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i need the word, the meaning, and a story of how they got the word. Please help me!

2007-02-08 10:22:22 · 2 answers · asked by Sara Z 1 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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take aboriginal as example

from L. Aborigines "the first inhabitants" (especially of Latium), possibly a tribal name, or from ab origine, lit. "from the beginning." Extended 1789 to natives of other countries which Europeans have colonized. Australian slang shortening Abo attested from 1922.

or the word algebra

1551, from M.L. from Arabic al jebr "reunion of broken parts" as in computation, used 9c. by Baghdad mathematician Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi as the title of his famous treatise on equations ("Kitab al-Jabr w'al-Muqabala" "Rules of Reintegration and Reduction"), which also introduced Arabic numerals to the West. The accent shifted 17c. from second syllable to first. The word was used in Eng. 15c.-16c. to mean "bone-setting," probably from the Arabs in Spain.

2007-02-08 10:27:01 · answer #1 · answered by the truth 4 · 0 0

Did You know that apparently the word "Terrorist" was coined by Adolf Hitler when He was making a speach about the activities of the French Resistance?

2007-02-08 18:33:07 · answer #2 · answered by Ashleigh 7 · 0 0

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