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Cornish
Cornish language belonging to the Brythonic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages . Bibliography: See P. B. Ellis, The Cornish Language and Its Literature (1974).... Read more |
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dodo
dodo a flightless forest-dwelling bird of Mauritius, extinct since the late 17th cent. The dodo was closely related to the two species of solitaire bird, extinct flightless giants found on the other islands in the Mascarene Islands. Although related to the pigeon , the dodo was larger than the... Read more |
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William Cornish
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Cornwall
Cornwall county (1991 pop. 469,300), SW England. The county seat is Bodmin , although most administration eminates from Truro. Cornwall is a peninsula bounded seaward by the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean and landward by Devon. It terminates in the west with the rugged promontory of ... Read more |
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Brythonic
Brythonic denoting, relating to, or belonging to the southern group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. They were spoken in Britain before and during the Roman occupation, surviving as Welsh and Cornish after the Anglo-Saxon invasions, and being taken to Brittany by... Read more |
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Elias Hasket Derby
Elias Hasket Derby (1739-1799) Sources I NTERNATIONAL MERCHANT The House of Derby. Elias Hasket Derby’s father, Richard Derby, had been one of the most prosper-ous merchants in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1761 Elias Derby married Elizabeth Crownin-shield, ... Read more |
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dodo (bird)
Dodo , in the Bible, father of the mighty man Eleazar . An alternate form is Dodai.... Read more |
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expert system
expert system a computer system or program that uses artificial intelligence techniques to solve problems that ordinarily require a knowledgeable human. The method used to construct such systems, knowledge engineering, extracts a set of rules and data from an expert or experts through extensive... Read more |
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Quechua
Quechua Kechua , or Quichua , linguistic family belonging to the Andean branch of the Andean-Equatorial stock of Native American languages (mainly in South America). Encompassing far more native speakers than any other aboriginal language group in the Americas, the languages of the Quechuan... Read more |
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Specific Language Impairment
Specific language impairment Definition Specific language impairment (SLI) describes a condition of markedly delayed language developmentin the absence of any apparent handicapping conditions. Description Many different terms have been used to describe the childhood ... Read more |
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