The word acre is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning " open field ", cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός ( agros ).

Bokmål is based on Danish unlike the other Norwegian language, Nynorsk, which is based on the Norwegian dialects, with Old Norwegian as an important reference point.

Stød generally occurs in words that have " accent 1 " in Swedish and Norwegian and that were monosyllabic in Old Norse, while no-stød occurs in words that have " accent 2 " in Swedish and Norwegian and that were polysyllabic in Old Norse.

A draugr, draug or ( Icelandic ) draugur ( original Old Norse plural draugar, as used here, not " draugrs "), or draugen ( Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, meaning " the draug "), also known as aptrganga (" afturgöngur " in modern Icelandic ) ( literally " after-walker ", or " one who walks after death ") is an undead creature from Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology.

Danish and Norwegian settlement made enough of an impact to leave significant traces in the English language ; many fundamental words in modern English are derived from Old Norse, though of the 100 most used words in English the vast majority are Old English in origin.

By the mid-16th century, the Old Norse language was unintelligible to Norwegian, Swedish or Danish readers.

Old Norse kenna ( Modern Icelandic kenna, Swedish känna, Danish kende, Norwegian kjenne or kjenna ) is cognate with Old English cennan, Old Frisian kenna, kanna, Old Saxon ( ant ) kennian ( Middle Dutch and Dutch kennen ), Old High German ( ir -, in -, pi -) chennan ( Middle High German and German kennen ), Gothic kannjan < Proto-Germanic * kannjanan, originally causative of * kunnanan “ to know ( how to )”, whence Modern English can ' to be able ' ( from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Modern English know and Latin-derived cognition ).

Kennings are virtually absent from the surviving corpus of continental West Germanic verse ; the Old Saxon Heliand contains only one example: lîk-hamo “ body-raiment ” = “ body ” ( Heliand 3453 b ), a compound which, in any case, is normal in West Germanic and North Germanic prose ( Old English līchama, Old High German lîchamo, lîchinamo, Dutch lichaam, Old Icelandic líkamr, líkami, Old Swedish līkhamber, Swedish lekamen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål legeme, Norwegian Nynorsk lekam ).

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

Before Payne loomed the Old Clubhouse, Seward's home, where Key had once been killed.

of their first engagement at Falling Waters after Old Jack's First Brigade had destroyed all the rolling stock of the B & O Railroad.

The readers of the Providence Daily Post, however, learned that it was generally conceded that `` Old Brown '' had a fair trial.

Old Sam's sixty-five years had reduced his value to $150 ; ;

Old man Arthur had put down the suitcase to open the front door.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

In fact, the neat balance of these pairs, and their subtle equilibrium, would have had special meaning in the minds of the Old Chinese.

The only thing unusual about the Old Man had long since happened.

Once the Old Man had had a wife.

The Old Man's very soul could have left him and flown down that street, but he wouldn't have had anyone know it.

Old Mr. Thom himself had stopped at the service station for a grease job, Wally confessed, and couldn't get one because there were cars on the pits waiting to be repaired.

At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

He applied this knowledge as preacher, concentrating especially on exegesis of the Old Testament, and his rhetorical abilities impressed Augustine of Hippo, who hitherto had thought poorly of Christian preachers.

One of them, Múnón, married Priam's daughter, Tróán, and had by her a son, Trór, to be pronounced Thor in Old Norse.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

The word is derived from the Greek ( antiphōna ) via Old English, a word which originally had the same meaning as antiphon.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

The name probably derives from the Old English bēd, or prayer ; if Bede was given the name at his birth, then his family had probably always planned for him to enter the clergy.

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.

Cordwain, once a synonym of cordovan ( through Old French cordewan ) meaning " from Córdoba " describes painted or gilded embossed leather hangings manufactured in panels and assembled for covering walls as an alternative to tapestry.

An alternative etymology derives the first part from Old English weri ( to wear ); the full form in this case would be glossed as wearer of wolf skin.

The family is thought to have an Old World origin ( but see Moyle ( 2005 ) for an alternative theory ), notwithstanding the current richness of the family, which is more diverse in the Neotropical New World.

It has also been called New Sarum to distinguish it from the original site of settlement to the north of the city at Old Sarum, but this alternative name is not in common use.

