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1 day ago · Nantes (/ nɒ̃t /, US also / nɑːnt (s)/; 3 4 5 French: [nɑ̃t] ⓘ; Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt [nɑ̃ (ː)t]; 6 Breton: Naoned [ˈnãunət]) [ 7 ] is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 320,732 in Nantes proper and ...
1 day ago · Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [12] The input text had to be translated into English first ...
1 day ago · Ossetian is the sole survivor of the branch of Iranian languages known as Scythian. The Scythian group included numerous tribes, known in ancient sources as the Scythians, the Massagetae, the Saka, the Sarmatians, the Alans, and the Roxolani. The more easterly Khwarazm and Sogdians were also closely affiliated in linguistic terms.
1 day ago · [b] which the English word "genie" is derived from. The origin of the word jinn remains uncertain. [ 3 ] (p22) Some scholars relate the Arabic term jinn to the Latin genius – a guardian spirit of people and places in Roman religion – as a result of syncretism during the reign of the Roman empire under Tiberius and Augustus ; [ 9 ] however, this derivation is also disputed.
1 day ago · Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain(24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), better known as Philippe Pétain(French:[filippetɛ̃]) and Marshal Pétain(French: Maréchal Pétain), was a French general who commanded the French Armyin World War Iand later became the head of the collaborationistregime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during ...
1 day ago · The word beef is from the Latin word bōs, [1] in contrast to cow which is from Middle English cou (both words have the same Indo-European root *gʷou-). [2]This is one example of the common English dichotomy between the words for animals (with largely Germanic origins) and their meat (with Romanic origins) that is also found in such English word-pairs as pig/pork, deer/venison, sheep/mutton ...
1 day ago · A Haitian Creole speaker, recorded in the United States. Haitian Creole (/ ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l /; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; [6] [7] French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl a.i.sjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti ...
