DANELAW

Etymology

Proper noun

Danelaw

(history) The part of Great Britain in which the laws of the Scandinavians dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.

(history) The set of legal terms and definitions created in the treaties between the English Alfred the Great and the Danish Guthrum the Old.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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