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  2. Zhang-Zhung language - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] This identification has been accepted by Takeuchi Tsuguhito (武内紹人), who called the language "Old Zhangzhung" and added two further manuscripts. [10] Two of these manuscripts are in the Stein collection of the British Library (IOL Tib J 755 (Ch. Fragment 43) and Or.8212/188) and three in the Pelliot collection of the ...

  3. How Polari, the ‘lost language’ of gay men, inspired much of ...

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    Regardless, “zhuzh” — the pronunciation sounds a bit like "jouj" — is in fact a real word, meaning “to fix, to tidy; to smarten up,” according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang. This ...

  4. Lists of etymologies - Wikipedia

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    List of river name etymologies; List of Australian place names of Aboriginal origin; List of place names in Canada of aboriginal origin; List of indigenous names of Eastern Caribbean islands; Origins of names of cities and towns in Hong Kong; Lists of North American place name etymologies; List of place names of French origin in the United States

  5. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Verbs are given in their "dictionary form". The exact form given depends on the specific language: For the Germanic languages and for Welsh, the infinitive is given. For Latin, the Baltic languages, and the Slavic languages, the first-person singular present indicative is given, with the infinitive supplied in parentheses.

  6. Etymological dictionary - Wikipedia

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    For many words in any language, the etymology will be uncertain, disputed, or simply unknown. In such cases, depending on the space available, an etymological dictionary will present various suggestions and perhaps make a judgement on their likelihood, and provide references to a full discussion in specialist literature .

  7. Dictionary.com capitalizes ’Black,’ adds hundreds of new ...

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    The online lexicon on Tuesday announced its largest-ever update along with 650 brand new words and phrases, including zhuzh, amirite, brownface, janky, MeToo, sharent, whitesplain, DGAF and GOAT ...

  8. Zhuang languages - Wikipedia

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    Books of Zhuang language. The Zhuang languages (/ ˈ dʒ w æ ŋ, ˈ dʒ w ɒ ŋ /; [2] autonym: Vahcuengh, Zhuang pronunciation: [βa˧ɕuːŋ˧], pre-1982: Vaƅcueŋƅ, Sawndip: 話僮, from vah, 'language' and Cuengh, 'Zhuang'; simplified Chinese: 壮语; traditional Chinese: 壯語; pinyin: Zhuàngyǔ) are the more than a dozen Tai languages spoken by the Zhuang people of Southern China in ...

  9. Nearly 700 New Words Were Just Added to the Dictionary ... - AOL

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