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  2. Arsis and thesis - Wikipedia

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    Note grouping. A=Arsis, T=Thesis. [1] Play ⓘ Binary and ternary rhythms and meter are said to originate in human movement. [1] Inh.=Inhalation, Exh.=Exhalation. In music and prosody, arsis (/ ˈ ɑːr s ɪ s /; plural arses, / ˈ ɑːr s iː z /) and thesis (/ ˈ θ iː s ɪ s /; plural theses, / ˈ θ iː s iː z /) [2] are respectively the stronger and weaker parts of a musical measure or ...

  3. Nonconcatenative morphology - Wikipedia

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    In English, for example, while plurals are usually formed by adding the suffix -s, certain words use nonconcatenative processes for their plural forms: foot /fʊt/ → feet /fiːt/; Many irregular verbs form their past tenses, past participles, or both in this manner: freeze /ˈfriːz/ → froze /ˈfroʊz/, frozen /ˈfroʊzən/.

  4. English plurals - Wikipedia

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    Although the everyday meaning of plural is "more than one", the grammatical term has a slightly different technical meaning. In the English system of grammatical number, singular means "one (or minus one)", and plural means "not singular". In other words, plural means not just "more than one" but also "less than one (except minus one)".

  5. They have pierced my hands and my feet - Wikipedia

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    While this translation is highly controversial, it is asserted in Christian apologetics that the Dead Sea Scrolls lend weight to the translation as "They have pierced my hands and my feet", by lengthening the ending yud in the Hebrew word כארי (like a lion) into a vav כארו "Kaaru", which is not a word in the Hebrew language but when the ...

  6. Stigmata - Wikipedia

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    Stigmata (Ancient Greek: στίγματα, plural of στίγμα stigma, 'mark, spot, brand'), in Catholicism, are bodily wounds, scars and pain which appear in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ: the hands, wrists, feet, near the heart, the head (from the crown of thorns), and back (from carrying the cross and ...

  7. Broken plural - Wikipedia

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    A statistical analysis of a list of the 3000 most frequent Arabic words shows that 978 (59%) of the 1670 most frequent nominal forms take a sound plural, while the remaining 692 (41%) take a broken plural. [4] Another estimate of all existing nominal forms gives over 90,000 forms with a sound plural and just 9540 with a broken one. [4]

  8. Dual (grammatical number) - Wikipedia

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    The words "eyes" and "shoulders" had dual forms in the instrumental plural case: очима ochyma ("eyes") and плечима plechyma ("shoulders"). Furthermore, the nominative plural word вуса vusa, which is the dual of вус vus ("whisker"), refers to the moustache, while the true nominative plural word вуси vusy refers to whiskers ...

  9. Callus - Wikipedia

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    A corn (or clavus, plural clavi) is a cone-shaped callus that penetrates into the dermis, usually on the feet or hands. Corns may form due to chronic pressure or rubbing at a pressure point (in this skin over a bone), or due to scar tissue from a healing wound creating pressure in a weight-bearing area such as the sole of the foot.