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  • The "N word" has roots as old as our nation, while the root's of the derogatory term "bitch" are even older.

    Hayley Rose Horzepa: The N-Word, The B-Word, and Rihanna Hayley Rose Horzepa 2011

  • Jolie Laide: 'Pretty-Ugly' Ingredients With inventive new preparations, the root's culinary fan base is growing.

    Why You Should Dig Turnips Charlotte Druckman 2011

  • For a discussion of this root's presence in words for charms and the sort of protections they afforded in Equatorial Africa, see Vansina, Paths in the Rainforest, 96. back

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • While the consonantism for the Semitic verb "to know" is normally reconstructed as *ydʕ, Old Canaanite Cuneiform Texts of the Third Millennium 1979 speaks on the uncertainty of the root's form on page 193, footnote 11: "It is not clear whether to reconstruct w or y as the initial consonant of the Proto-Semitic root."

    Hey, what do ya know?... 2008

  • While the consonantism for the Semitic verb "to know" is normally reconstructed as *ydʕ, Old Canaanite Cuneiform Texts of the Third Millennium 1979 speaks on the uncertainty of the root's form on page 193, footnote 11: "It is not clear whether to reconstruct w or y as the initial consonant of the Proto-Semitic root."

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • That is, regardless of whether this word is connected to a Proto-Semitic passive participle, I really do suspect that this word once had a laryngeal in the onset because of the root's vocalism.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • That is, regardless of whether this word is connected to a Proto-Semitic passive participle, I really do suspect that this word once had a laryngeal in the onset because of the root's vocalism.

    Pre-IE Syncope has an easter-egg surprise for you 2008

  • Over the centuries, sages in China, India, Japan and Greece have celebrated the root's medicinal qualities in treating a host of ailments ranging from migraines to cholera to inflamed livers.

    Up Close & Edible: Ginger 2007

  • Let us hope and pray that the 'root's' of this industry in death are some how uprooted at the source by the police with some middle management or chief executives within Luton removed from their office, thus disrupting this network in Luton that is almost certainly traced into Fortress Bury Park and the Al Qaeda terrorists who are living there who deal direct with their Moslem brothers in Afghanistan where the Heroin is grown.

    Luton Drugs bust - Operation irradiate Lionheart 2007

  • VAM infection improves plant survival and growth by enhancing the root's ability to absorb moisture, macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients from the soil.

    Chapter 4 1996

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