In Modern Greek, vowel length has been lost, and all instances of alpha represent the short.

Abraham ( Hebrew:, Modern:, Greek: Αβραάμ ( Avraam ), Tiberian:, Ashkenazi: Avrohom or Avruhom,

Aeolus (, Aiolos, Modern Greek: ), a name shared by three mythic characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.

Aegospotami ( Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί ) or Aegospotamos ( i. e. Goat Streams ) is the ancient Greek name for a small river issuing into the Hellespont ( Modern Turkish Çanakkale Boğazı ), northeast of Sestos.

Modern drawing of the Phalanx formation employed by Greek hoplite s

In turn, the classical languages continued, Latin evolved into the Romance languages and Ancient Greek into Modern Greek and its dialects.

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 ".

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb ; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the Kouvouklion ( Kουβούκλιον ; Modern Greek for small compartment ) or Aedicule ( from Latin: aediculum, small building ), which supposedly encloses this tomb, although it is not currently possible to verify the claim, as the remains are completely enveloped by a marble sheath.

Apollo's sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 776 BC athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic ( or stephanitic ) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics.

Delta ( uppercase Δ, lowercase δ ; Délta ; Modern Greek ) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.

In Modern Greek, it represents a voiced dental fricative, like the " th " in " that " or " this ".

Modern scholarship tends to favour a Syriac origin ; but even so, the exercise must have been repeated in Greek very shortly afterwards — probably by Tatian himself.

** The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis ( Greek verse, composed 1924-1938 )

Thus in Modern Greek, Eta is pronounced and represents the sound / i / ( a close front unrounded vowel ).

In Modern Greek the letter, pronounced, represents a close front unrounded vowel,.

* Classical Greek and then Koine Greek in the Mediterranean Basin from the Athenian empire to the eastern Roman Empire, being replaced by Modern Greek.

* Koine Greek and Modern Greek, in the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire and other parts of the Balkans south of the Jireček Line.

Modern usage uses a ' ten-foot ' pole, but the earliest instances in print involve a forty-foot pole, which is improbably long for operating a barge.

Modern Esperanto usage may in fact depart from that originally described in the Fundamento, though the differences are largely semantic ( involving changed meaning of words ) rather than grammatical or phonological.

Modern usage of the term intellectual property goes back at least as far as 1867 with the founding of the North German Confederation whose constitution granted legislative power over the protection of intellectual property ( Schutz des geistigen Eigentums ) to the confederation.

Modern usage avoids the fallacy by acknowledging the possibility of this middle ground.

* Modern usage includes a logically valid form, in which a minor action causes a significant impact through a long chain of logical relationships.

Modern codification of the rule in English can be found in the mid 18th century with Anne Fisher's A New Grammar, generic use of the pronoun he has been preferred ( but not required ) in such constructions by many contemporary grammar and usage books.

Modern usage derives primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there.

Modern usage of the term " computer simulation " may encompass virtually any computer-based representation.

Modern usage may include substances rich in artificial sweeteners as well.

Modern usage of ' diocese ' tends to refer to the sphere of a bishop's jurisdiction.

In Modern Hebrew usage, an Israelite is, broadly speaking, a lay member of the Jewish ethnoreligious community, as opposed to the priestly orders of Kohanim and Levites.

Modern usage for " amphitheater " can embrace theatre-style stages with the audience only on one side, theatres in the round, and stadiums.

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), by Henry Watson Fowler ( 1858 – 1933 ), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing.

Before writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry Fowler and his younger brother, Francis George Fowler ( 1871 – 1918 ), wrote and revised The King's English ( 1906 ), a grammar and usage guide later superseded by this book in the 1930s.

Historically, the substantive and editorial differences among the first-edition and the third-edition versions is that the former, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), is a prescriptive style guide to clear and expressive writing, whilst the latter versions, The New Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 1996 ) and Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 2004 ), are descriptive usage guides to spoken and written English.

The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica states that " he spelling ' tyre ' is not now accepted by the best English authorities, and is unrecognized in the US ", while Fowler's Modern English Usage of 1926 says that " there is nothing to be said for ' tyre ', which is etymologically wrong, as well as needlessly divergent from our own British older & the present American usage ".

Modern Icelandic usage generally excludes the latter, which is instead represented with the letter eth ( Ð, ð ), however the pronunciation of words beginning with a þ often depends on that word's position within a sentence, being pronounced if the word is at the beginning of a sentence but otherwise.

The noun damnation itself is mostly reserved for the religious sense in Modern English, while condemnation remains common in secular usage.

Modern vernacular usage has often extended the term " stained glass " to include domestic leadlight and objets d ' art created from came glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

A distinguishing feature of Yeshivish is that its speakers knowingly apply highly technical and literal written language to a colloquial language and in common day usage, similar to Modern Hebrew, for example:

Modern usage is more specific, referring almost exclusively to the hand-tool pressure flaking process pictured to the right.

) This usage was routine in the Venetian-ruled Aegean in the Early Modern era.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

The Cubs have won 10 of those pennants in Major League Baseball's Modern Era ( 1901 – present ), while all 18 of the Cardinals ' have been won since 1901.

Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.

Modern Nationalism, as developed especially since the French Revolution, has made the distinction between " language " and " dialect " an issue of great political importance.

Modern distance education initially relied on the development of postal services in the 19th century and has been practised at least since Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence in the 1840s.

Modern devices are already in the nanometer regime, with sub-100 nm processing having been standard since the early 2000s.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

Modern warfare since the late Renaissance has relied upon firearms, with wide-ranging effects on military history and history in general.

** Modern Egypt: since 1882

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A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1300.

A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1200.

" Modern French orders of knighthood include women, for example the Légion d ' Honneur ( Legion of Honor ) since the mid-19th c., but they are usually called chevaliers.

The question of whether or not existence is a predicate has been discussed since the Early Modern period, not least in relation to the ontological argument for the existence of God.

* Dent, David W. Encyclopedia of Modern Mexico ( 2002 ); since 1940 ; 376pp

Such a bed trick has been a dramatic convention since antiquity and was used more than 40 times by every major playwright in the Early Modern theatre era except for Ben Jonson.

In Łukasiewicz 1951 book, Aristotle ’ s Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic, he mentions that the principle of his notation was to write the functors before the arguments to avoid brackets and that he had employed his notation in his logical papers since 1929.

Ethnic minorities declined since the beginning of the Modern Age, like the Polabs, Sorbs and even the once important Low Germans had to assimilate themselves.

Modern computer-monitors typically display about 72 to 130 pixels per inch ( PPI ), and some modern consumer printers can resolve 2400 dots per inch ( DPI ) or more ; determining the most appropriate image resolution for a given printer-resolution can pose difficulties, since printed output may have a greater level of detail than a viewer can discern on a monitor.

There have been numerous museum shows of Bearden's work since then, including a 1971 show at the Museum of Modern Art entitled Prevalence of Ritual, an exhibition of his highly prized prints entitled A Graphic Odyssey showing the work of the last fifteen years of his life, and the 2005 National Gallery of Art retrospective entitled The Art of Romare Bearden.

Modern Russian calculators MK-161 and MK-152, designed and manufactured in Novosibirsk since 2007 and offered by Semico, are backward compatible with them.

Shipbuilding # Modern worldwide shipbuilding industry | Shipbuilding is a flagship industry of South Korea that boomed since the 1960s.

Modern sociology has, since Max Weber, often been preoccupied with the problem of authority in secularized societies and with secularization as a sociological or historical process.

Modern installations of such equipment may use mice instead, since most people now already know how to use one.