Diaphoneme — In linguistics, a diaphoneme or diaphone is a phoneme viewed through its dialectal variants, called diaphonic variants or diaphonic allophones.[1] For example, the vowel that constitutes the English word eye /aɪ/ is pronounced d … Wikipedia
which — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, of what kind, which, from Old English hwilc; akin to Old High German wilīh of what kind, which, Old English hwā who, gelīk like more at who, like Date: before 12th century 1. being what one or ones out of a … New Collegiate Dictionary
Italic languages — Infobox Language family name = Italic region = Originally in Southern Europe; today worldwide familycolor = Indo European fam1 = Indo European child1 = Latino Faliscan child2 = Sabellic iso2= The Italic subfamily is a member of the Indo European… … Wikipedia
Xenismen — Xenismus (gr. ξένος xénos „Fremder“) ist ein linguistischer Begriff, der bisher in den meisten Fachwörterbüchern ebenso fehlt wie in Wörterbüchern allgemeiner Art (Duden, Wahrig, etc.). Das Metzler Lexikon Sprache [1] weist darauf hin, dass er… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Xenismus — (gr. ξένος xénos „Fremder“) ist ein noch schillernder linguistischer Terminus, der bisher in den meisten Fachwörterbüchern ebenso fehlt wie in Wörterbüchern allgemeiner Art (Duden, Wahrig, etc.). Das Metzler Lexikon Sprache [1] weist darauf hin,… … Deutsch Wikipedia
name — namer, n. /naym/, n., v., named, naming, adj. n. 1. a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known. 2. mere designation, as distinguished from fact:… … Universalium
Joshua Whatmough — (* 30. Juni 1897 in Rochdale; † 25. April 1964 in Winchester, Massachusetts) war ein US amerikanischer Sprachwissenschaftler. Leben Joshua Whatmough stammte aus England. Er studierte Klassische Philologie an der University of Manchester (B.A.… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Diasystem — In the field of structural dialectology, a diasystem or polylectal grammar[1] is an analysis set up to encode or represent a range of related varieties.[2] Overwhelmingly, diasystems focus on sounds between varieties, though morphological and… … Wikipedia
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Vulgar Latin — (in Latin, sermo vulgaris , folk speech ) is a blanket term covering the popular dialects and sociolects of the Latin language which diverged from each other in the early Middle Ages, evolving into the Romance languages by the 9th century. The… … Wikipedia
