tener
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Gustavo Arellano: There’s a saying in Spanish: no tener pelos en la lengua.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2018
The English tender, the French tendre, the Latin tener, are derived from it.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
The English tender, the French tendre, the Latin tener are derived from it.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The following however, are declined like tener: asper, rough; lacer, torn; līber, free; miser, wretched; prōsper, prosperous; compounds in -fer and -ger; sometimes dexter, right.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
They must have been in bad straits, because Estudillo found them living deep in the swamp, in a "gran Bolson de Tule, sin poder tener lumbre."
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
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