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Shoes
(40 words)
See leather: garments and footwear. For raw hide shoes see hemming and rifeling. Other types of footwear include buskins; boots; slippers; and metal foot protection, which may be found under armour. Gale R. Owen-Crocker Not Specified Not Specified
Personal Pronoun (Arabic Dialects)
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The pronominal system of Arabic dialects has one characteristic in common with other varieties of the Arabic language and other Semitic languages: it consists of a series of independent pronouns and a series of suffixed pronouns, whose form may vary from region to region for various reasons, among which are the influence of the substratum (e.g. the Aramaic substratum in the Syrian-Lebanese area; see Diem 1971) and its own internal evolution, or even a mixture of both (see Behnstedt 1991). These …
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2018-04-01
Compounds
(2,285 words)
Naḥt is the term Arab grammarians use for the word formational method whereby a new form is coined out of two or more independent words, a process similar to what in English is referred to by such terms as ‘blending’ and ‘fusion’. Morphologically, this term derives from the root
n-ḥ-t ‘to carve, hew, chisel’. Thus, Arabic
manḥūtāt (pl. of
manḥūt), ‘
naḥt-type constructions’, are words, mostly of quadriliteral roots, that are ‘chiseled’ out of other words, so to speak. These constructions, however, are not all of the same compositional and/or functional nature; they may be said to fall into the following types, as can be gathered from medieval discussions of the subject (Ali 1987:59–85): …
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2018-04-01
Jarvis Island
(9 words)
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Coral Sea Islands
(10 words)
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Palmyra Atoll
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Virgin Islands, US
(10 words)
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon
(12 words)
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Guadeloupe
(9 words)
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Wallis and Futuna
(11 words)
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Puerto Rico
(9 words)
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Clipperton Island
(10 words)
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Union of South American Nations
(12 words)
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Bouvet Island
(9 words)
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Baker Island
(9 words)
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French Polynesia
(10 words)
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