Sentences with phrase «from germanic»

Past history speaks about the evolutionary changes influencing our language from the Germanic, Latinate / Romance, Norman and French cultures.

With notable outliers — including a stoney - eyed Eminem, a boyish Marc Jacobs, and scenes from Germanic mythology — the gallery shows several of Peyton's portrayals of peers, comrades, and inspirations, namely Robert Mapplethorpe, David Hockney, Pierre Huyghe, Matthew Barney, Alex Katz, and Nate Lowman.

Others like that are Brynhildr, whose origins stem from Germanic mythology, trading in horseback for horsepower in the form of a deadly motorcycle.

With a base price of under $ 20K (with destination and handling) you might expect the list of standard equipment to be short and the list of optional extras to be long; this is where Suzuki's product team departed from the Germanic model.

In some ways it makes for a refreshing departure from the Germanic norm in this class of car, but in others it a remains curiously flawed machine, even though it does fit right in amongst the streets of Monaco.

The 3 - box sedan design in side profile may appear similar to that of the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes - Benz C Class, but the devil in the details is far from Germanic.

Like the Lupo, it benefits from Germanic build quality, and is a right hoot to drive thanks to the diminutive dimensions.

The name was introduced to the British Isles by the Normans from the Germanic pet name for Ali meaning «other» or «foreign».

North Africa and parts of Italy and Spain were retaken from the Germanic invaders.

It makes me shudder that every time we talk about money in our Bible study group, one person says «ah but are we not told to favor kith and kin, it does not surprise me that saying comes from our Germanic blood, as can be seen from the German chancellor Angela Mercoles attitude to Europe, lets not go there.

Remember that «gospel» is derived from the Anglo - Saxon word «godspel,» which is itself derived from the Germanic «gut spil.»

Not exact matches

From this 11th - century Northern Germanic origin, the word has blazed a mighty path into the vernacular of the 21st - century modern life.

The roots of its grammar are Germanic, but its vocabulary comes mostly from Romance languages.

«Old English cirice, circe «church, public place of worship; Christians collectively,» from West Germanic * kirika (cf. Old Saxon kirika, Old Norse kirkja, Old Frisian zerke, Middle Dutch kerke, Dutch kerk, Old High German kirihha, German Kirche), probably [see note in OED] from Greek kyriake (oikia), kyriakon doma «Lord's (house),» from kyrios «ruler, lord,» from PIE root * keue - «to swell» - etymonline.com

In Europe, Charlemagne, who in 800 A.D. became the first emperor in western Europe, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier and who was a pivotal figure in the Christianization of Europe, issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which prescribed death for Saxons who refused to convert from their native Germanic paganism to Christianity.

So it's silly to try to push this notion that white Romans, white Germanic people are of the same group as the Jews who are what... a hundred miles from black Egypt??

Jesus is Jewish of the Sephardic variant... Good old St. Nick being Germanic in origin (ficticious) as he may be would qualify as «white» from the common mis - understanding of «white», which as we can see from this conversation itself isn't clearly defined.

The first is that most of the Germanic world broke away from Rome.

The fact is Jesus was born in the middle of the ancestoral homeland of Jews 2000 years ago, where in the story does it describe him coming from the CAucus mountains or some Germanic state?

The belief in multiple GODs (the word GOD is taken from the 6th century CE Germanic language) was widely accepted and only varied by type (and special abilities) depending the region you lived in.

HE wasn't from the Caucas mountains, he wasn't germanic, he wasn't Aryan, it» pretty clear here... on this one.

Certainly English encompasses as many influences as any language in the world, compounded as it is of Germanic and romance languages, Latin and Greek, with borrowings from almost every tongue.

However, I had one advantage: having just returned from Europe, I had some sense of how Germanic people spoke English words.

He raised armies, successfully withstood the attacks of the Lombards, the latest of the Germanic barbarians to invade Italy, made his authority respected in Italy, Sicily, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, attempted to curb the abuses in the Church in the Frankish domains, inaugurated the Roman mission to Britain, preached frequently, endeavored to enforce clerical celibacy, prompted monasticism and improved the quality of life in some of the houses which were lapsing from their professed ideals, and was the author of voluminous writings on theology that were long standard in the West.

