Sentence examples for indigenous terms from inspiring English sources

Conversely, Romanian also shares some apparently non-Latin indigenous terms with Albanian e.g., Romanian brad, Albanian bredh "fir".

The indigenous terms for this ritual varied: the Cheyenne phrase may be translated as "New Life Lodge"; the Atsina term means "Sacrifice Lodge".

In the 1970s, the intellectual historian, Qian Mu examined and explained Zhu Xi's thought directly in traditional indigenous terms, without reading western concepts and logical patterns into his system.

Stamp [ 11] notes that despite laudable strides in formal education and modernization, issues of rights and privileges for men, women, and children are still largely constructed in indigenous terms in most parts of contemporary Africa.

While we have discussed the connotations of the two popular idioms used in describing diabetes in Bafut, there are other indigenous terms and descriptions that are nowadays fading from use as the following quote illustrates: Diabetes was called yoongkee and ki-yoongkee.

Whereas Diabetes Mellitus conveys little about the signs and symptoms of the disease to participants, the two indigenous terms are grounded in the experience of the person afflicted – the experience of illness – and also suggest crucial things about the underlying mechanisms of illness and its origin.

Along "cancer alley," an indigenous term for a stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans where chemical companies line the shores, the river has long since become a vast science project for environmentalists and polluters alike.

The initial result of those labors, which continue, is a photographic essay called "The Liquid Serpent," referring to an indigenous term for the river that flows through the heart of the Amazon, the world's largest tropical forest.

Describing a towering tree in the yard of her farm with few branches around its trunk, making it daunting to climb, Ms. Fischer, the descendant of Nueva Germania's pioneers, called it simply "ka'i kyhyjeha," an indigenous term roughly translating as "monkey's fear".

Nathan Sivin (1995, 3n1) points out that there is no indigenous term for "nature" in China before the nineteenth century.

But it's not as easy for all brotherboys and sistergirls (the Indigenous term for someone who has undergone a male to female transition).