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"Come, now, De Beauce, friends all, amantium irae, you know--which is Latin for love--and I will sing you a stave in praise of this good wine, which is better than Bacchus ever drank."

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  1. pronoun What particular one or ones: Which of these is yours?
  2. pronoun The one or ones previously mentioned or implied, specifically:
  3. pronoun Used as a relative pronoun in a clause that provides additional information about the antecedent: my house, which is small and old.
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  • They began in May 2005 by setting 50+ engineers loose on the new engine called Dunia which is Swahili for Earth. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Cuba experts said the appointments by Raul Castro -- widely viewed as a pragmatist -- were in line with a military reform model called "perfeccionamiento empresarial" -- a Spanish term which translates as "perfecting the (state) company system" and indicates an underlying support for that system. —  Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines
  • Oct 3rd 2008 3: 09AM 大ãã „ is ookii which is Japanese for big. the first symbol is Kanji but the second two are hiragana which is only used in Japanese. they can also spell it without using kanji like this ãŠãŠãã „ —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • But the aufruf - which is Yiddish for the phrase "calling up" - is no joking matter but a sacred obligation and custom for a groom.
  • The other eighty-five percent of the Muslims are called the Sunnīs, a term which comes from the Arabic word sunnah or "practice [of the Prophet]." —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hwilc; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English which, whuch, hwuch (also unassibilated hwic), a reduced form, with loss of orig. l, of *whilch, whulch, wilche, hwilch, wulch, hwulch, assibilated forms of whilk, while, whalc, hwulc (later Se. whilk, quhilk), from Anglo-Saxon hwilc, hwylc, hwelc = Old Saxon hwilīk = OFries. hwelīk, hwelk, hwek = Dutch welk = Middle Low German Low German welk = Old High German hwelīh, welīh, wielih, welich, welch, Middle High German welch, welich, German welche, which, = Icelandic hvīlīkr, of what kind, = Swedish Danish hvilken, masculine, hvilket, neuter, = Goth, hweileiks, which; from hwa, the stem of Anglo-Saxon hwā, etc., who, + Anglo-Saxon -līe, etc., a formative seen also in such (which is closely parallel phonetically to which), each, etc.
  2. from Middle English whicche, whyche, whucche, variant of hucche, etc.: see hutch.
 

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