-ent
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information)
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-ent suffix repr. F.
-ent — L.
-ēns,
-ent-, prp. ending belonging to the IE. series *
-ont-, *
-ent-, *
-nt-, repr. by Skr.
-ant-, Gr.
-ont-, Goth.
-and-, OE.
-end-. Examples are
confident,
latent,
salient; many such ppl. adjs. had become sbs. in L. or in F.; whence e.g.
agent,
parent,
president,
student; some are names of inanimate objects or abstractions, as
continent,
deterrent,
solvent,
torrent.
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Living Water for a Thirsty Land; Trans World Radio Broadcasts New Songhai Program to West Africans.
PR Newswire; 6/26/2000; 700+ words
; ...crackles and glows, lighting up the dark. Songhai villagers gather to celebrate together...Moroccan army in the late 16th century, the Songhai empire was the largest and most powerful kingdom in medieval West Africa. The Songhai have since watched their once-grand...
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Songhai, an International Restaurant/Club with a Difference!
Newspaper article from: Washington Informer; 1/26/2000; ; 532 words
; ...Sam Washington Informer 01-26-2000 Songhai, an International Restaurant/Club with a Difference! Songhai Restaurant at 1211 U Street, N.W...in Africa that responded to the name, Songhai Empire. What the two names have in common...
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Songhai
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Weekly; 1/12/2005; ; 380 words
; ...to investigate crimes involving guns. Songhai: An Anti-Gun/Anti-Violence Dramatic...dancers and one African stilt-walker, Songhai depicts the 15th-century conflict between the empires of Songhai and Morocco, a feud that led to the first...
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 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
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Proactive programs make tiny Benin a model in the making ; The self-sustaining Songhai Center is one example of how the West African nation is taking a regional lead in confronting climate change.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 8/3/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...in the making ; The self-sustaining Songhai Center is one example of how the West...straggling journalists trailing him around his Songhai Center near Porto Novo, Benin, in West...yogurt, is sold at local markets. The Songhai Center is like that $200 million Arizona...
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Songhai II.
Magazine article from: Guitar Player; 3/1/1995; ; 407 words
; A welcome reprise of one of guitar's most wonderful, if unlikely, collaborations: Past and present members of leading nuevo flamenco group Ketama, kora (21-string African harp) master Diabate, and one-time Pentangle bassist Danny Thompson. Stringed-instrument music doesn't get much more soulful,
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[ Carrying bats and two-by-fours... ]
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...school swarmed the playground of nearby Songhai elementary today and began attacking students...arrested for mob action in the brawl at Songhai, 11725 S. Perry, police said. However...About 8 a.m., the scene outside Songhai just before the opening bell seemed no...
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 "Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Elementary school brawl sends 19 kids to hospital.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 4/5/2002; 700+ words
; ...escalating between pupils at Curtis and Songhai elementary schools, which are just blocks...investigating the cause of the brawl outside of Songhai. But a number of witnesses said they...continuation of an incident on Wednesday that Songhai parents described as an after-school...
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Pupils injured in inter-school melee.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 4/4/2002; 670 words
; ...allegedly attacked their counterparts at Songhai Learning Institute. Police are investigating...from Curtis went to the schoolyard of Songhai _ formerly known as Scanlon Elementary...the Curtis pupils allegedly attacked Songhai pupils who were waiting to enter the school...
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Absentees soar a day after brawl School officials probe lack of warning about feud
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/6/2002; ; 604 words
; Students stayed home in droves from Songhai Learning Institute on Friday, as Chicago...escalated into a playground attack on Songhai students by kids from nearby Curtis Elementary. Only half of Songhai's 956 students showed up Friday, Chicago...
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Kids go on playground rampage, 18 injured Bad blood over egg fight led to melee between rival schools
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/5/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...children pounded on locked doors of the Songhai Learning Institute around 8:30 a.m...stormed the playground--according to some Songhai students, they were clutching baseball...pipes and rocks--and began beating the Songhai kids. Eighteen were sent to hospitals...
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Songhai
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Songhai West African empire, founded c. ad 700...captured the market city of Timbuktu , and the Songhai Empire acquired control of most of the...because of factional in-fighting. The Songhai peoples still control much of the trans...
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Niger
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...main ethnic groups are the Hausa , the Songhai and Djerma (Zarma), the Fulani , the...subsistence type). The Hausa, Kanuri, and Songhai are mainly sedentary farmers, and the...of W and central Niger came under the Songhai empire (centered at Gao on the Niger...
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Mali
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...rest of the empire. After the Moroccan invasion of 1591, the Songhai empire collapsed. Mali was only freed from Moroccan rule at...9%; Senufo 12.0%; Soninke 8.8%; Tuareg 7.3%; Songhai 7.2%; Malinke 6.6%; Dogon 4.0%; Dyula 2.9...
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Malians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Malinke, Maure, Minianka, Senufo, Soninke (or Sarakolle), Songhai (or Sonrai), Tuareg (or Tamacheq), and Tukulor RELIGION...Before European explorers arrived in 1795, the Malinke and Songhai empires developed and flourished in the region. The French...
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Timbuktu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...centers of the W Sudan region, famous for its gold trade. Under the Songhai empire (15th and 16th cent.) the city was a great Muslim educational...The Ahmed Baba Center preserves many manuscripts from the Mali and Songhai empires.
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