A Walk in the WoRds

onomatopoeia 1: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss) 2: the use of words who...

H = Het Het = Egyptian Hieroglyph Hieroglyph = Fence hapax legomenon In Lexicology, a word which occurs only once in a text, author, or ext...

G = Gimel Gimel = Proto-Sinaitic Glyph Glyph = Staff Sling glossolalia 'Speaking in tongues': i.e. uttering sounds under condition ...

F = Waw (Semitic) Waw = Hook false friends In comparative linguistics, a term describing words in different languages which resemble each o...

E = Protosinaitic Script Script = Jubilation enantiosemy A case of polysemy in which one sense is in some respect the opposite of another. ...

D = Dalet Dalet = Egyptian Hieroglyph Hieroglyph = Door deverbal A term used in grammar to describe an element which originates as a verb b...

C = Egyptian Hieroglyph Hieroglyph = Throwing Stick calque A word or expression which has been formed by translation of a corresponding wor...

B = Bayt (Arabic) Bayt = House bahuvrihi In grammar, a Sanskrit term describing a type of compound in which an entity is characterized with...

adhortative = exhortative ..... exhortative (Particle etc.) used in enjoining or encouraging an action by a group that includes the speake...

Not all alphabets contain 26 letters. Here are several comparisons that have like and/or similar characters to the English alphabet(shown ab...