Merging with the indigenous peoples, they gave rise to the Balts, a distinct Indo-European ethnic group whose descendants are the present-day Lithuanian and Latvian nations and the former Old Prussians.

This and cognate words in other Indo-European languages ultimately stem from the Proto-Indo-European language root * wódr ̥ which also gave rise to the English word " water ".

Moreover the European languages which gave rise to the creole languages of European colonies all belong to the same subgroup of Western Indo-European and have highly convergent grammars ; to the point that Whorf joined them into a single Standard Average European language group.

Yet, the Indo-European dictionary of Julius Pokorny connects the word to a PIE root meaning " rise, protrude ", in the sense of " excellent, egregious ".

The Hattian civilization may also have given rise to the Hittite legend of Teshub and Illuyankas, although similar legends are found in many Indo-European cultures ( Indra and Vrtra, Zeus and Typhon, Thor and Jörmungandr, Sigurd and Fafnir, and even the medieval Saint George and the Dragon ).

The main characteristic of this Prakrit is the replacement of ś ( শ ) and ṣ ( ষ ) by s ( স ), which is contrary to the Vararuci's rule for Magadhi Prakrit which warrants that ṣ and s are replaced by ś. Linguists claim this apabhramsa gave rise to various eastern Indo-European languages like modern Assamese and felt its presence in the form of Kamrupi and North Bengali.

The " field " aspect is related to Indo-European * meg ( h )- ( palatal g ), " big ", giving rise to the translation " the great one " and the conclusion that Mogons might be a mountain god.

** The Nomadic Hunter-gatherers of the R Haplogroup ( characterized by the M173 mutation in the Y chromosome ) that had taken refuge during the Last Ice Age in the Steppes of southern Ukraine and Russia ( and had allegedly developed the M17 mutation, originating the R1a Haplogroup ), are believed to have given rise to the Proto-Indo-European cultures ( predecessors of the Indo-European population and their languages ), such as the Kurgan culture.

The comparative rise of China, India, and other developing countries also contributed to their growing clout in international fora.

The history of molecular evolution starts in the early 20th century with " comparative biochemistry ", but the field of molecular evolution came into its own in the 1960s and 1970s, following the rise of molecular biology.

Although R v Scully ( 1824 ) 171 ER 1213 held that it was not justifiable to shoot an intruder merely to arrest him, on the facts, “ the life of the prisoner was threatened, and if he considered his life in actual danger, he was justified in shooting the deceased as he had done ; but if, not considering his own life in danger, he rashly shot this man, who was only a trespasser, he would be guilty of manslaughter .” See self-defence ( Australia ) for a comparative view on whether the use of excessive force causing death should give rise to a mitigatory defence and " Reform " below.

The almost complete absence of any mention of Menes in the archaeological record, and the comparative wealth of evidence of Narmer, a protodynastic figure credited by posterity and in the archaeological record with a firm claim to the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, has given rise to a theory identifying Menes with Narmer.

:* Arnold J. Toynbee: Toynbee wrote a similar comparative study of the rise and decline of civilizations, A Study of History, somewhat concurrently with Spengler, which was released much later, around the conclusion of World War II.

It is Dutt's description which gave rise to one misnomer for Black Shuck as " Old Snarleyow "; in the context of his description it is a comparative to Frederick Marryat's 1837 novel Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend, which tells the tale of a troublesome ship's dog.

The early versions produced before 1967 used a split front windshield ( giving rise to the nickname " Splitty "), and their comparative rarity has led to their becoming sought after by collectors and enthusiasts.

In this graph, comparative statics shows an increase in demand causing a rise in price and quantity.

The comparative dimension of nihonron or discourse on the nation of Japan assumed seminal depth in the 16th. century, towards the end of the Sengoku period ( 戦国時代: Warring States Period ) ( 1482 – 1558 ) and the subsequent Azuchi-Momoyama (( 安土桃山 ) age ( 1568 – 1615 ), when European contacts with Japan gave rise to a considerable literature by travelers and foreign missionaries on the Japanese, their culture, behavior, and patterns of thinking.

His work on Cantometrics gave rise to further comparative studies of aspects of human communication in relation to culture, including: Choreometrics, Parlametrics, Phonotactics ( an analysis of vowel frequency in speech ), and Minutage ( a study of breath management ).

The book made a comparative study of early Greek historiography down to the time of Herodotus, and various genres of Mesopotamian, Hittite, Egyptian and Levantine historiography as background for understanding the rise of historiography in ancient Israel.

Besides many pseudoscientific comparisons, the appearance of long-range linguistics gave rise to several attempts to connect Basque with geographically very distant language families.

The new linguistic turn, through the rise of semiotics as well as of structural linguistics, brought to the fore a new interest in figures of speech as signs, the metaphor in particular ( in the works of Roman Jakobson, Michel Charles, Gérard Genette ) while famed Structuralist Roland Barthes, a classicist by training, perceived how some basic elements of rhetoric could be of use in the study of narratives, fashion and ideology.

The 1960s saw the rise of many new fields in linguistics, such as Noam Chomsky's generative grammar, William Labov's sociolinguistics, Michael Halliday's systemic functional linguistics and also modern psycholinguistics.

Anthropological linguistics studies links between their languages and the ecosystems they lived in, which gave rise to their knowledge distinctions.

