Search results for "German language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- which means "beloved." The old German name for the city is Laibach. ... spoke Slovene, with most of the rest using German. In 1550, the first two books ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
- stems from either the French motiver or the German motivieren. The word first appeared in English in 1904.[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term ...18 KB (2,702 words) - 17:02, 10 November 2022
- of 450,000. Before 1920 it went by the German name "Pressburg." ... In 1042 the city was destroyed by German King Henry I. More plight ...38 KB (5,662 words) - 22:52, 20 November 2023
- and closely wrought, full of intricate language, but the dominant feature ... school with a view to learning French and German, so that he could take up ...17 KB (2,461 words) - 05:26, 31 July 2023
- the League to the rebuilding of the North German town of Lübeck in 1159 by ... German cities achieved domination of trade in the Baltic with striking ...33 KB (4,832 words) - 05:08, 25 June 2024
- to a fundamental "ground rule" (German,Grundnorm) whose universal ... he was three years old, his family, of German-speaking, Jewish and middle ...17 KB (2,504 words) - 05:06, 25 June 2024
- Jewish customs in such areas as dress, language, and music ... In the early 1800s, elements within German Jewry sought to reform ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- Kant’s immediate predecessors, the great German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz ... was a reaction to the intervening systems (German Idealism and Positivism) ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- family spoke mostly Yiddish, but also German, Hungarian, and Romanian ... or had been forced to sell out to the Nazi-German government as part of the ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his mother’s ... two hundred years, and versions exist in German, French, Italian, Dutch, ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- 1856), better known as Max Stirner, was a German philosopher, who ranks as ... Stirner was a member of a group of German intellectuals calling themselves ...35 KB (5,494 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- minority of these preserves the Hungarian language and tradition. ... (mostly due to the strong English language pressure in tourism and ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- in 1874. Following papal mediation and German compensation of US$4.5 million ... Islands. Marshallese is an Austronesian language that shares characteristics ...23 KB (3,267 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- 17, 1954, in Hamburg, West Germany), is a German politician and scientist ... north of Berlin, in the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- dialects of Old English and Ostara in German. In England, the annual festive ... In most languages, other than English, German, and some Slavic languages ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 17:05, 10 October 2020
- Nemanjići; Anglicized: Nemanyid; German: Nemanjiden) was a medieval Serbian ruling dynasty which presided over the short-lived Serbian Empire ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 18:44, 7 February 2024
- Seferis helped to introduce the poetry of Symbolism to the Greek language ... and a supporter of the demotic Greek language over the formal, official ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 12:54, 22 May 2024
- To the east, Luxembourg borders the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate ... of William I, but also included within the German Confederation, with a Prussian ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- of Brest-Litovsk, in (left to right) [[German language|German]], Hungarian ... The language of treaties, like that of any law or contract, must be ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- may have been a French corruption of the German word Eidgenosse, meaning ... "a combination of a Flemish and a German word. In the Flemish ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