As we have seen and will remind ourselves a little later, on entering the Empire many of the Germanic peoples were Arian Christians, and were separated from the Roman population, which was Catholic.

Although many were begun and drew much of their strength from the descendants of the Germanic invaders, in the former Roman realms these «barbarians» had been partly assimilated to the culture into which pre-Christian Roman and Christian elements had entered.

And English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo - Frisian dialects brought to Britainin the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo - Saxon settlers from what is now northwest Germany, west Denmark and the Netherlands, displacing the Celtic languages that previously predominated.

Manager Chris Hughton is altogether less Germanic than Klopp and Wagner but seemed astute enough to borrow from their blueprint.

Questions related to the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer.

Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm of fairy tale fame, used the comparative method to show how Germanic languages developed from a common ancestor.

Hailed as the first «German» hero, he was said to have united the Germanic tribes and driven the Romans from their territory.

The Anglo - Saxon Chronicle recounts that in 449 C.E., two Germanic tribespeople, Hengist and Horsa, sailed from what is now the Netherlands to southeast England, starting a fierce conflict.

That was considered the start of a period when fearsome Germanic tribes such as the Vandals swept around Europe, wresting territory from Romans and others.

There are hints of polygyny in Germanic cultures from this time, though researchers aren't sure of its extent in Viking society or in the Vendel era.

There is no inevitable route from Goethe to Goebbels, but the notion of Bildung — the process of self - cultivation and education that pervaded the Germanic - Nordic intellectual world — bred a patriarchal and patriotic conservatism that made it all but impossible for academics in Germany to resist the Nazis.

The name of the city is derived from two Germanic words meaning reed and open space, i.e., a marsh in a forest glade.

The baddies of the piece, brothers Dmitri (Adrien Brody) and Jopling (Willem Dafoe, replete with Max Schreck - style lower - jaw fangs), have a mild germanic lilt, while there is French dialogue from Seydoux and Mathieu Amalric.

Baird's direction is of a similarly heedless, knockabout nature, filching from other filmmakers with magpie abandon: Kubrick in the sweaty, distortive use of closeup, Fassbinder in an arch, unexpectedly resolved strain of Germanic camp, and Gilliam in Robertson's fantasy sessions with swollen - headed shrink Jim Broadbent — perhaps the film's least successful flight of fancy.

Arthur is situated as the leader of a small band of Roman cavalry stationed at Hadrian's Wall in the late 5th century, at the time Rome pulled out from Britannia in the wake of Germanic and Gothic incursions throughout the Western Empire.

From my supprosings of Neanderthals talking mostly about dead animal, «Zug Zug, thag like meat good,» to the eventual emergence of Indo - European and Semetic languages, branching into Altaic, Germanic, AfroAsiatic, and others.

Aside from some intrusive tire noise, the A3 does a fine job mimicking the Germanic - fortress feel of larger Audis.

From the smoothly applied, glossy paint to the tight - fitting interior and exterior panels, the Contour has Germanic built - to - last feel.

In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language from its modest beginnings around 500 A.D. as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language.

Sunday is derived from the Scandinavian / Germanic word Sonntag - sun day.

One was brought with them by the Germanic colonists from the West who flocked into the Slav lands between the Elbe and the Oder as these were conquered.

One common belief is they travelled with Germanic tribes and descended from Asian herding dogs.

After World War I, the breed's name was changed to American Eskimo, to remove any Germanic sound from it.

For the last 35,000 years Spain has been settled, invaded and controlled by various races from the Ancient Greeks and Romans to the Germanic Visigoths and the Moors of northern Africa.

Switzerland's history follows a similar path to that of many other European countries in that its earliest settlers were displaced by the attentions of the Roman Empire, which prospered here in the first and second centuries AD but began to decline under pressure from Europe's Germanic tribes in the fourth century.

From Innsbruck, we continue north across the Austro - Germanic border to the small, quaint town of Oberammergau.