How skilled monolingual readers are able to arrive at a word’s pronunciation and meaning from printed text is a central question in studies of word recognition (see Yap & Balota, 2015, for a review). Extended to bilinguals, the question became one of using findings from word recognition to...
Each letter is named after a part of the human body. Some have more than one meaning - the primary meanings are given in the chart below. kok also means brain, khou also means palate or neck, ngou also means larynx, thou also means chest or ribs, pham also means buttocks or uterus,...
Lepcha is also known as Lapche, Nünpa, Rongke, Rongpa, Róng, Róng-ríng or Róngkup. The name Lepcha comes from a Nepali term meaning "inarticulate speech". Lepcha speakers call their language ᰛᰩᰵᰛᰧᰵᰶ (róngríng - "language of the Róng) and themselves ᰛᰩᰵ...
In regular expressions without theuflag, the pattern\pis an (unnecessary) escape sequence forp. Patterns of the form\p{Letter}might already be present in existing regular expressions without theuflag, and therefore we cannot assign new meaning to such patterns without breaking backwards compatibility....
Click Here to see full-size tableThe Greek alphabet derived from theNorth Semiticscript in the 8th centurybce. The direction ofwritingin the oldest Greek inscriptions—as in the Semitic scripts—is from right to left, a style that was superseded by theboustrophedon(meaning, in Greek, “as the...
A scholarly work on Irish names by the Rev. Patrick Woulfe, first published in1921. The book includes more than 3,500 surname entries that provide the origin and meaning of each name, as well as its English equivalents. Irish Surnames Site ...