Example sentences for: proto-

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  • This root, or closely related ones, such as * ghol , yield a whole slough of modern English words via various Proto-Germanic and related IE roots: yellow, gild, gall (a yellowish substance), choler, cholera, melancholy black bile, and chlorine , all via Greek kholé yellow bile and Greek chlidé luxury and Proto-Germanic * ghhleid and * glazem: gleam, glint, glimmer, glisten, glass, glaze, gloss, glance, glade, glee, glow, gloaming, glide , and glissade --quite a haul from what is basically a single root!

  • I suggest that these scattered avatars of balagan/balcony evidence descent from a single Proto-Indo-European root, most prolifically in Italian and Persian.

  • Silver is from OE siolfor/seolfor , Proto-Germanic * silubhra , and may not be an Indo-European word at all, but one borrowed from the Semitic language Akkadian (the language of Babylon): sarpu refined metal.

  • Two important differences: As yet, no proto-Hitler figure has emerged in Russia, and Weimar didn't have itself as an example to avoid ...

  • After the failures of the early '80s, he picked himself up and made some more movies: the quirky, proto-Indie downtown comedy After Hours , The Color of Money (a respectable sequel to The Hustler ), and his long dreamed of The Last Temptation of Christ . His fortunes revived with GoodFellas , which was hailed as a return to form, and floundered again with The Age of Innocence , one of his periodic attempts--like The Last Waltz , Temptation and, most recently, Kundun --to defy expectation.


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