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- Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:44 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Vena azygos
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15002
Vena azygos
Azygous vein is called Vena azygos in Latin. Azygos is the genitive of a rare Classic Greek noun "azyx." The Aristotelian passage is in Pol. 1253a: Aristotle compares the cityless man (απολις) to an isolated piece in a game of 'pettoi' (ατε περ αζυξ ων νσπερ εν πεττοις). The curious word α...
- Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:37 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Minister
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6943
- Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:35 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Minister
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6943
- Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:50 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: ASSASSINATE
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11238
Re: ASSASSINATE
Word History: The European languages borrowed this word from Arabic hashishiyy-in "hashish users", the plural of hashishiyy in the 13th century. The term originally referred to a fanatical anti-Christian Muslim sect at the time of the Crusades led by Hasan ibu-al-Sabbah, called Shaik-al-j...
- Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:47 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Thai Sentence
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8288
And I found the answer myself thanks to a good Thai translator site. http://www.thai2english.com/trans.html?query_id=16568 Tá-láy tá-láy, mêua-rài jà dâai bpai lâ nîa? Sea sea, when will able go particle particle. I don't know exactly what they mean but somehow the last two morphemes seem ...
- Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:55 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: hay yall
- Replies: 4
- Views: 33625
Fancy some advice on hay? Hay is dried grass (and pasture flowers) used to feed domestic animals at places or times where there is not enough (fresh) grass or when fresh grass by itself is too rich in some qualities for easy digestion by the animal. It is normally produced at the end of the flush of...
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:00 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Thai Sentence
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8288
Thai Sentence
Could there be a fellow Agoran who could graciously translate the following Thai sentence?
ทะเล๊ ทะเล เมื่อไหร่จะได้ไปล่ะเนี่ย ???
ทะเล๊ ทะเล เมื่อไหร่จะได้ไปล่ะเนี่ย ???
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:15 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Koine form of Immanuel
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21055
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:57 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Koine form of Immanuel
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21055
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:19 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Koine form of Immanuel
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21055
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:34 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Japanese scripts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12572
Actually, for proficient Japanese speakers hiragana renderings are more difficult to read. Kanji is the right, official, more accurate version for grammatical terms. I was trying to make comparison between Hiragana in this case and Arabic fateha, qasra and damma in Arabic. The two are not exact para...
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:10 am
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: water...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 20716
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:04 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Japanese scripts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12572
- Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Phrontistery
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18962
- Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:46 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: TRYST
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14750