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Sapir

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Sapir meaning

A surname from Hebrew.

Example sentences (20)

As Jacob Sapir could not provide for his family, Sapir's mother, Eva Seagal Sapir, opened a shop to supply the basic necessities.

Disappointed at not being able to stay at Berkeley, Sapir devoted his best efforts to other work, and did not get around to preparing any of the Yana material for publication until 1910, Sapir, Edward. 1910.

Even though Eva Sapir was an important influence, Sapir received his lust for knowledge and interest in scholarship, aesthetics, and music from his father.

Sam Batwi, the speaker of Yana who had worked with Sapir, was unable to understand the Yahi variety, and Krober was convinced that only Sapir would be able to communicate with Ishi.

Sapir came to regard a young Semiticist named Zellig Harris as his intellectual heir, although Harris was never a formal student of Sapir.

Tillohash was Sapir's collaborator on the famous description of the Southern Paiute language Sapir's first fieldwork was on the Wishram Chinook language in the summer of 1905, funded by the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Wilhelm von Humboldt declared in 1820: error Boas and Sapir Franz Boas Edward Sapir The idea that some languages are superior to others and that lesser languages maintained their speakers in intellectual poverty was widespread in the early 20th century.

Sapir Midroni arranged for City Council to remove items from her home in an inner-city suburb and claims she neatly arranged the items for collection.

This quiet, bleak work by Israeli novelist Hila Blum won her country's Sapir Prize.

Around this time Bayrock Group LLC entered Trump's world courtesy of Tamir Sapir, the Russian emigre who knew Trump from his Brighton Beach days and by now had become a billionaire.

Data displayed on the map and on the impact counter come from EM-DAT: The Emergency Events Database, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disaster, Debarati Guha-Sapir.

Pinchas Sapir was the most powerful politician in Mapai, a Minister of Trade and Industry, a monumental Minister of Finance, and yet always treated Golda Meir with tremendous deference to the person she was.

Also in 1937, Whorf and his friend G. L. Trager, published a paper in which they elaborated on the Azteco-Tanoan Whorf and Trager suggested the term "Azteco-Tanoan" instead of the label "Aztec-Tanoan" used by Sapir.

Apart from Sapir the division had two other staff members, Marius Barbeau and Harlan I. Smith.

Benedict also started a friendship with Edward Sapir who encouraged her to continue the study of the relations between individual creativity and cultural patterns.

Boas: error Boas' student Edward Sapir reached back to the Humboldtian idea that languages contained the key to understanding the world views of peoples.

But Sapir's conservative ideas about marriage and the woman's role were anathema to Mead, and as Mead left to do field work in Samoa the two separated permanently.

By introducing the high standards of Boasian anthropology, Sapir incited antagonism from those amateur ethnologists who felt that they had contributed important work.

Darnell 1990:187 Chicago years Settling in Chicago reinvigorated Sapir intellectually and personally.

Darnell 1990:34 At Pennsylvania, Sapir was urged to work at a quicker pace than he felt comfortable.