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Child of the Land, refers to any person born and raised in Hawai’i. Does not describe someone who moves to Hawai’i. [kəməˈʔaːjnə] Link: Keiki: A child. Link: Kukui: The candlenut tree, state tree of Hawaii, so named because the nuts were used as candles.
If the person has sneezed three times: Morgen mooi weer. Less commonly used: Proost "Health" If the person has sneezed three times: "The weather will be nice tomorrow" From the Latin prōsit meaning "May it be good"; "To your health" [notes 1] Dank u (wel) (formal) or Dank je (wel) (informal) "Thank you" English: God bless you, Bless you, or ...
For one, the quiz show seems eerily similar to real life television tournaments like Jeopardy! and the sister dynamic is a little too on point. Turns out, there are some true elements to the Quiz ...
[26] [27] The earliest record of Homo is the 2.8 million-year-old specimen LD 350-1 from Ethiopia, and the earliest named species are Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis which evolved by 2.3 million years ago. [27] H. erectus (the African variant is sometimes called H. ergaster) evolved 2 million years ago and was the first archaic human species ...
The Grim Reaper [2] Personification of death Cultural: A skeleton with a scythe, often in a cloak. Also commonly truncated to just "The Reaper". Hand in one's dinner pail [2] To die Informal No longer required at workmen's canteen Happy hunting ground Dead Informal Used to describe the afterlife according to Native Americans Hara-kiri
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages. Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang , have become widely used in other varieties of English , and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond English.