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  • 101Musée du Palatinat (Heidelberg) — Le Musée du Palatinat (en allemand Kurpfälzische Museum) est un des musées d Heidelberg. Il est situé dans le Palais Morass. Il abrite une importante collection d œuvres d art de la préhistoire à nos jours. Sommaire 1 Peinture 1.1 Peinture… …

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  • 102Musée du Palatinat de la ville de Heidelberg — 49° 24′ 41″ N 8° 42′ 10″ E / 49.4114, 8.70278 …

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  • 103Dryfesdale —    DRYFESDALE, a parish, in the county of Dumfries, 14 miles (N. N. W.) from Annan; containing, with the town of Lockerbie, 2093 inhabitants. This parish, which derives its name from the Dryfe, a small rivulet running through the north west part… …

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  • 104Lilliesleaf —    LILLIESLEAF, a parish, in the district of Melrose, county of Roxburgh; containing 771 inhabitants, of whom 355 are in the village, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Selkirk. This parish, the name of which has in various records been written Lillesclive… …

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  • 105marsh — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. swamp (see water). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. morass, bog, quagmire; see swamp . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. bog, swamp, fen, bayou, everglade, estuary, moor, wetland, quagmire, slough. WORD FIND • …

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  • 106fen — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bog, morass, marsh; see swamp . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A usually low lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water: bog, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, slough1, swamp, swampland,… …

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  • 107Morast — Sm erw. stil. (17. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus mndl. maras, marasch, dieses aus afrz. marois Sumpf , aus awfrk. * marisk Sumpfland . Das t ist epithetisch, die Ersetzung von /a/ durch /o/ dürfte auf eine volksetymologische Anlehnung an Moor… …

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  • 108quagmire — [n1] bad situation box*, corner*, difficulty, dilemma, entanglement, fix, hole*, imbroglio, impasse, involvement, jam, mire, morass, muddle, pass, perplexity, pickle*, pinch*, plight, predicament, quandary, scrape, trouble; concepts 666,674 Ant.… …

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  • 109dheu-b-, dheu-p- —     dheu b , dheu p     English meaning: deep, *black, bottom, dark waters     Deutsche Übersetzung: “tief, hohl”     Note: The shift gʷ > b , kʷ > p is a common Gk. phonetic mutation hence all other IE tongues borrowed Root dheu b , dheu p …

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  • 110dheu-4, dheu̯ǝ- (dhu̯ē-, extended dhuē̯ -k-, dhuē̯ -̆ s-) —     dheu 4, dheu̯ǝ (dhu̯ē , extended dhuē̯ k , dhuē̯ ̆ s )     English meaning: to reel, dissipate, blow, *smoke, dark, gray, deep etc.     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘stieben, wirbeln, especially von Staub, Rauch, Dampf; wehen, blow, Hauch, Atem;… …

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