OVERGANG

Etymology 1

Verb

overgang (third-person singular simple present overgangs, present participle overganging, simple past and past participle overganged)

(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To go beyond or above; to exceed.

Etymology 2

Noun

overgang (plural overgangs)

(dialectal or obsolete) Something that goes across or over; a transition.

Source: Wiktionary



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INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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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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