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Apostolic bull: A document that derives its name from the Latin bulla , meaning "leaden seal," which is used to imprint the reigning pope's insignia, or seal, on the document.
Memsahib `term of respect for a European lady,' for example, derives from English ma'am and Hindi sahib `sir, master,' a word borrowed by Hindi from Arabic; boxwallah `peddler' combines English box and Hindi wallah `person in charge of a particular thing'; chotapeg `half-sized drink' unites Hindi chota `little, small' and English peg (Anglo-Indian slang since at least 1864 for a drink, especially of brandy and soda water); and shroffage `commission charged for shroffing' combines shroff (an adaptation of Hindi saraf `banker, money-lender,' a word borrowed from Arabic) and the English suffix - age . Combinations of Hindi and Persian elements include:
Also, it should be understood that American Grammar , while it happens to deal with illustrations from American English, describes the grammar of most of English: the title derives from the association with America of the particular kind of grammatical analysis described: except for a few anomalous differences, the grammars of the major dialects of English are, of course, uniform.
Atom derives from the combining form a- (from the Greek a meaning not and the Greek tomos , meaning cut).
Hype derives from hyperbole , and when it came into use in the '60s, it was used, in much the way overhyped is used today, to refer to something praised far in excess of its value ("Sergeant Pepper has been hyped as a masterpiece, but the fact is, most of the songs on it aren't of the first rank").
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