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Pioneer, ship at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City, U.S., 1885; USS Pioneer, several U.S. Navy ships, 1800s – 1900s; USC&GS Pioneer, several U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ships, 1900s; MV P&O Pioneer, a British hybrid power seagoing ferry, introduced on the Dover–Calais route, 2023
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.
For example, English pioneer was borrowed from Middle French in the sense of "digger, foot soldier, pedestrian", then acquired the sense of "early colonist, innovator" in English, which was reborrowed into French, adding to the senses of the word pionnier. [1] Typical semantic loans also include the German realisieren. The English verb "to ...
Alternatively, a specific sense of a borrowed word can be reborrowed as a semantic loan; for example, English pioneer was borrowed from Middle French in the sense of "digger, foot soldier, pedestrian", then acquired the sense of "early colonist, innovator" in English, which was reborrowed into French. [1]
The word "pioneer" originates with the Middle French pionnier (originally, a foot soldier, or soldier involved in digging trenches), from the same root as peon or pawn. [8] In the English language , the term independently evolved a sense of being an innovator or trailblazer . [ 8 ]
The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning "entertaining conversation" (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a sense of 'fun' or ...
This is a list of Latin verbs with English derivatives and those derivatives. 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.
Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926), [1] an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science, developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank worked with (for example) fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables.