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  • CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B is a Unicode block containing rare and historic CJK ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese submitted...
    32 KB (565 words) - 14:05, 29 May 2025
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    eight-bar cognate linkages. Triplet cognate linkage pairings and further extensions are also possible, allowing for the number of links of cognate linkages...
    12 KB (1,192 words) - 00:43, 24 May 2025
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    or strait. While channel typically refers to a natural formation, the cognate term canal denotes a similar artificial structure. Channels are important...
    11 KB (1,302 words) - 03:15, 21 April 2025
  • words and roots, with their cognates in all of the major families of descendants. The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the...
    347 KB (9,154 words) - 11:08, 20 June 2025
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    India (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    Achaemenid Empire), and ultimately its cognate, the Sanskrit Sindhu, or 'river'—specifically the Indus River, and by extension its well-settled southern basin...
    245 KB (23,982 words) - 13:51, 22 June 2025
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    O (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    value was that of a consonant, probably [ʕ], the sound represented by the cognate Arabic letter ع ʿayn. The use of this Phoenician letter for a vowel sound...
    17 KB (1,338 words) - 12:39, 18 June 2025
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    Y (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    silva ('forest') was commonly spelled sylva, in analogy with the Greek cognate and synonym ὕλη. The letter Y was used to represent the sound /y/ in Old...
    34 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 1 June 2025
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    Ardennes (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    Arduenna Silva in the Roman Period. Arduenna probably derives from a Gaulish cognate of the Brythonic word ardu- as in the Welsh: ardd ("high") and the Latin...
    21 KB (2,134 words) - 16:17, 25 May 2025
  • Über (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    "above" or "across". It is an etymological twin with German ober, and is a cognate (through Proto-Germanic) with English over, Dutch over, Swedish över and...
    7 KB (834 words) - 17:44, 12 April 2025
  • Pērkōns met savu milnu ("Pērkōn throws his mace"), the mace (milna) is cognate with the Old Norse mjölnir, the hammer thrown by the thunder god Thor,...
    63 KB (6,830 words) - 11:48, 28 May 2025
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    derived from ὦμος (ōmos), the Ancient Greek word for shoulder, and is cognate with the Latin (h)umerus, which in Latin signifies either the shoulder...
    33 KB (3,758 words) - 01:06, 25 May 2025
  • Führer (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    meaning of "leader", especially in political contexts. The word Führer has cognates in the Scandinavian languages, spelled fører in Danish and Norwegian. In...
    25 KB (2,440 words) - 23:21, 22 June 2025
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    Huehnergard notes the great difficulty in establishing cognate sets across the family. Identifying cognates is difficult because the languages in question are...
    112 KB (11,397 words) - 17:22, 26 May 2025
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    company-owned street tramways were built or extended with the application of cognate technology related to high pressure steam innovations. Traction engines...
    65 KB (6,843 words) - 05:39, 26 May 2025
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    most comparative linguists have rejected the proposal, after supposed cognates were found not to be valid, hypothesized sound shifts were not found, and...
    63 KB (7,162 words) - 19:42, 17 June 2025
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    Heinrich (given name) (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    pronunciation: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç] ) is a German given name of ancient Germanic origin and a cognate to Henry. The female forms are Henrike and Henriette. The most famous patron...
    8 KB (853 words) - 20:50, 29 May 2025
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    Wiedergänger (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    different cultural areas, meaning "re-walker", or by extension, "one who walks again"; cognate to Scandinavian gjenganger ("again-walker"). The core...
    7 KB (961 words) - 19:57, 13 February 2025
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    B (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    find their cognates in other Indo-European languages appearing with ⟨bh⟩, ⟨p⟩, ⟨f⟩ or ⟨φ⟩ instead. For example, compare the various cognates of the word...
    17 KB (1,388 words) - 04:54, 22 May 2025
  • not silent in words such as German Knecht which is a cognate of knight, Knoten which is a cognate of knot, etc. Likewise, ⟨g⟩ was probably a voiced velar...
    6 KB (519 words) - 19:43, 17 June 2025
  • Von (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    preserved in Swiss toponymic surnames and in the Dutch van, which is a cognate of von but also does not necessarily indicate nobility. The abolition of...
    11 KB (1,464 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2025
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