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Lagniappe is derived from the South American Spanish phrase la yapa or ñapa (referring to a free extra item, usually a very cheap one). La is the definite article in Spanish as well as in French ( la ñapa or la gniappe = the ñapa/gniappe). The term has been traced back to the Quechua word yapay ('to increase; to add').
Ê is used in Tibetan pinyin to represent /e/, for example Gêrzê County. Ukrainian. Ê is used in the ISO 9:1995 system of Ukrainian transliteration as the letter Є. Vietnamese. Ê is the 9th letter of the Vietnamese alphabet and represents /e/. In Vietnamese phonology, diacritics can be added to form five forms to represent five tones of ê:
É. É or é ( e - acute) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. In English, it is used for loanwords (such as French résumé ), romanization (Japanese Pokémon) or occasionally as a pronunciation aid in poetry. Languages may use é to indicate a certain sound ( French ), stress pattern ( Spanish ), length ( Czech) or tone ( Vietnamese ), as well ...
Mosè Bertoni. Profilo di una vita tra scienza e anarchia. Lugano. Ramella, L. & Y. Ramella-Miquel (1985). Biobibliografía de Moisés Santiago Bertoni. Fl. Paraguay, Ser. Espec. 2. ISBN 0-915279-07-X; Sociedad Científica del Paraguay, A. Barbero 230 y Avenida Artigas, Asunción (Paraguay) Encyclopedia history of Paraguay, published by La ...
Paradeigma ( Greek: παραδειγμα; plural: paradeigmata) is a Greek term for a pattern, example or sample. Its closest translation is "an isolated example by which a general rule illustrated". It is also the etymological root of the English word "paradigm". Limited to rhetoric, a paradeigma is used to compare the situation of the ...
Shawm. The shawm ( / ʃɔːm /) is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day. It achieved its peak of popularity during the medieval and Renaissance periods, after which it was gradually eclipsed by the oboe family of descendant instruments in classical music.
There is controversy about its name e.g. in some ex-Ottoman dependencies, mostly due to nationalistic feelings or political rivalry with Turkey. Armenia. This type of strong coffee is a standard of Armenian households. The main difference is that cardamom is used in Armenian coffee.
Ë, ë ( e - diaeresis) is a letter in the Albanian, Kashubian, Emilian, Romagnol, Ladin, and Lenape [1] alphabets. As a variant of the letter e, it also appears in Acehnese, Afrikaans, Belarusian, Breton, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, Luxembourgish, Piedmontese, Russian, the Abruzzese dialect of the Neapolitan language, and the Ascolano ...