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...

Magna Carta
macrobian
magnetic

that is all I can get from my humble mnemonic device...

Magistrate would make a pair with minister.

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...

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 ...

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...

Could there be a fellow Agoran who could graciously translate the following Thai sentence?

ทะเล๊ ทะเล เมื่อไหร่จะได้ไปล่ะเนี่ย ???

I further checked and realised that consonant endings for Greek nouns are limited to S, R and N. Borrrowed words ending with other consonants cannot be inflected according to the declension paradigm.

*Eμμανουηλαν, *Eμμανουηλην, *Eμμανουηλον.

There are non-existent would-be accusatives, if the word was to have normal Greek declension.

Shalom u-vrakha

Peace and blessing -- a typical Hebrew greeting.

Immanuel is Eμμανουηλ in Koine Greek. I think this is an invariable noun since I could not find any accusative form different from the nominative: *Eμμανουηλαν, *Eμμανουηλην, *Eμμανουηλον.

שלום וברכה
Huia Jesou!

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...

All I can say is, "Save water, drink beer."

Welcome, brickredstar!

The Japanese term for noun is 名詞. If spelt out in hiragana, めいし, it can be confused with homonyms.

Flam

Schizophenia, hebephrenia, phrase and frenzy too.

They are ultimately come from PIE gwhren.

Actually I thought tryst is triste in an strange English spelling when I first saw it.

Flaminius of the Agora,
who finds his reference a curious Graeco-Roman hybrid.