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The Society of Women Engineers (societyofwomenengineers. swe.org CQ) will host a conference in October, and sometimes partners with employers in recruiting at-home parents and others who are engineers not working in the field.
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Fact: Both swe and Swi work as peacekeepers nowadays.
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Regardless, *swe is still reconstructable for PIE and it still demonstrates a reflexive sense throughout the entire family from Germanic to Indo-Iranian despite the coexistence of a mediopassive.
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Then there is the matter of the etymology of *swesor- "sister" which has already been determined rather brilliantly to derive from *swe and *-sor-2, the same feminine ending seen in the ancient stem *kʷetwor-sr-es, the feminine form of "four" preserved in Celtic languages.
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PIE *swe is still a reflexive of some sort at that stage, not just in post-IE, and giving it a value of 'dear' makes my head spin.
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Can someone please tell me how to avoid using *swe or any of its related forms in this context?
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However, it is Congress 'failure to pass a swe ...
Mickey Ibarra: The Latino Vote: Courting an Increasingly Sophisticated Community 2008
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Paleoglot: Lehmann's dismissal of PIE *swe skip to main
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However, it is Congress 'failure to pass a swe ...
Mickey Ibarra: The Latino Vote: Courting an Increasingly Sophisticated Community 2008
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What we might come to conclude is that Lehmann put the cart before the horse and where the wild passion of his meandering argument lied was in comparing the semantics of Greek philos to PIE *swe.
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