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turn and English
The turn of the century, or to be more precise, the two decades preceeding and following it, marks a great change in the history of early English scholarship.
These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.
The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.
The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).
Rather, in modern times, the various autonomous houses have formed themselves loosely into congregations ( for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines ) that in turn are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief " Summum semper " on July 12, 1883.
First attested in English 1664, the word " celery " derives from the French céleri, in turn from Italian seleri, the plural of selero, which comes from Late Latin selinon, the latinisation of the Greek σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".
First attested in English in the mid-15th century, the word carat came from Middle French carat, in turn from Italian carato, which came from Arabic qīrāṭ ( قيراط ), which came from Greek kerátion ( κεράτιον ) meaning carob seed ( literally " small horn ")
The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which in turn comes from Latin draconem ( nominative draco ) meaning " huge serpent, dragon ," from the Greek word δράκων, drakon ( genitive drakontos, δράκοντος ) " serpent, giant seafish ", which is believed to have come from an earlier stem drak -, a stem of derkesthai, " to see clearly ," from Proto-Indo-European derk-" to see " or " the one with the ( deadly ) glance.
Other copula-substitutes in English include taste, feel, smell, sound, grow, remain, stay, and turn, among others a user of E-prime might use instead of to be.
For example, Finnish tie means " road "; the pronunciation is, unlike English, which in turn means " or " in Finnish.
The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.
The region in turn gave the English name " Sea of Galilee " to the Kinneret ( Numbers 34: 11, etc.
In 1805, Napoleon planned to invade Britain, but a renewed British alliance with Russia and Austria ( Third Coalition ), forced him to turn his attention towards the continent, while at the same time failure to lure the superior British fleet away from the English Channel, ending in a decisive French defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October put an end to hopes of an invasion of Britain.
The English word house derives directly from the Old English Hus meaning " dwelling, shelter, home, house ," which in turn derives from Proto-Germanic Khusan ( reconstructed by etymological analysis ) which is of unknown origin.
The modern English word heaven is derived from the earlier ( Middle English ) spelling heven ( attested 1159 ); this in turn was developed from the previous Old English form heofon.
The verb to inoculate is from Middle English inoculaten, which meant " to graft a scion " ( a plant part to be grafted onto another plant ); which in turn is from Latin inoculare, past participle inoculat -.
The word is derived from Old English īs, which in turn stems from Proto-Germanic isaz.
By the turn of the twentieth century it had begun to be displaced by the shorter and purely Arabic term Islam and by 1938, when Orientalist scholars completed The Encyclopaedia of Islam, seems to have virtually disappeared from the English language.
To correspond with the subdivisions of the English shires into honors or baronies, Irish counties were granted out to the Anglo-Norman noblemen in cantreds, later known as baronies, which in turn were subdivided, as in England, into civil parishes and townlands.
The Russian transliteration of his name Ио ́ сиф Виссарио ́ нович Джугашви ́ ли is in turn transliterated to English as " Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ".

turn and novelist
Matches of jeu provençal at the turn of the century are memorably described in the memoirs of novelist Marcel Pagnol.
Dresser, the elder brother of novelist Theodore Dreiser, was a popular songwriter of the turn of the 20th century.
She created a scandal at the turn of the 20th century by her lesbian affair with the French novelist Colette who had taken up work in the music halls of Paris in 1906 under her wing, and with whom she became romantically involved.
Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer argued that by triggering these educational reforms, Max Havelaar was in turn responsible for the nationalist movement that ended Dutch colonialism in Indonesia after 1945, and which was instrumental in the call for decolonization in Africa and elsewhere in the world.
His vacation house in the city, located in Copou area and known locally as Casa cu turn (" The House with a Tower "), was the residence of composer George Enescu for part of the Romanian Campaign, and, in 1930, was purchased by the novelist Mihail Sadoveanu ( in 1980, it became a museum dedicated to Sadoveanu's memory ).
As nothing proves that the anonymous writer of the Gesta had factual knowledge of the real conditions of the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries, he could have turned only to his own imagination when he outlined the history of the Magyar Conquest ( his methods are those of a historical novelist ).
Silkin, in turn, sublet rooms to, among others, David Mercer, later a prolific TV and West End dramatist, and Malcolm Ross-Macdonald, then a diploma student at the Slade and later a novelist ; his first novel, The Big Waves ( Cape, 1962 ) is a roman à clef of life in that flat, in which Silkin features as Somes Arenstein.
Peirce traveled the country interviewing soldiers about their experiences and worked with novelist and screenwriter Mark Richard to turn the research into a screenplay.
" The very rhythm of her opening pages at once puts us under the spell of a writer who is not merely jotting down her days but establishing, as a novelist does, an atmosphere, an emotional tone ... Starting out with situations or relationships of which she cannot know the outcome, she takes advantage of the actual turn of events to develop them and round them out as if she were molding a novel.
In late 1957, now separated and living with Dilys Johnson ( whom he later married ), he rented a room in a flat at 10 Compayne Gardens, London NW3, that was rented, in turn, by the poet Jon Silkin from Rudolf Nassauer ( a wine merchant, poet, and novelist ) and his wife, Bernice Rubens, who was later winner of the 1970 Booker Prize.

