Search results for "French language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The word camphor derives from the French word camphre, itself from ... would call to buy camphor. In the Indian language Sanskrit, the word karpoor ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- ===Pre-French Protectorate era=== The area which is today Casablanca ... around 12,000 within a few years of the French conquest and arrival of French ...20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
- the source of the Niger River. Although French efforts at pacification began ... became an autonomous state within the French Community, and it reached ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2023
- Gabriel Urbain Fauré May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French ... years. He studied with several prominent French musicians, including Camille ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- is divided into two parts, between the French Republic and the Kingdom ... retains its own distinct flavor, with the French side reflecting quiet elegance ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- quot; first entered the English Language around 1912. Derived from ... was witnessing a general strike on the French railroads. Tired of waiting ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 18:32, 22 December 2022
- Since her classes were taught in classic French rather than the local Gascon ... #039; or 'it' in the Gascon language. |right|250px|Saint ...11 KB (1,754 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various ... best manuscript is written in Anglo-Norman French and the Latinized name of ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- However, the term shallot also is used for other plants. The French ... Allium oschaninii, the French Gray shallot, has a long bulb, covered ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- system. The conquest changed the English language and culture, and set the ... Viking settlement. In the year 911, French Carolingian ruler Charles ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- joining the British and the Choctaw the French. During the American Civil ... are related to the Choctaws, who speak a language very similar to the Chickasaw ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:20, 10 December 2023
- in the seventeenth century, originally a French word that combined the Latin ... of c. 1800 B.C.E. to the Hittite language. When the cuneiform script ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- |langs=English, Míkmaq, French |related=other Algonquian peoples ... Mi'kmaq comes from a word in their language meaning "allies." ...22 KB (3,368 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- the latter consciously modeled on the French Encyclopedie. His collaborators ... rejeced the positivist treatment of language in general and, in particular ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- ravaged their population, and when the French and Indian Wars led to increasing ... of the Dawn Land" in the Abenaki language—from wôban ("dawn ...20 KB (2,915 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- appearing in Robert de Boron's French poem, Merlin (late twelfth ... Merlin, part of the Post-Vulgate Cycle of French Arthurian literature of the ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- encouraged by the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Napoleon ... in the German image in the way that the French and the British tried to ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- philosophy" were introduced by French philosopher Claude-Henri ... French philosopher Auguste Comte (1789-1857)—for seven years a student ...11 KB (1,561 words) - 05:45, 30 November 2022
- independent of the Academies). The French Academy regions are similar ... body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, wide-ranging vocabulary ... he worked as a civil servant for the French Ministry of the Interior ...9 KB (1,248 words) - 03:25, 6 August 2022
