The Indo-European family of languages includes most of the languages of Europe and many of Southwest, Central and South Asia. It is
As in English, French relative pronouns link a dependent clause to a main clause, but there is no one-to-one English equivalent for them.
In the late Middle Ages, the Anglo-French word pelfre, meaning 'booty' or 'stolen goods,' was borrowed into English as pelf with the added meaning of 'property.' (Pelfre is also an ancestor of the
It's easy to guess what puts the fly in gadfly: in its oldest meaning, fly refers to a winged insect. But (gadzooks what about the gad? As a standalone English word, gad means 'chisel,' but it once
Modern statue representing Rollo Duke of Normandy (836 - 931). Seen in Rouen, France. In 885ad Rollo was in a party of Vikings that besieged Isle de Paris. When Parisians asked to by taken to their chieftain, Rollo said 'we are all chieftains'. The legend on this statue seems to say "We will remain masters and lords". The title 'Duke' was probably not actually adopted in Rollo's lifetime.
Episode 022-October 21, 2014 As we did with baptism records in episode #13, today we look at the components of a marriage record. In Language Tip #22, we cover some of the common French words or phrases found in most marriage records. In the main segment, we inspect the record segment by segment, covering some […]
How are the English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish inter-related through the Celts?
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King of England House of Normandy Henry I of England, King of England, was born 13 June 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom to William I of England (1027-1087) and Matilda of Flanders (c1031-1083) and died 1 December 1135 St. Denis-le-Fermont near Gisors, Picardy, Lyons-la-Forêt, Eure, France of food poisoning from eating a surfeit of lampreys. He married Matilda of Scotland (c1080-1118) 11 November 1100 JL in Westminster Abbey, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. He married A
House of Plantagenet, royal house of England, which reigned from 1154 to 1485 and provided 14 kings, 6 of whom belonged to the cadet houses of Lancaster and York. The royal line descended from the union between Geoffrey, count of Anjou (died 1151), and the empress Matilda, daughter of the English king Henry I.
Antigone Giving Burial to Polynices. 1825. Sébastien Norblin. French 1796-1884. oil/canvas. Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts. Paris. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
I am God and no mortal, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath. Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, “I dwell in the high and holy pla…
Echelon is a useful word for anyone who is climbing the ladder of success. It traces back to scala, a Late Latin word meaning 'ladder' that was the ancestor of the Old French eschelon, meaning 'rung
The Middle English word trist, from which tristful is derived, means 'sad.' Today, we spell this word triste (echoing the spelling of its French ancestor, a descendant of the Latin tristis), whereas
It's easy to guess what puts the fly in gadfly: in its oldest meaning, fly refers to a winged insect. But (gadzooks what about the gad? As a standalone English word, gad means 'chisel,' but it once
