* Grzega, Joachim: “ On the Description of National Varieties: Examples from ( German and Austrian ) German and ( English and American ) English .” In: Linguistik Online 7 ( 2000 ).

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Examples of these sounds familiar to English speakers are the tsk!

Examples from English are the diaeresis in naïve and Noël, which show that the vowel with the diaeresis mark is pronounced separately from the preceding vowel ; the acute and grave accents, which can indicate that a final vowel is to be pronounced, as in saké and poetic breathèd, and the cedilla under the " c " in the borrowed French word façade, which shows it is pronounced rather than.

Examples of goddesses attested in Norse mythology include Frigg ( wife of Odin, and the Anglo-Saxon version of whom is namesake of the modern English weekday Friday ), Skaði ( one time wife of Njörðr ), Njerda ( Scandinavian name of Nerthus ), that also was married to Njörðr during Bronze Age, Freyja ( wife of Óðr ), Sif ( wife of Thor ), Gerðr ( wife of Freyr ), and personifications such as Jörð ( earth ), Sól ( the sun ), and Nótt ( night ).

* Grzega, Joachim ( 2005 ), “ Towards Global English via Basic Global English ( BGE ): Socioeconomic and Pedagogic Ideas for a European and Global Language ( with Didactic Examples for Native Speakers of German ), Journal for EuroLinguistiX 2: 65-164.

Examples include English ( voiceless ) and ( voiced ).

Examples include English.

Examples include English / f, s / ( voiceless ), / v, z / ( voiced ), etc.

Examples include English / w / and / r /.

Examples are the Viking attacks across Europe, or the highly destructive English chevauchées across northern France during the Hundred Years ' War.

Examples of nasals in English are and, in words such as nose and mouth.

Examples of such restrictions in English include:

Examples: Latin humilis > English humble ; in Slavic an-l-intrudes between a labial and a following yod, as * zemya " land " > Russ.

Examples in English are the verbal nouns formed from verbs by the addition of-ing, nouns formed from verbs using other suffixes such as organization and discovery, agent nouns formed from verbs usually with the suffix-er or-or, as in actor and worker, feminine forms of nouns such as actress, lioness, nouns formed from adjectives such as happiness, and many other types.

Examples include the English language names for days of the week:

Examples include suckers ( known as boiled sweets in British English ), lollipops, jawbreakers ( or gobstoppers ), lemon drops, peppermint drops and disks, candy canes, rock candy, etc.

Examples are " bottle " ( from English ), " get stuck ", and " little bone ".

Examples are " nothing ", " chin ", " 25 cents " ( from English " pound ").

Examples of Japanese loan words ( some which had in turn been borrowed from English ) used in Taiwanese include piān-só ͘ ( 便所 ) for " toilet ", pêⁿ ( 坪 ) for a Japanese unit of land, ka-suh ( ガス ) for " gas ", o ͘- tó ͘- bái ( オートバイ " autobike ") for motorcycle.

Examples include words such as mearas ( another Old English word for " horses ", which survives into Modern English as " mares ") and éored.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), the word comes ultimately from Greek (, " accent of ' turning away ', or elision "), through Latin and French.

In Native English, elision comes naturally, and it is often described as " slurred " or " muted.

A series of changes that occurred as English itself changed, together with some simplifications and elision, resulted in the name Cheshire, as it occurs today.

Similarly, synalepha most often refers to elision ( as in English contraction ), but it can also refer to coalescence by other metaplasms: synizesis, synaeresis, or crasis.