English 2. 9 % ( closely related to German and other Indo-European languages ).

Both the Latin and the Germanic words derive from the Proto-Indo-European root el -, meaning " red " or " brown ", which is also a root for the English words " elk " and another tree: " elm ", a tree distantly related to the alders.

She edited and published Lavoisier ’ s memoirs ( whether any English translations of those memoirs have survived is unknown as of today ) and hosted parties at which eminent scientists discussed ideas and problems related to chemistry.

The commission, though, was biased, as Spalding would not appoint anyone to the commission if they believed the sport was somewhat related to the English sport of rounders.

In many legal jurisdictions related to English common law, affray is a public order offence consisting of the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror ( in ) of ordinary people ( the lieges ).

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

St. Jerome differed with St. Augustine in his Latin translation of the plant known in Hebrew as קיקיון ( qiyqayown ), using Hedera ( from the Greek, meaning ivy ) over the more common Latin cucurbita from which the related English plant name cucumber is derived.

English criminal law and the related criminal law of Commonwealth countries can define offences that the courts alone have developed over the years, without any actual legislation: common law offences.

In 1388, the word civil appeared in English meaning " of or related to citizens.

In some cases, such as " shirt " and " skirt ", one of the cognate pairs has an ultimate source in another language related to English, while the other one is native, as happened with many loanwords from Old Norse borrowed during the Danelaw.

Australian English and New Zealand English are closely related to each other, and share some similarities with South African English.

English, for example, is related to both German and Russian, but is more closely related to the former than it is to the latter.

The Old English word for carry was dragen which developed into a series of related words, including drag, draw, and draught.

It survives in this fixed form from the days of Old English ( having undergone, however, phonetic changes with the rest of the language ), in which it was constructed as "" + " me " ( the dative case of the personal pronoun ) + " thinks " ( i. e., " seems ", < Old English thyncan, " to seem ", a verb closely related to the verb thencan, " to think ", but distinct from it in Old English ; later it merged with " think " and lost this meaning ).

English may refer to something of, from, or related to England, especially:

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 ".

The name seems however to be related to Icelandic Fiðla and also Old English fiðele.

Another example is the word gift, which in English and Dutch means a " present " but in German and the Scandinavian languages means " poison " ( the Swedish word for " gift " being gåva, related to the verb " to give ").

English " knight " and German and Dutch Knecht are clearly related ( though pronounced differently ), and originally had also a similar meaning, denoting a person rather low in the social scale.

These richly grassed ' meersen ' (" water-meadows ": a word related to the English ' marsh ', but not meaning exactly the same: a ' meers ' is not permanently under water ) were ideally suited for herding sheep, the wool of which was used for making cloth.

Specifically, is the neuter plural of, an adjective related to the verb ἀποκρύπτω ἀποκρύπτειν ( apocriptein ), " to hide something away.

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

Eucharist: the Greek noun εὐχαριστία ( eucharistia ), meaning " thanksgiving ", is not used in the New Testament as a name for the rite ; however, the related verb is found in New Testament texts concerning the Last Supper, including the earliest:

The noun is related to the Latin verb gigno, genui, genitus, " to bring into being, create, produce.

The word gymnastics derives from the common Greek adjective ( gymnos ) meaning " naked ", by way of the related verb γυμνάζω ( gymnazo ), whose meaning is " to train naked ", " train in gymnastic exercise ", generally " to train, to exercise ".

In many European languages, the word for " case " is cognate to the English word, all stemming from the Latin casus, related to the verb cadere, " to fall ", with the sense that all other cases have fallen away from the nominative.

( homēréō ), another related verb, besides signifying " meet ", can mean "( sing ) in accord / tune ".

This is etymologically similar to the aged verb löga, " to bathe ", arguably related to lördag, " Saturday ".

It also exists in Frisian as " pine " which in turn is related to the English verb " to pine " which means to long for.

The word is derived from the Greek ( rhētorikós ), " oratorical ", from ( rhḗtōr ), " public speaker ", related to ( rhêma ), " that which is said or spoken, word, saying ", and ultimately derived from the verb ( legō ), " to speak, say ".

Verðandi is literally the present tense of the Old Norse verb " verða ", " to become ", and is commonly translated as " in the making " or " that which is happening / becoming "; it is related to the Dutch word worden and the German word werden, both meaning " to become ".

The word is also an adverb meaning " consecutively " or " actively " and may be related to its synonym varda ( whose dictionary definition also includes " freely " or " unimpeded ") and the verb vardoj / me vardue, which means " to work ( extensively ).

It is closely related to the English verb to dig ( EWN ).

The valency of a verb is a related concept.

The valency of a verb is related to transitivity.

The etymology of the name may be related to a Germanic verb * wand-" to wander " ( English wend, German wandeln ).

In Hebrew, the word ba ' al means " husband " or " owner ", and is related to a verb meaning to take possession of, for a man, to consummate a marriage.

The verb scotch is unrelated to the noun, and is not related to " Scotland ".

The SCUMM engine was also used in this Monkey Island installment but it was upgraded to a " verb coin " ( modelled after Full Throttle ), an interface that consisted in a coin-shaped menu, with three icons: a hand, a skull and a parrot, basically representing actions related to hands, eyes and mouth, respectively.

The verb to sandwich has the meaning to position anything between two other things of a different character, or to place different elements alternately, and the noun sandwich has related meanings derived from this more general definition.

In the allegorical etymology of antiquity, the name was related to the Latin verb conserere, " to sow ," as was the title of the goddess Ops as Consivia or Consiva.