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  2. List of kennings - Wikipedia

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    There is a connection to the word nesa meaning subject to public ridicule/failure/shame, i.e. "the failure/shame of swords", not only "where the sword first hits/ headland of swords" Kennings can sometimes be a triple entendre. N: Þorbjörn Hornklofi, Glymdrápa 3 ship wave-swine unnsvín: N ship sea-steed gjálfr-marr: N: Hervararkviða 27 ...

  3. Kenning - Wikipedia

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    Detail of the Old English manuscript of the poem Beowulf, showing the words "ofer hron rade" ("over the whale's road"), meaning "over the sea".. A kenning (Icelandic: [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a figure of speech, a figuratively-phrased compound term that is used in place of a simple single-word noun.

  4. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Also ship's magazine. The ammunition storage area aboard a warship. magnetic bearing An absolute bearing using magnetic north. magnetic north The direction towards the North Magnetic Pole. Varies slowly over time. maiden voyage The first voyage of a ship in its intended role, i.e. excluding trial trips. Maierform bow A V-shaped bow introduced in the late 1920s which allowed a ship to maintain ...

  5. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    binnacle list A ship's sick list. The list of men unable to report for duty was given to the officer or mate of the watch by the ship's surgeon. The list was kept at the binnacle. bird farm United States Navy slang for an aircraft carrier. bite Verb used in reference to a rudder, as in "the rudder begins to bite". When a vessel has steerageway ...

  6. Lists of ships - Wikipedia

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    Japan: List of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy; Mexico: List of ships of the Mexican Navy; New Zealand: List of ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Ottoman Empire: List of sailing ships of the Ottoman Empire; List of battleships of the Ottoman Empire; Peru: List of Peruvian Navy ships; Portugal: List of ships of the Portuguese Navy

  7. Compound (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    servant- NOM l-lāh-i DEF -god- GEN ʕabd-u l-lāh-i servant-NOM DEF-god-GEN "servant of-the-god: the servant of God" Agglutinative languages tend to create very long words with derivational morphemes. Compounds may or may not require the use of derivational morphemes also. In German, extremely extendable compound words can be found in the language of chemical compounds, where, in the cases of ...

  8. Moby Project - Wikipedia

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    However, some of the lists are contaminated: for example, the Japanese list contains English words such as abnormal and non-words such as abcdefgh and m,./.There are also unusual peculiarities in the sorting of these lists, as the French list contains a straight alphabetical listing, while the German list contains the alphabetical listing of traditionally capitalized words and then the ...

  9. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...