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Most folks are loath to extend credit to another deka-megamurder responsible for the deaths of so many millions of its own citizens, even if it was a useful spoil in terms of killing lots of Germans.
American and Israeli War Crimes: Same Atrocities, Different Responses 2008
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CHETRY: The word I pronounced it, para-skeva - deka - tera.
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Mbeere: muruba Orma: deka-dubra Rendille: mulahanyo, dook-gudhan Samburu: irri Somali: hashanli, dhamag, mured-bonati
Chapter 7 1999
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Latin prefixes _milli_ = 1/1000; _centi_ = 1/100; _deci_ = 1/10; the multiples of each unit by the Greek prefixes _deka_ = 10; _hecto_ = 100;
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It is only ten | _Estas nur la deka_ | eh-stahss noor la
Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation William W. Mann
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Eichhoff gives a Sanskrit word for finger, "daiçini" (taken apparently from _pra-deçinî_, forefinger), and which corresponds curiously with "daçan," ten; and we have the same resemblance running through many of the Indo-European languages, as [Greek: deka] and [Greek: daktylos], _decem_ and
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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Decameron comes from two Greek words deka, ten, and hemera, a day, the book being so called because the stories in it were supposed to be told in ten days.
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DECALOGUE (Gr. deka, ten, and logos, a word), the Ten Words of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The following forms of numerals differ from those in classical use: deka duo Ex. 28: 21: Josh.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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Nb. 29: 29 amnous eniausious deka tessares amomous.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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