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  2. Etymological dictionary - Wikipedia

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    An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's, will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology. [1] Etymological dictionaries are the product of research in historical linguistics. For many words in any ...

  3. List of English words of Yiddish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).

  4. Indo-European Etymological Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The IEED project is supervised by Alexander Lubotsky. [2] It aims to accomplish the following goals: to compile etymological databases for the individual branches of Indo-European, containing all the words that can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European, and print them in Brill's Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary series,

  5. How Polari, the ‘lost language’ of gay men, inspired much of ...

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    Butch, femme, drag, camp, zhuzh and more are now in common parlance, thanks to Polari, as well as some quite spicy terms, like cherry, dish and more (but more on that later).

  6. Zhengzhou University - Wikipedia

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    Zhengzhou University (ZZU; 郑州大学) is a provincial public university in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. It is affiliated with the Province of Henan. The university is part of Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction. Zhengzhou University is ranked 511th in the QS World University Rankings 2025, recognizing it as one of the top global ...

  7. Ancient higher-learning institutions - Wikipedia

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    If a university is defined as "an institution of higher learning" then it is preceded by several others, including the Academy that it was founded to compete with and eventually replaced. If the original meaning of the word is considered "a corporation of students" then this could be the first example of such an institution.

  8. English words of Greek origin - Wikipedia

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    The Greek language has contributed to the English lexicon in five main ways: . vernacular borrowings, transmitted orally through Vulgar Latin directly into Old English, e.g., 'butter' (butere, from Latin butyrum < βούτυρον), or through French, e.g., 'ochre';

  9. Economic history - Wikipedia

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    Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and institutions.