Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The larvæ of the various dipterous insects of the genus Ephydra, which inhabit the alkali lakes of western North America, and are made into edible cakes: so called by Mexican Indians and Spanish Americans. See Ephydra, ahuatle, and koochahbee.
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Nostraticists often link PIE *bʰeuh₂- to Uralic *puxi 'tree' with an underlying meaning of 'to grow up from the ground' and hence later 'to appear' and 'to become' in PIE.
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Nostraticists often link PIE *bʰeuh₂- to Uralic *puxi 'tree' with an underlying meaning of 'to grow up from the ground' and hence later 'to appear' and 'to become' in PIE.
Semitic and IE in the Neolithic: How intensive was the language contact? 2008
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