This light that is released can be absorbed by other molecules in solution to give rise to molecular vibrations or rotations, which gives rise to the classical understanding of heat.

In the meantime, Germanic mysticism in Germany and Switzerland had developed into baroque forms such as Guido von List's " Armanism ", from the 1900s merging into antisemitic and national mysticist ( völkisch ) currents, notably with Lanz von Liebenfels ' Guido von List Society and Ostara magazine, which with the rise of Nazism were partially absorbed into Nazi occultism.

Later antiquity saw the rise of the Nabatean kingdom with its capital at Petra, which was a border, client state of the Roman Empire absorbed into the Empire in 103 CE, and the ancient city of Saltus.

During the day heat gains from the sun, the occupants of the building, and any electrical lighting and equipment, causes the air temperatures within the space to increase but this heat is absorbed by the exposed concrete slab above, thus limiting the temperature rise within the space to be within acceptable levels for human thermal comfort.

Eventually, Wadjet's position as patron led to her being identified as the more powerful goddess Mut, whose cult had come to the fore in conjunction with rise of the cult of Amun, and eventually being absorbed into her as the Mut-Wadjet-Bast triad.

It is also the disavowed shame of the narcissist that is often absorbed by, or projected onto the schizoid ; thus giving rise to the experience of psychic invasion, and the development of sense of vulnerability to intrusiveness.

Also, in a large storm event, the water table below the porous pavement can rise to a higher level preventing the precipitation from being absorbed into the ground.

Because the smoke was black, it absorbed heat from the sun and tended to rise above the water.

They would rise once more to join the campaigns of Pyrrhus on behalf of the Greeks of southern Italy, but with his defeat all the peoples of Italy were absorbed into the Roman commonwealth.

With the rise of popularity of motor cars in the 1960s and 70s, the MMTB ( which was absorbed by the new Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1983 ) was focusing its attention elsewhere.

The microwave power is absorbed in a load whose temperature rise is measured by the thermocouple.

As a photon travels through a vacuum it interacts with these virtual particles, and is absorbed by them to give rise to a real electron-positron pair.

and later merged with the post-urban Harappans during the late Harappans Jhukar phase ; the Swat IV that co-founded the Harappan Cemetery H phase in Punjab and the Rigvedic Indo-Aryans of Swat V that later absorbed the Cemetery H people and gave rise to the Painted Grey Ware culture.

We did not dare speak to so exalted a being, but Norton aimed his camera and shot him, so to speak, on the rise, the split second between the halt and the turn.

One Kohnstamm-positive subject who had both arms rise while being tested in the naive condition described her subjective experience as follows: `` You feel they're going up and you're on a stage and it's not right for them to do so and then you think maybe that's what's supposed to happen ''.

It was foggy that evening, but the path to my house was so well grooved that I could feel my way, accustomed as I was to the dense mists that rise from the sun-warmed palisades of the river and sometimes last for days.

The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.

LOB % tends to regress toward 70 – 72 % over time, so unusually high or low percentages could indicate that pitcher's ERA could be expected to rise or lower in the future.

His works were so influential that late in the 9th century Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, wrote that " God, the orderer of natures, who raised the Sun from the East on the fourth day of Creation, in the sixth day of the world has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth ".

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

Although 64 is the highest number depicted on the doubling cube, the stakes may rise to 128, 256, and so on.

It is so well known for this side effect that it has given rise to the expression " mad as a hatter ".

" He said, " we recognize the imperative need for this development ... the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist ... Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Due to capacity constraints, this increase in output will eventually become so small that the price of the good will rise.

His reactions to the prevailing theories and practices in education, corrections made to these philosophies, and recommendations to teachers and administrators to embrace “ the new education ,” provide a vital account of the history of the development of educational thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 4 Dewey placed so called pragmatism above moral absolutes and helped give rise to situational ethics.

This formulation, in turn, laid the groundwork for an independent view of the church as a " sacred society " distinct from civil society, which was so crucial for the development of local churches as non-established entities outside England, and gave direct rise to the Catholic Revival and disestablishmentarianism within England.

Thus, as a simple instance posed by Hume, we cannot know with certainty by inductive reasoning that the sun will continue to rise in the East, but instead come to expect it to do so because it has repeatedly done so in the past.

His meteoric rise and fall were clearly the stuff of legend, and few if any players, either before or since, have had such an immense impact over so brief a period.

Pope Boniface VIII his extraordinary shortness of stature led the pope to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the cardinals ; and that he had a daughter, Novella, so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful, that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students.

The study of field extensions ( and polynomials which give rise to them ) via Galois groups is called Galois theory, so named in honor of Évariste Galois who first discovered them.

Rocks there do not deform so easily: for magma to rise as a pluton it would expend far too much energy in heating wall rocks, thus cooling and solidifying before reaching higher levels within the crust.

As interest increases, so has the rise of commercial outdoor pursuits, with outdoor kit stores opening up in large numbers and thriving, as well as outdoor pursuits journalism and magazines, both on paper and online.

According to Aristotle, these four terrestrial elements are capable of inter-transformation and move toward their natural place, so a stone falls downward toward the center of the cosmos, but flames rise upward toward the circumference.

Scenes from ancient history had been popular in the early Renaissance, and once again became common in the Baroque and Rococo periods, and still more so with the rise of Neoclassicism.

After an interregnum of a hundred or so years, Assyria began to expand once more with the rise of the Neo Assyrian Empire.