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The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").
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Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.
When the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.
In his mind he spoke simultaneously the English sentence and the Martian word and felt closer grokking.
The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.
The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.
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.
For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.
Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.
" English borrowed the word from Spanish in the early 18th century.
Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.
The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".
Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.
The word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard.
Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".
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The Latin-derived form of the word is " tecnicus ", from which the English words technique, technology, technical are derived.
The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).
The English word ' artiste ' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word ' artiste ' in French.
English and Alps
At first the French and English crusaders travelled together, but the armies split at Lyon, as Richard decided to go by sea, and Philip took the overland route through the Alps to Genoa.
Notwithstanding the activity of their predecessors, the members of the English Alpine Club have found scope for further exploits, amongst which may be reckoned the first ascents of the Aletschhorn and the Schreckhorn, and the still more arduous enterprise of crossing the range by passes, such as the Jungfraujoch and Eigerjoch, which are considered amongst the most difficult in the Alps.
Indeed the English have never ceased to love and be attracted to the Alps.
The first-known English climber in the Alps was Colonel Mark Beaufoy ( 1764 – 1827 ), who in 1787 made an ascent ( the fourth ) of Mont Blanc, a mountain to which his fellow-countrymen long exclusively devoted themselves, with a few noteworthy exceptions, such as Principal J. D.
They tracked them to Alba ( Scotland ), southwards through Britain, across the English Channel, through Lombardy, to the Alps, where they met an Irish girl herding sheep.
Savoie (; Arpitan: Savouè d ’ Avâl, Italian: Savoia,, English: Savoy, ) is a French department located in the Rhône-Alpes region in the French Alps.
* How the English Made the Alps by Jim Ring, ISBN 0-7195-5689-9
The Swabian Jura (, ( also, rarely ) ), sometimes also given the name Swabian Alps in English, is a low mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width.
It is perhaps for this reason that Schwaebische Alb has sometimes been translated into English as ' Swabian Alps ', thus avoiding the rather formal and obscure geological name Jura.
In the 1973 English contract law case Jarvis v Swans Tours Ltd, a holidaymaker sued after not receiving the Gemütlichkeit promised by the promotional literature for a package holiday to the Swiss Alps.
His first negotiations, on behalf of a company of English miners and the Protestant Vaudois communities of the Piedmont Alps, were entirely successful, and he then obtained his full salary.
A suspense story about an English surgeon travelling in the Swiss Alps who becomes entangled in the intrigues of pre-war anti-Nazis.
* Eagle's Nest — English name given to Hitler's mountain-top summerhouse at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, not far from the Berghof.
In English, the name meant " Stadium of the Alps ," a reference to the nearby Alps mountain range.
The genus Soldanella, commonly known in English as snowbell, includes about 15 species of flowering plants native to European mountains, from the Pyrenees, the Apennines, the Alps, the Carpathians and the Balkans.
: a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which have successfully addressed themselves to attempts of the kind on loftier mountains.
The English term " Julian March " is a translation of the Slovene and Serbo-Croatian name for the region, Julijska krajina, first coined by the Yugoslav press 1920: the name keeps the association to the Julian Alps, but drops the term " Venetia ", which is a cultural association to Italy.
It is an English language school and offers daily ski instruction in the Swiss Alps.
After taking a ferry across the English Channel, Palin crosses the Alps by train before being stopped in Innsbruck due to an Italian railway strike.
* The Alps ( band ), an English band
Nine Black Alps are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester, named after a line in The Couriers by Sylvia Plath and fronted by Sam Forrest.
Sennenhund, called Swiss mountain dogs or Swiss Cattle Dogs in English, are a type of dog originating in the Swiss Alps.
English and derives
The English word amber derives from the Arabic anbar, via Medieval Latin ambar and Old French ambre.
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.
The English word breast derives from the Old English word brēost ( breast, bosom ) from Proto-Germanic breustam ( breast ), from the Proto-Indo-European base bhreus – ( to swell, to sprout ).
The word borough derives from the Old English word burh, meaning a fortified settlement.
The term " common law " originally derives from the 1150s and 1160s, when Henry II of England established the secular English tribunals.
Its English name, chive, derives from the French word cive, from cepa, the Latin word for onion.
The English " cumin " derives from the Old English cymen ( or Old French cumin ), from Latin cuminum, which is the latinisation of the Greek κύμινον ( kuminon ), cognate with Hebrew כמון ( kammon ) and Arabic كمون ( kammun ).
* In Italian musical terms used in English, it means " with " ( con means " with " in both Italian and Spanish as the word derives from Latin )
The English word celibacy derives from the Latin caelibatus, " state of being unmarried ",
For example, the English words shirt and skirt are doublets ; the former derives from the Old English sċyrte, while the latter is loaned from Old Norse skyrta, both of which derive from the Proto-Germanic * skurtjōn -.
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 ".
However, the best modern analysis of the sources of the creed ( by A. de Halleux, in Revue Theologique de Louvain 7, 1976 ) and a reading of the acts, or proceedings, of the council ( recently translated into English ) show that the bishops considered Cyril the great authority and that even the language of ' two natures ' derives from him.
In ancient Greek, muthos, from which the English word " myth " derives, meant " story, narrative.
In the essay a blind English mathematician named Saunderson argues that since knowledge derives from the senses, then mathematics is the only form of knowledge that both he and a sighted person can agree about.
In 1651, John French published The Art of Distillation the first major English compendium of practice, though it has been claimed that much of it derives from Braunschweig's work.
The English word " dragon " derives from Greek δράκων ( drákōn ), " dragon, serpent of huge size, water-snake ", which probably comes from the verb δρακεῖν ( drakeîn ) " to see clearly ".
Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).
The English term " empiric " derives from the Greek word ἐμπειρία, which is cognate with and translates to the Latin experientia, from which we derive the word " experience " and the related " experiment ".
Many new words can be derived simply by changing these suffixes, just as-ly derives adverbs from adjectives in English: From vidi ( to see ), we get vida ( visual ), vide ( visually ), and vido ( sight ).
The English term Friday derives from the Anglo-Saxon name for Frigg, Frige.
He notes that the English word " capricious " derives from it, " evoking the animal's skittish temperament ", adding that " the name neatly expresses two aspects of Frank Capra's personality: emotionalism and obstinacy.
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