Methods. I critically analyzed the most common Greek words used as taxa names in the chelonian literature to establish their etymology and check whether the transliteration process has been done correctly. I also compared the current guidelines for the latinisation of Greek words recommended by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, with other alternative systems for the transformat...

A taxonomic and nomenclatural catalog of the phylloxerids (Hemiptera, Phylloxeridae) is presented. Six family-group names are listed, three being synonyms. Thirty-five genus-group names, of which six are subjectively valid, are presented with their type species, etymology, and grammatical gender. Ninety-four species-group names are listed, of which 73 are considered subjectively valid. This is ...

Etymology studies, as it is known, occupy a very important and wide place in the field of Turcology. In essence, etymology study origins that emerges by revealing possible views on word analyzing structures adhering to meaning or meanings word, getting help from other words fall within conceptual field, if any. this respect, kind mental exercise static knowledge production activity. It can be s...

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The etymology of Modern Greek ovci ‘no!’ has never really been in doubt, as the Ancient Greek emphatic negative oujciv ‘not’ is surely its source. However, various details of its development from oujciv remain unaccounted for, in particular the vowel in the initial syllable, the placement of the accent, and the functional shift from ‘not’ to ‘no!’. An explanation that seeks an answer for these ...

In this paper we propose a method for identifying cognates based on etymology and etymons. We employ this approach to evaluate the extent to which lexical similarity can be used for automatic detection of cognate pairs. We investigate some orthographic approaches widely used in this research area and some original metrics as well. We apply this procedure for Romanian and its most closely relate...