Sentences with phrase «old germanic»

«Yule» is not a god's name, per se, it's probably an old germanic word for an idea akin to «spirit».

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Christian missionaries lumped all of these people together under the umbrella term «pagan,» said Philip Shaw, who researches early Germanic languages and Old English at Leicester University in the U.K..

«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

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.

Gospel is Old English and Germanic for «gud spel» or «good story, good news.»

For still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowship.

Although it has Germanic roots, the name as we see it spelled today is the form of an Old French spelling of the contracted name Adalheidis.

The white girl with the big hoop earrings, the (fake) diamond stud in her nose, and the tattoo on her left tit of a phoenix, butterfly The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo - European ethno - linguistic group of Northern European origin

The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo - European ethno - linguistic group of Northern European origin When Hessy Taft was six months old, she was a poster child for the Nazis.

No, it's not the newest Teutonic tuner car, nor the sharpest handler, but it has a delectable combination of Germanic solidity and the heart of an old - school muscle car.

Good news, captains of industry tired of seeing the same old Rolls - Royce models: The Anglo - Germanic automaker is planning more ultra-low-volume models, Britain's Autocar reports, citing design chief...

Rivals are, unsurprisingly, of the Germanic variety and include the Mercedes CLS, the old but still competitive BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe, and the all - new Porsche Panamera.

The modern English word blue comes from Middle English bleu or blewe, from the Old French bleu, a word of Germanic origin, related to the Old High German word blao.

In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, Odin was known in Old English as Wōden, in Old Saxon as Wōdan, and in Old High German as Wuotan or Wōtan, all stemming from the reconstructed Proto - Germanic theonym * wōđanaz.

White Cube, Bermondsey The 78 - year - old's Germanic imagination remains as courageous as ever with this visceral and erotic exhibition that unearths perverse beauty in human decline

So they took over almost all of what is now England, and their Germanic language Anglo - Saxon (or Old English) won the day as well.

It originally derived from the old English word «mot» which meant an assembly or meeting, and the Germanic «motian» which meant «to converse.»