" However, as both his predecessor, Cerdic, and successor, Ceawlin, might have Celtic names, an alternative etymology has been postulated from " Cunorix " which would mean " hound-king " in Old British ( rendered as Cinir in Old Welsh, Kynyr in Middle Welsh ).

According to Cook, the toponym Lydney derives from the Old English * Lydan-eġ, ‘ Lludd ’ s Island .’ However, alternative etymologies of Lydney are offered in other sources.

The school system also operates Yadkin Success Academy, an alternative learning center on Old U. S. 421 in Yadkinville.

* Old US 27 serves as a scenic alternative to I-75.

The toy piano has been used extensively by alternative rock and post-rock bands such as Agitpop, Evanescence, Radiohead, Little Bang Theory, Warren Zevon, Tori Amos, Sigur Rós, Vampire Weekend, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Old Canes, and The Dresden Dolls.

While modern scholars and the Oxford English Dictionary state that the origin of the name Baphomet was a probable Old French version of " Mahomet ", alternative etymologies have also been proposed:

The Society of Biblical Literature's Handbook of Style, which is the standard for major academic journals like the Harvard Theological Review and conservative Protestant journals like the Bibliotheca Sacra and the Westminster Theological Journal, suggests that authors " be aware of the connotations of alternative expressions such as ... Hebrew Bible Old Testament " without prescribing the use of either.

The local alternative music training Company Gwallgofiaid now has over 12 bands under its umbrella based at their Center ' Cell ' at the Old Police Station in Park Square.

* Chase the Joker: An alternative version of Old Maid where the Joker card is used instead of the Ace.

Old kitchen gear purchased from thrift stores or garage sales may also be used in place of home items as an alternative to buying specialized ( and more expensive ) camping equipment.

An alternative account says that Elgin had initially considered the destruction of the Forbidden City, but fearing that it might interfere with the signing of the Convention of Beijing, which was where it was being negotiated, he opted for the destruction of the Old Summer Palace in its stead.

Tsargrad ( Old Church Slavonic: Цѣсарьградъ ; Church Slavonic ; Царьгра ̀ дъ, ; Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian and Slovene: Carigrad or Цариград, depending on their alphabets ( or Tsarigrad as an alternative Latin transliteration of Cyrillic ); ; ; ; also rendered as Czargrad and Tzargrad ; see Tsar ) is a Slavic name for the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, commonly known as the " Byzantine Empire ".

An alternative recording of the Hebridean Symphony ( together with the Old English Suite and Russian Scenes ) is available on Naxos, with the Czecho-Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra ( Kosice ) conducted by Adrian Leaper.

The name " Mercia " comes from the Old English for " boundary folk ", and the traditional interpretation was that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders, although P. Hunter Blair has argued an alternative interpretation that they emerged along the frontier between the Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria and the inhabitants of the River Trent valley.

An alternative hypothesis to account for this biogeographical puzzle, based in part on an estimated divergence date of 50 million years ago, is that these species are the descendants of a more widespread but now extinct lineage of Old World iguanids that migrated overland from the New World to Asia or Australia, and then dispersed by some combination of continental drift, rafting and / or land bridges to their present remote location.

The Old 97's are an alternative country band from Dallas, Texas.

Other characters include: Old Father Christmas ( who introduces some plays ), Beelzebub, Little Devil Doubt ( who demands money from the audience ), Robin Hood ( an alternative hero in the Cotswolds ), Galoshin ( a hero in Scotland ), etc.

The most popular hypothesis sees the name Beli as a Middle Welsh reflex of the Gaulish and Brittonic theonym Belenus ( also attested as a personal name ), but a more recent alternative is that proposed by the Celticist John Koch, who suggests that Beli derives from an Old Celtic name Belgius or Bolgios, borne by one of the chieftains who led the Gallic invasion of Macedonia in 280-279 BCE.

* Cædwalla of Wessex ( c. 659 – 689 ), King of Wessex ( Cædwalla is the Old English spelling of Cadwalla (< Brythonic * Katuwallios ), an alternative form of the same name.

An alternative for cars could be to take the B1192 / B1184 through Hubbert's Bridge and Sibsey, rejoining at Old Leake.