turn and poet
This facilitates memorization, as the poet is recalling each episode in turn and using the completed episodes to recreate the entire epic as he performs it.
" Breton included the idea of the startling juxtapositions in his 1924 manifesto, taking it in turn from a 1918 essay by poet Pierre Reverdy, which said: " a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities.
Their eldest son, John " Mad Jack " Byron, in turn fathered the poet George Gordon Byron, the future 6th Baron Byron
Akhmatova had a relationship with the mosaic artist and poet Boris Anrep ; many of her poems in the period are about him and he in turn created mosaics in which she is featured.
The most famous prisoners ( and victims ) included Queen Marie Antoinette, the poet André Chénier, Charlotte Corday, Madame Élisabeth, Madame du Barry and the Girondins, who were condemned by Georges Danton, who was in turn condemned by Robespierre, who was himself condemned and executed in a final bout of bloodletting.
Verlaine's concept of the poète maudit in turn borrows from Baudelaire, who opened his collection Les fleurs du mal with the poem Bénédiction, which describes a poet whose internal serenity remains undisturbed by the contempt of the people surrounding him.
At the turn of the 19th century, by estimate of the Kashubian poet Hieronim Derdowski, who settled in Winona and edited the newspaper Wiarus, 4, 000 of Winona's 5, 000 Poles ( out of its total population of nearly 20, 000 ) were Kashubians.
He is one of our finest poets, a human poet in a world that threatens to turn man into an object.
She visited the poet twice at his Lake Garda villa, seeking to paint his portrait ; he in turn was set on seduction.
Often, the beginning of the third quatrain marks the volta (" turn "), or the line in which the mood of the poem shifts, and the poet expresses a revelation or epiphany.
The term was first used by the Romantic poet John Keats to critique those who sought to categorize all experience and phenomena and turn them into a theory of knowledge.
Composers who have written settings of the Stabat Mater include Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Antonio Vivaldi, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ; of the latter's setting, the German poet Tieck opined: " I had to turn away to hide my tears, especially at the place, ' Vidit suum dulcem natum '".
Chaucers ' source was Il Filostrato by Boccaccio, which in turn derives from a 12th-century French poet, Benoit de Siante-Maure Theodore Morrison, " The Portable Chaucer ," The Viking Press, 1949., p. 363.
In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid ( Metamorphoses 4. 770 ), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, " the jealous aspiration of many suitors ," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she was caught being raped by the " Lord of the Sea " Poseidon in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone.
An example of Arabic political satire included another 10th century poet Jarir satirizing Farazdaq as " a transgressor of the Sharia " and later Arabic poets in turn using the term " Farazdaq-like " as a form of political satire.
So many composers in the French tradition wrote Romances sans paroles, " Romances without words ", from the 1840s onwards that the radical poet Paul Verlaine in turn published a collection of his impressionistic poems as Romances sans paroles ( 1874 ).
Author and poet Arne Garborg grew up in the traditional lowland landscape of Jæren, and in several of his works he describes the landscape and its inhabitants around the turn of the 19th century. Further inwards, the lowland meets the rocky areas.
Accordingly, many of the reformists called for written literature to turn away from the Divan tradition and towards the folk tradition ; this call for change can be seen, for example, in a famous statement by the poet and reformist Ziya Pasha ( 1829 – 1880 ):
Even if the poet did not know Shylock and did not like him, the justice of his genius took the part of his black obstacle the obstacle to the plans of the young lovers and, out of its prodigal and endless wealth, gave Shylock human greatness and spiritual strength and a great loneliness — things that turn Antonio's gay, singing, sponging, money-borrowing, girl-stealing, marriage-contriving circle into petty idlers and sneak thieves.
Southey's poem in turn inspired twentieth-century poet Paul Muldoon to write Madoc: A Mystery, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1992.
Przerwa Tetmajer was primarily a lyrical poet who articulated the birth pangs of modernism at the turn of the century, but he will be best remembered for his erotic verse and for poems evoking his beloved Tatra mountains.
Abbas in turn was the grandson of Hali, the chief protégé of Urdu poet, Ghalib.
* June 13-Huge crowds turn out at Drumcliffe Churchyard, County Sligo to honour the poet W. B.
By the turn of the century, Gifford's efforts as a poet were all but over, and he spent the rest of his career as an editor, scholar, and occasional critic.

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