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| − | + | * '''nyanza:''' (''Bantu'') a lake | |
| − | + | * '''Albert Nyanza:''' Joyce, ''Letters'' 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver) → [[Page_89|FW 089.27]] [[No answer]] | |
| − | + | * '''Albert Nyanza:''' Lake Albert, in East Africa, one of the principal sources of the Nile → [[the secrest of their soorcelossness]] a few lines above | |
| + | **([[HCE]]) + A second principal source being Victoria Nyanza ([[ALP]]) | ||
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| + | * '''No answer:''' Mark Twain, ''Tom Sawyer'', p. 1 | ||
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| + | * '''ní hannsa:''' (''Irish'') [it] is not difficult; in medieval Irish literature this was the standard formula used to introduce the answer to a question or riddle | ||
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| + | [[Category:Irish phrases]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Bantu phrases]] | ||
Latest revision as of 07:34, 27 February 2020
- nyanza: (Bantu) a lake
- Albert Nyanza: Lake Albert, in East Africa, one of the principal sources of the Nile → the secrest of their soorcelossness a few lines above
- No answer: Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, p. 1
- ní hannsa: (Irish) [it] is not difficult; in medieval Irish literature this was the standard formula used to introduce the answer to a question or riddle
