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Some Greek words have given rise to etymological doublets, being borrowed both through an organic, indirect route, and a learned, direct route into English: anthem and antiphon ( αντίφωνα ), frantic and frenetic ( φρενετικός ), butter and butyr ( ic ) ( βούτυρον ), bishop and episcop ( al ) ( επίσκοπος ), balm and balsam ( βάλσαμον, probably itself a borrowing from Semitic ), blame and blasphemy ( βλασφήμος ), box and pyx ( is ) ( πύξις ), choir and chorus ( χορός ), trivet and tripod ( τρίπους / τρίποδ -), slander and scandal ( σκάνδαλον ), oil, olive, oleum, and elaeo-( έλαιον ); almond and amygdala ( αμυγδάλη ); dram and drachma ( δραχμή ); paper and papyrus ( πάπυρος ); carat and keratin ( κέρας, κέρατ -).
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Some heroes of Greek legend are allowed to visit the underworld.
Some of Boötes ' stars were traditionally described as representing the club ( Greek, Κολλοροβος ) of Boötes.
Some regard it as an ultimate truth, or as the fount of all things which lies beyond the " three realms " ( Sanskrit: tridhatu ) and the " wheel of becoming " ( Sanskrit: bhavacakra ), somewhat like the pagan Greek and Christian logos: this is known as Dharmakaya ( Sanskrit ).
Some manual representations of non-Roman scripts such as Chinese, Japanese, Devanagari, Hebrew, Greek, Thai and Russian alphabets are based to some extent on the one-handed Latin alphabet described above.
Some ancient authorities in the doxographic tradition credited the Greek philosophers Pythagoras, in the 6th century BC, and Parmenides, in the 5th, with recognizing that the Earth is spherical.
Some Indo-Europeanists claim that Greek seems to be most closely related to Armenian ( see also Graeco-Armenian ) and the Indo-Iranian languages ( see Graeco-Aryan ) among the living Indo-European languages.
Some Muslim scholars, have noted the similarity to the Greek " peryklytos " which can be translated as " admirable one "; or in Arabic, " Ahmad ".
Some Greeks grew rich as merchants and shipowners, and Piraeus became a major port, but little of this wealth found its way to the Greek peasantry.
Some anti-Judean allegations ascribed by Josephus to the Greek writer Apion, and myths accredited to Manetho are also addressed.
Some believe the name came from an island off the Greek coast, where it is believed that the mythical Icarus was buried, which resembled Failaka.
Some, such as Greek, Italian and Serbo-Croatian, have more than two liquid phonemes.
Some of the earliest recorded speculations linked mind ( sometimes described as identical with soul or spirit ) to theories concerning both life after death, and cosmological and natural order, for example in the doctrines of Zoroaster, the Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek, Indian and, later, Islamic and medieval European philosophers.
Some Linear B tablets had been discovered on the Greek mainland, and there was reason to believe that some of the chains of symbols he had encountered on the Cretan tablets were names.
* Some modern dictionaries and coursebooks of classical Greek and Latin, where the macron is sometimes used in conjunction with the breve.
Some scholars note the similarity between Machiavellian and the Greek historian Thucydides, since both emphasized power politics.
Some two dozen other Greek and Roman authors retold and further embellished the Prometheus myth into the 4th century AD.
In the article “ Bellum Philippicum: Some Roman and Greek Views Concerning the Causes of the Second Macedonian War ”, E. J. Bickerman writes that “ the causes of the fateful war … were vividly debated among both Greeks and Romans ”.
Some fruitless attempts were made towards unification with the Greek Church.
Some scholars have translated the Greek concept of " politeia " as " republic ," but most modern scholars reject this idea.
Some of this history, composed more than 500 years after the events, with scant written sources to rely on, may be fictitious reconstruction-nonetheless the influence of Greek ideas on governance is evident in the organisation of the Roman Republic.
( Some of these other Greek versions are known from Origen's Hexapla, a comparison of six translations in adjacent columns, now almost wholly lost.
Some of these " apocryphal " books ( e. g. the Wisdom of Solomon, and the second book of Maccabees ) were not translated, but composed directly in Greek.
Some offer a classical education ( Latin, Greek ), while others concentrate on economics and the like.
Some fifteen works in Latin or Greek are lost, some as recently as the 9th century ( De Paradiso, De superstitione saeculi, De carne et anima were all extant in the now damaged Codex Agobardinus in 814 AD ).
* Some of the northern Greek cities, including Athens, revolt against the Macedonian regent, Antipater, following the news of Alexander's death.
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Some of them ignored the texts and had apparently memorized the words long ago.
Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.
Some words are known in both languages, however with different meanings:
Some servers attempt to improve on this using statistical techniques that try to combine only words that appear together often.
Some scholars have objected to the language of the speeches as too Lukan in style to reflect anyone else's words.
Some other early Latter-day Saint leaders, including Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and Elizabeth Ann Whitney claimed to have received several words in the Adamic language in revelations.
* Some of the words and phrases of the prayer have to be inferred from the context because the text is fragmentary.
Some Buddhist scholars assert words are inadequate to describe the goal of the Buddhist path, but concerning the usefulness of words in the path itself, schools differ radically.
Some, like Grafton Elliot Smith, argued that different groups must somehow have learned from one another, however indirectly ; in other words, they argued that cultural traits spread from one place to another, or " diffused ".
This may be the case for words such as church in rhotic dialects of English, although phoneticians differ in whether they consider this to be a syllabic consonant,, or a rhotic vowel,: Some distinguish an approximant that corresponds to a vowel, for rural as or ; others see these as a single phoneme,.
Some of the taboo words and topics are mentioned daily on television and other forms of visual media.
Orthographic conventions treat clitics in different ways: Some are written as separate words, some are written as one word with their hosts, and some are attached to their hosts, but set off by punctuation ( a hyphen or an apostrophe, for example ).
Some comics note, in the words of Barry Allen, that " Clark slouches, wears clothes two sizes too big and raises his voice an octave ," making him appear shorter and overweight instead of muscular.
Some prefer the Wade-based Taoism because it is more familiar than Daoism and because the borrowing is a fully assimilated English word anyway ; such words are generally unaffected by later systems of romanization.
Some sources say Poe's final words were " Lord help my poor soul.
Some evidence confirming 1466 can be found in Erasmus's own words: of twenty-three statements Erasmus made about his age, all but one of the first fifteen indicate 1466.
Some words were shortened ( győzedelem > győzelem, ' triumph ' or ' victory '); a number of dialectal words spread nationally ( e. g. cselleng ' dawdle '); extinct words were reintroduced ( dísz ' décor '); a wide range of expressions was coined using the various derivative suffixes ; and some other, less frequently used methods of expanding the language were utilized.
Some proponents of this view of language have advocated a formal approach which studies language structure by identifying its basic elements and then formulating a formal account of the rules according to which the elements combine to form words and sentences.
Some words have even leaked into common, everyday use by the masses ; an example is the word louf or loufoque, meaning unsound of mind.
Some earlier Latin poets tried to make up for this deficiency by creating new compound words, as the Greeks had done.
Some use " lexicology " as a synonym for theoretical lexicography ; others use it to mean a branch of linguistics pertaining to the inventory of words in a particular language.
In the 19th century the agnostic Robert G. Ingersoll wrote "... that all the ignorant, infamous, heartless, hideous things recorded in the ' inspired ' Pentateuch are not the words of God, but simply ' Some Mistakes of Moses '".
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