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  • {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Shangdi| image_name=Jitian.jpg| image_desc=Annual heavenly sacrifice in honor of the Highest Deity ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi ...
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  • ==Etymology 1== From Middle English wast, waste (a waste), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (a waste), from Frankish *wōstī ...
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  • ==Etymology 1== From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (milk), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto ...
    3 KB (438 words) - 22:56, 29 August 2023
  • ==Etymology 1== From Middle English ferme, farme (rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme ...
    3 KB (437 words) - 15:55, 1 May 2024
  • ==Etymology== From Middle English pees, pes, pais, borrowed from Anglo-Norman peis and Old French pais (peace), from Latin pāx (peace), from ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynċe, from Latin uncia (“Roman inch, various similar units”), ultimately ...
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  • ==Etymology== Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (fantasy), from Latin phantasia (imagination), from Ancient ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English fōda (food), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdō, from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (food ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English shryne, from Old English scrīn (reliquary, ark of the covenant), from Medieval Latin scrīnium (reliquary, ...
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  • Sogdiana or Sogdia ( Суғд - Old Persian: Sughuda; سغد ; 粟特 - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (field where crops are grown), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto ...
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  • Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity of the Zoroastrian faith, which is called by its adherents Mazdayasna (meaning "the worship of Mazda ...
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  • {{Navbox |name = Language phonologies |title = Phonologies of the world's languages |listclass = hlist |state = autocollapse} ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (sword), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English crede, from Old English crēda, crēdo, from Latin crēdō (I believe), from Proto-Italic *krezdō, from Proto ...
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  • Indra is the most important deity in ancient Vedic Hinduism and the supreme deva (god) of the Rigveda scripture. Known as the god of storms and ...
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  • split may have occurred between the early Indo-Aryans and Iranians. (The cognate word in Avestan is daēva and in Zoroastrianism ahuras are supreme ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French bœuf); from ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English song, sang, from Old English sang, from Proto-West Germanic *sangu, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing ...
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