39 relations: Bahuvrihi, Collocation, Consonant cluster, Controlling for a variable, Donald Ringe, Eduard Sievers, Franklin Edgerton, Fredrik Otto Lindeman, Germanic languages, Gothic language, Greek language, Hermann Grassmann, Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-European ablaut, Indo-European studies, Language (journal), Latin, Linguistic reconstruction, Liquid consonant, Metre (poetry), Morpheme, Nasal consonant, Oral poetry, Pari passu, Part of speech, Phonotactics, Physical metallurgy, Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Indo-European language, Rigveda, Root (linguistics), Sanskrit, Semivowel, Sonorant, Surface filter, Syllable, Syllable weight, Vedas, West Germanic gemination.
Bahuvrihi
A bahuvrihi compound (from tr, literally meaning "much rice" but denoting a rich man) is a type of compound in Sanskrit grammar, that denotes a referent by specifying a certain characteristic or quality the referent possesses.
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Collocation
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance.
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Consonant cluster
In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel.
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Controlling for a variable
In statistics, controlling for a variable is the attempt to reduce the effect of confounding variables in an observational study or experiment.
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Donald Ringe
Donald "Don" Ringe is an American linguist and Indo-Europeanist.
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Eduard Sievers
Eduard Sievers (25 November 1850, Lippoldsberg – 30 March 1932, Leipzig) was a philologist of the classical and Germanic languages.
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Franklin Edgerton
Franklin Edgerton (July 24, 1885 – December 7, 1963) was an American linguistic scholar.
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Fredrik Otto Lindeman
Fredrik Otto Lindeman (born 3 March 1936) is a Norwegian linguist.
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Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa.
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Gothic language
Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Hermann Grassmann
Hermann Günther Grassmann (Graßmann; April 15, 1809 – September 26, 1877) was a German polymath, known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician.
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Indo-Aryan languages
The Indo-Aryan or Indic languages are the dominant language family of the Indian subcontinent.
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Indo-European ablaut
In linguistics, the Indo-European ablaut (pronounced) is a system of apophony (regular vowel variations) in the Proto-Indo-European language.
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Indo-European studies
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct.
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Language (journal)
Language is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal published by the Linguistic Society of America since 1925.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Linguistic reconstruction
Linguistic reconstruction is the practice of establishing the features of an unattested ancestor language of one or more given languages.
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Liquid consonant
In phonetics, liquids or liquid consonants are a class of consonants consisting of lateral consonants like 'l' together with rhotics like 'r'.
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Metre (poetry)
In poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
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Morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language.
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Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive, nasal stop in contrast with a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
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Oral poetry
Oral poetry is poetry that is composed and transmitted without the aid of writing.
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Pari passu
Pari passu is a Latin phrase that literally means "with an equal step" or "on equal footing".
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Part of speech
In traditional grammar, a part of speech (abbreviated form: PoS or POS) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) which have similar grammatical properties.
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Phonotactics
Phonotactics (from Ancient Greek phōnḗ "voice, sound" and tacticós "having to do with arranging") is a branch of phonology that deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes.
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Physical metallurgy
Physical metallurgy is one of the two main branches of the scientific approach to metallurgy, which considers in a systematic way the physical properties of metals and alloys.
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Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; German: Urgermanisch; also called Common Germanic, German: Gemeingermanisch) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, the most widely spoken language family in the world.
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Rigveda
The Rigveda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद, from "praise" and "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns along with associated commentaries on liturgy, ritual and mystical exegesis.
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Root (linguistics)
A root (or root word) is a word that does not have a prefix in front of the word or a suffix at the end of the word.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.
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Semivowel
In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel or glide, also known as a non-syllabic vocoid, is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.
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Sonorant
In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant or resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages.
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Surface filter
In linguistics, a surface filter is type of sound change that operates not at a particular point in time but over a longer period.
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Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.
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Syllable weight
In linguistics, syllable weight is the concept that syllables pattern together according to the number and/or duration of segments in the rime.
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Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas (Sanskrit: वेद, "knowledge") are a large body of knowledge texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent.
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West Germanic gemination
West Germanic gemination was a sound change that took place in all West Germanic languages around the 3rd or 4th century AD.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievers's_law