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Proto-Germanic folklore - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_folkloreProto-Germanic folklore is the folklore of the speakers of Proto-Germanic and includes topics such as the Germanic mythology, legendry, and folk beliefs of early Germanic culture.By way of the comparative method, Germanic philologists, a variety of historical linguist, have proposed reconstructions of entities, locations, and concepts with various levels of security in early …
Thervingi - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThervingiThe Thervingi, Tervingi, or Teruingi (sometimes pluralised Tervings or Thervings) were a Gothic people of the plains north of the Lower Danube and west of the Dniester River in the 3rd and the 4th centuries. (In the 5th century they are known as the Thuringii.). They had close contacts with the Greuthungi, another Gothic people from east of the Dniester, as well as the Roman Empire.
Vandalic language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalic_languageAttestation. Very little is known about the Vandalic language other than various phrases and a small number of personal names of Vandalic origin, mainly known from documents and personal names in Spanish.The regional name Andalusia is traditionally believed to have derived from Vandalic, although this claim is contested.When the Moors invaded and settled on the Iberian …
Harald Bluetooth - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_BluetoothHarald "Bluetooth" Gormsson (Old Norse: Haraldr Blátǫnn Gormsson; Danish: Harald Blåtand Gormsen, died c. 985/86) was a king of Denmark and Norway.. He was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. Harald ruled as king of Denmark from c. 958 – c. 986. Harald introduced Christianity to Denmark and consolidated his rule over most of Jutland and Zealand.
Island - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IslandAn island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. ...
Tuesday - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuesdayThe name Tuesday derives from the Old English Tiwesdæg and literally means "Tiw's Day". Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Tîwaz, or Týr in Old Norse. *Tîwaz derives from the Proto-Indo-European base *dei-, *deyā-, *dīdyā-, meaning 'to shine', whence comes also such words as "deity".. The German Dienstag and Dutch dinsdag are derived from the Germanic …
English language - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_languageEnglish is a language that started in Anglo-Saxon England.It is originally from Anglo-Frisian and Old Saxon dialects.English is now used as a global language. There are about 375 million native speakers (people who use it as their first language) in the world.. Frisian is the language closest to English. The vocabulary of English was influenced by other Germanic languages in the early …
Analytic language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_languageBackground. The term analytic is commonly used in a relative rather than an absolute sense.The currently most prominent and widely used Indo-European analytic language is modern English, which has lost much of the inflectional morphology inherited from Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Germanic, and Old English over the centuries and has not gained any new inflectional …
Swedish language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_languageClassification. Swedish is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Germanic languages.In the established classification, it belongs to the East Scandinavian languages, together with Danish, separating it from the West Scandinavian languages, consisting of Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian.However, more recent analyses divide the North …
Polysemy - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolysemyPolysemy (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ s ɪ m i / or / ˈ p ɒ l ɪ s iː m i /; from Greek: πολύ-, polý-, "many" and σῆμα, sêma, "sign") is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme, a word, or a phrase) to have multiple related meanings.For example, a word can have several word senses. Polysemy is distinct from homosemy, where a word has a single meaning. Polysemy is distinct from ...
Middle English - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_EnglishMiddle English (abbreviated to ME) was a form of the English language spoken after the Norman conquest (1066) until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period. Scholarly opinion varies, but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period when Middle English was spoken as being from 1150 to …