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- noun Plural form of
Jute .
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Examples
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Wells creates the same setting for the mass migrations of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes from Western Europe to Britain as not an event that occurred within a hundred years, but something that took place over centuries.
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Even children who see themselves as 100% English, Welsh, Scottish or British are likely to have ancestors who were Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Flemish, Plantagenets from Anjou, or from Germany in the 17th century or Italians, Armenians and Black Africans in the 19th century.
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Old English started out as the language of various tribes of northern Europe – the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons – who strayed to the British Isles and dislodged the Celts.
French/english Translation: the Unusual History of the English Language « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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What is known is that the fifth century was a very turbulent time for Britain with the desertion by Rome and its forces; the invasion of the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes; and the invading forces of the Scots and Picts from Ireland and Scotland respectively.
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What is known is that the fifth century was a very turbulent time for Britain with the desertion by Rome and its forces; the invasion of the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes; and the invading forces of the Scots and Picts from Ireland and Scotland respectively.
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Saxons, and Jutes, after having drifted whence no man knows, poured into Britain, and the English have carried this drift on around the world.
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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The Jutes, Angles and Saxons opposed and bartered with the Romans before relocating to the British Islands and had thus already acquired some Latin phrases before the coalescence of Old English.
French/english Translation: the Unusual History of the English Language « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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The Jutes were followed by larger contingents of Angles and Saxons, just as the Fallohides, the least numerous variety of Hobbits, were followed by larger contingents of Stoors and Harfoots.
superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010
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Wells creates the same setting for the mass migrations of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes from Western Europe to Britain as not an event that occurred within a hundred years, but something that took place over centuries.
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[1] George Hempl translated ipa ama hen naper XII as 'By means of this pail portion out twelve wild boars.' (see link) while Ilse Nesbitt Jones exhibits modern lunacy with ipa ama hen naper XII = 'If (it) is at one with Offspring 12 [...]' in Five texts in Etruscan: early Gothic language of Tyrrhenians and ancient Jutes (2002), p.119 (see link).
Ipa ama hen 2010
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