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almsgiving
noun
the act of donating money, food, or other items to poor or needy people, especially as a spiritual practice.
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Almsgiving 鈥渢he act of donating to needy people鈥� is a compound of alms 鈥渄onations to needy people鈥� and giving. The seemingly simple word alms has a complicated history; it is a contraction of Old English 忙濒尘别蝉蝉别, which was borrowed from Late Latin 别濒别脓尘辞蝉测苍补, source of 51吃瓜 of the Day eleemosynary. While most words of Latin origin passed into Middle English by way of Old French, a minority of terms were borrowed into Old English directly from later versions of the Latin language. Other examples of early borrowings include chalk, cheese, cook, street, wall, and wine. Turning back to Late Latin, 别濒别脓尘辞蝉测苍补 derives from Ancient Greek 别濒别脓尘辞蝉媒苍脓 鈥渃ompassion,鈥� from 茅濒别辞蝉 鈥减颈迟测.鈥� Almsgiving was first recorded in English long before the year 1000 AD.
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Panhandling is a basic form of charitable solicitation with a long history. Almsgiving dates back to the days of ancient Greece and the Bible. Instead of asking for help on behalf of an animal shelter, food pantry or any other kind of nonprofit, the panhandlers ask for help satisfying their own personal need. In case after case, the courts have clearly ruled that the Constitution safeguards the right to make personal pitches the same way that it protects the ability of organizations to make their own asks.
The pandemic has given a boost to philanthropy in Latin America, but it is also a threat. Donors have less money to give or are shifting it to public health from other good causes …. The Latin American countries with the largest philanthropic sectors are Mexico and Colombia, according to a study published in 2018. Their foundations鈥� assets are worth 1% of annual gdp, compared with 4.8% in the United States. Ordinary folk seem less altruistic than in other regions, though the tradition of almsgiving through the church remains strong.
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丑补膷别办
noun
a diacritic (藝) placed over a letter in some languages, as Czech and Lithuanian, and in some systems of phonetic transcription, especially to indicate that a sound is palatalized.
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贬补膷别办 鈥渁 diacritic (藝) placed over a letter to indicate that a sound is palatalized鈥� is a borrowing from Czech 丑谩膷别办 鈥渟mall hook,鈥� a diminutive of 丑谩办 鈥渉ook.鈥� The resemblance between 丑谩办 and English hook is not a coincidence; 丑谩办 is adapted from Middle High German 丑腻办别苍 (compare modern German Haken) and is cognate to English hook and heckle, Dutch haak 鈥渉ook鈥� and hoek 鈥渃orner,鈥� and Icelandic haki 鈥減ick鈥� and 丑忙办箩补 鈥渃rutch.鈥� An alternative name for the 丑补膷别办 is caron, which is of unknown origin, though one hypothesis鈥攂ased purely on spelling similarity, so take it with a grain of salt鈥攊s that caron is based on caret (^) and/or macron (炉). 贬补膷别办 was first recorded in English in the early 1950s.
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There鈥檚 another way to type accents on the Mac and some people find it much easier. Simply press and hold the letter you want to accent and a pop-over menu will appear showing the options. So, e yields seven options and a has eight alternative versions … This means more accents can be accommodated. The inverted circumflex or caron or 丑补膷别办 鈥� does not have a keyboard shortcut. Instead, you need to follow the long-press technique on the letter c and it鈥檒l appear as the third option. Again, without letting go of the c, tap the 3 key and you鈥檙e golden.
Four … consonants [in the Czech language] are created by adding a 丑补膷别办, literally a 鈥渓ittle hook,鈥� above the letters c, r, s, and z. As a result, 膷 is equivalent to 鈥渃h鈥� in 鈥渃heese,鈥� 拧 to 鈥渟h,鈥� and 啪 to 鈥渮h鈥� as in 鈥渓eisure.鈥� The sound 艡, distinctive of the Czech language, is considered virtually unpronounceable by foreigners. Something like a combination r plus 啪, it occurs, to give a famous and familiar example, in the name of the composer Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k (usually, “Dvor-zhak”).
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sennachie
noun
a professional storyteller of family genealogy, history, and legend.
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Sennachie 鈥渁 professional storyteller of family history鈥� is borrowed from Scottish Gaelic seanachaidh, which comes from Old Irish senchae or senchaid 鈥渉istorian.鈥� The sen- element in these Old Irish terms means 鈥渙ld, ancient鈥� and is cognate with Latin senex 鈥渙ld; an elder.鈥� From senex (stem sen-), English inherits senate, senescent, and senile, all of which pertain to elders, either in age or in society. The comparative form of senex is senior 鈥渙lder,鈥� which is the source of senior, sir, and surly as well as French seigneur, Italian signore, and Spanish 蝉别帽辞谤. Sennachie was first recorded in English in the 1530s.
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Although the Irish folk-tales are largely the same as other folk-tales throughout the world, the method of narrating them in Ireland became very elaborate over time …. The skill involved was recognized beyond the Gaeltacht, such that the Irish word for a professional storyteller鈥�senchai, or its Scottish Gaelic cognate seanchaidh鈥攚as borrowed into English as shannaghes (plural) as early as 1534; it is now usually spelled seannachie or sennachie.
It was the sennachie who first told me I was special. He had come to teach my eldest brother, David. The sennachie is the holder of the family story, the keeper of the genealogy, the remembrancer of all that makes a clan or a family…
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