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• Narrative
  ...led'''". (Ultimately derived from the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] root ''gnō-'', "to know".[https://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE177.html] As with many words in the [[English]] [[language]], ''narration'' has more than one [[meaning]]. In its broadest context, n
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• Decomposition Laya
  ...ewis Rowell explains that Tal “derives from a physical [[metaphor]]: the [[Indo-European]] root *TEL means a broad flat surface, and the [[Sanskrit]] tala signifies
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• Names
  ...kespeare]] as "The Bard", recognizing him as a [[paragon]] writer of the [[language]]. Finally, claims to preference or [[authority]] can be refuted: the Briti ...atin nomen, and Greek ὄνομα (onoma), possibly from the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE): *nomn-.[2]
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• Crystal
  ...n Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition: Appendix I: Indo-European Roots, 2000, https://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE243.html .
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• Urantia Book Etymology & Human Languages
  ...sillusionment]] from a [[linguistic]] inquiry of its pages. Names, and all language are [[metaphors]] -- symbolic designations of realities, couched in greater ...t that "God" is an obvious Anglicism, and certainly [[English]] is not the language of currency in [[Paradise]], no more than is [[Latin]] or [[Hebrew]]. Never
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• Intellectual History
  ...struction]], destablizes the relationship between language and objects the language refers to (scholarly sources [[Jean-François Lyotard|Lyotard]], [[Jacques
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• 79:6 Dawn of Chinese Civilization
  ...ss than twelve million, they formed a compact [[body]] speaking a common [[language]]. During this age they built up a real [[nation]], much more united and [[
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• Deity
  ...of as a counterpart to humans. In the reconstructed and hypothetical Proto-Indo-European, humans were described as ''chthonian'' ("earthly") as opposed to the deiti ...[monotheistic]] and assert the existence of a unique deity. In the English language, the [[common noun]] ''god'' is equivalent to ''deity'', while ''[[God]]''
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• Theology
  ...mology+shining&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us], "divine" coms ultimately from an Indo-European word meaning “shining.”</ref> The meaning of the word "theologia"/"theo ...ic [[discipline]] which investigated the coherence and implications of the language and claims of the Bible and of the theological tradition (the latter often
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• Oral Tradition
  ...ionality]]” and “[[textuality]].” Very large units would be defined ([[The Indo-European Return Song]]) and areas outside of [[epic poetry|military epic]] would com ...explore the implications of the theory for [[rhetoric]] and [[composition (language)|composition]], [[intergroup communication]], [[postcolonial studies]], [[r
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• Languages and Literature
  ...fically on the use of language by humans see the main article on [[natural language]]. == Properties of language ==
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• The Sciences
  ...n comes from {{lang|la|''scio''}}. 'I know'. The [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] root means to discern or to separate, akin to [[Sanskrit]] {{transl|sa|'' ...f inquiry or study." From the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 20
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• Science
  ...which in turn comes from ''scio''. 'I know'. The [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] root means to discern or to separate, akin to [[Sanskrit]] ''chyati'', he ...f inquiry or study." From the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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• Anthropology
  ...nciples and that could be observed empirically. In some ways, studying the language, culture, physiology, and artifacts of European colonies was not unlike stu ...with multiple, distinct cultures, often very different in organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on [[cross-cultural
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• Mortal Knowlege: The Originary Event, & The Emergence of the Sacred
  ...nt will be compared. Next, brief considerations on a minimal definition of language will be followed by a look at the suddenness and revelatory aspects of its hypothesis per se—that human language, and with it, humanity itself, came into being in an event—has a higher l
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• God
  ...oto-Germanic *''ǥuđan''. Most linguists agree that the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form *ǵhu-tó-m was based on the root *ǵhau(ə)-, which meant either "to In the [[English]] language the capitalization continues to represent a distinction between monotheisti
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• Evil
  ...*Ubilaz'', comparable to the Hittite ''huwapp-'' ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European form ''*wap-'' and suffixed zero-grade form ''*up-elo-''. Other later Germa ...off our feelings towards the person we are harming. He cites the use of [[language]] in Nazi Germany as being a key to how the German people were able to do t
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• Paper 79 - Andite Expansion in the Orient
  ...ss than twelve million, they formed a compact [[body]] speaking a common [[language]]. During this age they built up a real [[nation]], much more united and [[
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• Creation
  ...and the night. Farro was transformed into a human being and was taught the language of creation by Mangala. Farro's knowledge of words is very powerful and the ...idea of two primordial spirits, called twins by Zoroaster, goes back to an Indo-European prototype. Although the idea of dualism came from the idea that "god" coul
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