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  2. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    -ell (English spelling for French -el, diminutive) [citation needed] - el (Northern French and Occitan, French -eau ) [ citation needed ] - ema (Suffix of Frisian origin, given by Napoleon Bonaparte who used suffixes like these to keep a record of people's origins within the Netherlands ) [ citation needed ]

  3. List of Sanskrit and Persian roots in Hindi - Wikipedia

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    The following is an alphabetical (according to Hindi's alphabet) list of Sanskrit and Persian roots, stems, prefixes, and suffixes commonly used in Hindi. अ (a)

  4. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic ...

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    bee: western honey bee, Apis mellifera; white sage, Salvia apiana. apianus – apiana – apianum – All pages with titles beginning with Api: aquaticus: L: found near water: eastern mole, Scalopus aquaticus; wild rice, Zizania aquatica; water spinach, Ipomoea aquatica; parrot's-feather, Myriophyllum aquaticum, aquaticus – aquatica ...

  5. Spelling bee - Wikipedia

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    A spelling bee at an elementary school, with a speller addressing an audience and a judge, with other contestants behind. A spelling bee is a competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad selection of words, usually with a varying degree of difficulty. To compete, contestants must memorize the spellings of words as written in ...

  6. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Nouns in Hindi are put in the dative or accusative case first having the noun in the oblique case and then by adding the postposition ko after it. However, when two nouns are used in a sentence in which one of them is in the accusative case and the other in the dative case, the sentence becomes ambiguous and stops making sense, so, to make ...

  7. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    "Land of the Finns", from the Swedish spelling, [39] first attested in runestones in Old Norse in present-day Sweden. Early mentions of the Fenni in Tacitus 's first-century Germania and the Phinnoi ( Ancient Greek : Φιννοι ) in Ptolemy 's second-century Geography are today thought to refer to the modern Sami people .

  8. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    Hindi spelling Urdu spelling Romanization Pronunciation Gloss रेज़गारी: ریزگاری rezgārī [ˈreːz.ɡaː.ri(ː)] small change, coins समिति: سَمِتی samiti [sə.ˈmɪ.t(ɪ)] committee क़िस्मत: قسمت qismat [ˈqɪs.mə(t)] fate रौज़ाना: روزانہ rozānā [roː.ˈzaː.na(ː ...

  9. Prefix - Wikipedia

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    Adding a prefix to the beginning of an English word changes it to a different word. For example, when the prefix un-is added to the word happy, it creates the word unhappy. The word prefix is itself made up of the stem fix (meaning "attach", in this case), and the prefix pre-(meaning "before"), both of which are derived from Latin roots.