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  2. Brent (name) - Wikipedia

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    Brent is an Old English given name and surname. The place name can be from Celtic words meaning "holy one" (if it refers to the River Brent ), or "high place", literally, "from a steep hill" (if it refers to the villages in Somerset and Devon ).

  3. Category:Japanese business terms - Wikipedia

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  4. Brenton - Wikipedia

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    Brenton is an English place name and surname. The surname Brenton indicates that one's ancestors came from a place called Brenton near Exminster, Devon, south West England, the original meaning of which was "Bryni's homestead". Bryni was an Old English given name based on the word bryne, "flame". [1]

  5. Brent Knoll Camp - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the name Brent is unclear, but one possibility is from a word meaning burnt in Old English, suggesting that the settlement was at some time burnt by the Danes. [4] Another proposal is that the name comes from a Celtic term meaning "high place", [ 2 ] or even from another Celtic word, briant , meaning law, as the law was anciently ...

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles - Wikipedia

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    The English Wikipedia is an English-language encyclopedia. If an English loan word or place name of Japanese origin exists, it should be used in its most common English form in the body of an article, even if it is pronounced or spelled differently from the properly romanized Japanese; that is, use Mount Fuji, Tokyo, jujutsu, and shogi, instead of Fuji-san, Tōkyō, jūjutsu, and shōgi.

  7. Talk : Glossary of Japanese words of Portuguese origin

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    Spanish techo is derived from Latin tectum, still meaning "roof", in turn derived from Latin verb tegō meaning "I cover". Japanese 天井 (tenjō) is derived from Middle Chinese 天井 (then tsjeng X), referring to a 天 "sky" 井 "well", from the way that the ceiling is above, and the beams of the ceiling were arranged in a shape similar to a ...

  8. Glossary of Shinto - Wikipedia

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    The term became another word for the country or the location of Japan itself. The term can be used interchangeably with Toyoashihara no Nakatsukuni. A-un (阿吽, lit. ' Om ') – In Shinto-Buddhism, a-un is the transliteration in Japanese of the two syllables "a" and "hūṃ", written in Devanagari as अहूँ (the syllable, Om).

  9. Theory (clothing retailer) - Wikipedia

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    Tahari was allocated $53 million of the sale and had no shares in the new company which was renamed Theory Holdings. The deal was explained by the fact that the label was to become a truly "global brand". [5] [6] The Japanese parent company has since then traded under the name of Link Theory Holdings and went public in 2005. Fast Retailing had ...