The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

The term " Afroasiatic " ( often now spelled as " Afro-Asiatic ") was later coined by Maurice Delafosse ( 1914 ).

In the course of his work, Greenberg coined the term " Afroasiatic " to replace the earlier term " Hamito-Semitic ," after showing that Hamitic, widely accepted since the 19th century, is not a valid language family.

Sergei Starostin's school has now re-included Afroasiatic in a broadly defined Nostratic, while reserving the term Eurasiatic to designate the narrower subgrouping which comprises the rest of the macrofamily.

This demonstration also led to the rejection ( by him and by linguistics as a whole ) of the term Hamitic as having no coherent meaning in historical linguistics ; as a result, he renamed the newly reclassified family " Afroasiatic ".

The third son of Noah, Shem still gives his name to the Semitic languages, a branch of the Afroasiatic family of languages, for which " Semito-Hamitic " is an older, and now virtually obsolete term.

Marija Gimbutas () ( Vilnius, January 23, 1921 – Los Angeles, United States February 2, 1994 ), was a Lithuanian-American archeologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of " Old Europe ", a term she introduced, and for her Kurgan hypothesis, the current most widely accepted of the Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses among scholars.

Urheimat ( or / ˈʊəhaɪmɑ: t /; ; a German compound of Ur-" primitive, original " and Heimat " home, homeland ") is a linguistic term that denotes the homeland of the speakers of a proto-language.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

The variable costs alone are assigned to the different units of freight traffic as representing `` long-run out-of-pocket costs '' -- a term with a meaning here not distinctly different from that of the economist's `` long-run marginal costs ''.

In lieu of " Hamito-Semitic ", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term " Afrasian ", meaning " half African, half Asiatic ", in reference to the geographic distribution of the phylum's constituent languages.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The Navajo people, who now reside in parts of former Pueblo territory, referred to the ancient people as, an exonym meaning " ancient enemies " although it is now used in the term " ancient people, or " ancient ones.

This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

The Nicene Creed's central term, used to describe the relationship between the Father and the Son, is Homoousios (), or Consubstantiality, meaning " of the same substance " or " of one being ".

This is linked to the term to weigh anchor, meaning to lift the anchor from the sea bed, allowing the ship or boat to move.

The second suggestion is " vine ", which is reached through * Ambilō, which may be related to the Greek term ámpelos, itself meaning " vine, liana ".

The term Suebi has a double meaning in the sources.

The term has the meaning of one being crestfallen, depressed, despondent, downcast, gloomy, sullen and evidently frowning, scowling.

The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".

It is unlikely that the term " democracy " was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of a valid " demarchy ", as the word " demarchy " already existed and had the meaning of mayor or municipal.

The term ' antibiosis ', meaning " against life ," was introduced by the French bacteriologist Vuillemin as a descriptive name of the phenomenon exhibited by these early antibacterial drugs.

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

Astrologia later passed into meaning ' star-divination ' with astronomia used for the scientific term.

The term " aesthetics " was appropriated and coined with new meaning in the German form Æsthetik ( modern spelling Ästhetik ) by Alexander Baumgarten in 1735.

Furthermore, it is clear that even the basic meaning of the term " art " has changed several times over the centuries, and has continued to evolve during the 20th century as well.

A typical dish prepared by the latter is the curanto ( a term meaning " hot stone ").

The intended meaning was likely the first, which would be translated as Latin causātīvus or effectīvus, but the Latin term was a translation of the second.

Conversely, the vowel marks of the Tigrinya abugida and the Amharic abugida ( ironically, the original source of the term " abugida ") have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

The term allocution differs from distribution as distribution implies that the original party loses some kind of control over the information.

The term when adopted into ecclesiastical usage retained much of its original significance.

Those who uphold the original beliefs of Jacobus Arminius himself, is the common way to define Arminianism, but those of Hugo Grotius, John Wesley and others also understood the term as a sort of umbrella for a bigger alliance of ideas as well.

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

The original term he coined was Unics ( for Uniplexed Information and Computing Service, a play on Multics ), which was later changed to Unix.

All subsequent manuscripts of the Chronicle use the term Brytenwalda, which may have represented the original term or derived from a common error.

* The term bondage is also used figuratively to mean spiritual attachment, such as to the physical world, or an evil compelling force, such as original sin

By extension, the term is also used to refer to any system administrator who displays ( or wishes he could get away with ) the qualities of the original.

However, the term is applied to multidimensional data as well as to univariate data and in situations where a transformation of the data values for some or all dimensions would usually be considered necessary: in the latter cases, the notion of a " central location " is retained in converting an " average " computed for the transformed data back to the original units.

Wincenty Kadłubek ( Vincent Kadlubo, 1160 – 1223 ) used for the first time the original Latin term res publica in the context of Poland in his " Chronicles of the Kings and Princes of Poland.

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

In the original Japanese version, these three ( along with the rest of Dr. Gero's artificial creations ) are referred to as jinzouningen, which is a blanket term in Japanese science fiction applying to robots and androids, as well as cyborgs.

Notice that the term in parenthesis is the original expression of in Cartesian coordinates.

His usage of the term was clearly derived from the original Roman sense-i. e., a person taking power for a limited time in order to deal with an emergency ( in this case, the need to unite Italy ) and with the task done Garibaldi handed over power to the government of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.

Reviewing the film for Scientific American, John Rennie says " The term is a curious throwback, because in modern biology almost no one relies solely on Darwin's original ideas ...

Although there is no mention of Doublespeak in Nineteen Eighty-Four, it has been argued that the term is a combination of two concepts-Doublethink and Newspeak which are original to his work.

The original usage of the term distinguished these scriptures both from those considered non-canonical and from those considered protocanonical.

Its use began to develop from this original sense when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek ; in Ancient Greece the term διασπορά ( diaspora ) meant " scattering " and was used to refer to citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the empire.

Brubaker outlines the original use of the term diaspora as follows:

However, the term dharma can also be transliterated from its original form.