Traditional Italianate wind names are not used. Speed: The wind speed is expressed by adjectives (in the original language) or in km/h. Most of the series are easily converted with the conversion factors provided. But sometimes the units recorded in the documentary source were wrong, e.g.,...
‘and this is common to almost allartes: either new names have to be coined for new matters,or they have to be transferred from other [fields]. If the Greeks, who have been engaged inthese matters already for centuries, do this, how much more this has to be conceded to uswho are ...
Rhūqo"pigeon" is problematic, because-osuggest nearly any paradigm whatsoever. But Joel (ibid.), points out that*rhūqesis likely, simply because so many animal names belong to that paradigm. This is a good guess, but still just a guess because there are many exceptions. I guess HV reci...
covers the bases with its common names of Livid Sedge and Pale Sedge – they highlight either the word’s double meaning, or the confusion of the colloquial namers; the leaves are pale, they’re also a leaden blue-grey. The Mourning Widow or Dusky Crane’s-bill,Geranium phaeum, has a...
The latter included the temporary exhibition ofpanelswith geographical namesorpictures,which were then permanently shownin temples,housesorlibraries.⁶¹Augustus even builtamonument to give averbalmap of the conquered world: whileJ. Scheid⁶²has shown us thattheRes Gestaemayhavebeen writtenfor ...
A long-overdue look at a very early, secretly legendary chapter in the career of Lou Reed – a time when he was slaving away in the studios of the budget-line Pickwick Records label, writing and recording all sorts of music that was released under the names of fake groups who didn't ...
Of the original names few remain: Alberto Campos (brother in law) remains; Avenida Vieira Souto, in honor of the urban planner, still graces the waterfront. Jose Antonio Moreira Filho had several partners in Vila Ipanema: Coronel Antonio Jose Silva, Jose Luis Guimaraes Caipora and Constante ...
While many of the biggest names in Latin trap have come out of Puerto Rico, the genre was heavily influenced by the bicultural experiences of Spanish-speaking rappers living in cities like New York and Washington, D.C. The Dominican-born, Harlem-raised Messiah spent the early part of the 20...
Whiletheseprocessestookagreatvarietyof formsandnamesandoftencontinuedto usecoloniallegalconceptsand‘traditional’cul-tural forms,themostwidespreadgeneric labourrelationsin thisspherewere, on theonehand,modesof givingaccessto landin exchangefor labouron largerestatesand,on theother,debtpeonage,i.e.labour...
guard and spy, and we have kept the names of officers such as captain and sergeant.Some of the French terms were introduced into English because they were needed to express a new object or a new idea.In other cases a French and a native English word for the same thing existed side by...