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    Mot (Phoenician: 𐤌𐤕 mūt, Hebrew: מות māweṯ, Arabic: موت mawt) was the Canaanite god of death and the Underworld. He was also known to the people of...
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  • Blend word (redirect from Mot-valise)
    In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and...
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  • French: mot phonétique) is a sequence of morphemes clustered around one nuclear stress. A phonetic word may contain more than one lexical item. It may...
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    Loanword (redirect from Lexical borrowing)
    use of the French term déjà vu, are known as adoptions, adaptations, or lexical borrowings. Although colloquial and informal register loanwords are typically...
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    des pluriels: 5000 mots. Chatou: Éditions Carnot. p. 35. ISBN 2-84855-114-3. "Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (CNRTL)". Retrieved...
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  • Lexical diffusion is the hypothesis that a sound change is an abrupt change that spreads gradually across the words in a language to which it is applicable...
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    Paris, 1895, page 738, in Lexicographie du mot tomme ou tome, Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales. Lire en ligne [1] Consulté le 20 janvier...
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    auxiliary verb lacks this form. (A corresponding lexical verb may have the form. For example, although the lexical verb need has a preterite form, the modal...
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  • first time between these two dates. After this period, the scale of the lexical borrowing decreased sharply, though French loan words have continued to...
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    based solely on lexical resemblances, which retained as much as 85% of Wurm's hypothesis, though some of it tentatively. The strongest lexical evidence for...
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