diminutive form of root*deu-(2) "to do, perform; show favor, revere." Related tobonus"good" (seebonus). "The dim. meaning is the reason whybelluswas originally used to refer to women and children; it was applied to men only ironically" [de Vaan, who adds that "The PIE etymology ...
Bible (who lived in Babel and competed with the Bel cult), transliterated this name deliberately intoבל(Bel), so that it strongly resembled the adverbבל(bal), which is a particle of negation meaning "not". It comes from the rootבלה(bala), meaning to be old or worn ...
For me Thanksgiving has little meaning. Being French, Thanksgiving is not something that I have grown up with. While I studied it at school, from a civilisation point of view, it really is not something that resonates with me. However, what we experienced as a community a few weeks ago...
Said Forestier to him: "Look at the stalls; nothing but middle-class folk with their wives and children, well-meaning fools who come to see the show. In the boxes, men about town, some artists, some girls, good second-raters; and behind us, the strangest mixture in Paris. Who are ...
Cash has been the root of much social and economic evil. The emergence of electronic funds-transfer technology makes it possible to change the nature of money and to divorce it from evil. Eighty percent of Americans regularly use credit cards. The development of a federal system to handle the...
1.The word “boyish” contains two ___. A. phonemes B. morphs C. morphemes D. allomorph 2.___morphemes are those that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word. A. Free B. Bound C. Root D. Affix 3. The _...
diminutive form of root*deu-(2) "to do, perform; show favor, revere." Related tobonus"good" (seebonus). "The dim. meaning is the reason whybelluswas originally used to refer to women and children; it was applied to men only ironically" [de Vaan, who adds that "The PIE etymology ...