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Anglicisation or
anglicization is a form of
cultural ****imilation
whereby something non-English
becomes ****imilated into or
influenced by the culture...
- colour. In
anglicizing Gaelic names, the
prefixes Mac, Nic, and Ó were
frequently removed (the name Ó Fathaigh, by example, was
sometimes anglicized as Fahey...
- For example,
early patronymic Welsh surnames were the
result of the
Anglicizing of the
historical Welsh naming system,
which sometimes had
included references...
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Biblical Hebrew name
Yohanan (יוֹחָנָן), Seán (
anglicized as Shaun/Shawn/Shon) and Séan (Ulster variant;
anglicized Shane/Shayne),
rendered John in
English and...
- In linguistics,
anglicisation or
anglicization is the
practice of
modifying foreign words, names, and
phrases to make them
easier to spell, pronounce...
- of
their recognized illegitimate children, and by
Irish families when
anglicizing their Gaelic patronymic surnames. In Anglo-Norman England, the gentry...
- Níðhǫggr, [ˈniːðˌhɔɡːz̠], lit. 'Níð-Hewer', "Malice Biter/Striker"?),
often anglicized Nidhogg, is a
Germanic dragon in
Norse mythology who is said to gnaw at...
- An
English exonym is a name in the
English language for a
place (a toponym), or
occasionally other terms,
which does not
follow the
local usage (the endonym)...
- In
Norse mythology, Útgarða-Loki (
Anglicized as Utgarda-Loki, Utgard-Loki, and Utgardsloki) is the
ruler of the
castle Útgarðr in Jötunheimr. He is one...
- The
Twipra Kingdom (Sanskrit: Tripura),
anglicized as Tipperah, was one of the
largest historical kingdoms of the
Tripuri people in
Northeast India. A...
