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List of prescriptive texts on writing in languages of the Philippines
prescriptive orthographies for select languages of the Philippines. This article compares these orthographies. "B" indicates a borrowed letter. page
Comparison of orthographies of languages of the Philippines
Comparison_of_orthographies_of_languages_of_the_Philippines
Filipino language writing conventions
Comparison of orthographies of languages of the Philippines Dambana Filipino alphabet Filipino language Tagalog phonology Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Filipino_orthography
195 languages are spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago
Languages_of_the_Philippines
Philippine government agency that regulates the Filipino national language
Philippine languages Comparison of orthographies of languages of the Philippines Filipino alphabet Filipino orthography Sentro ng Wikang Filipino Visayan
Commission on the Filipino Language
Commission_on_the_Filipino_Language
Language spoken in the Philippines
Braille Filipino Sign Language Filipino orthography Filipino alphabet Abakada alphabet Suyat Comparison of orthographies of languages of the Philippines Tagalog
Filipino_language
Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
and codified form, Filipino, is the national language of the Philippines, and is one language of the nation's two official languages, alongside English
Tagalog_language
Set of letters in Filipino and other Philippine languages
composed using the following HTML character entities and Unicode codepoints: Filipino orthography Comparison of orthographies of Philippine languages Philippine
Filipino_alphabet
Comparison of Scandinavian languages
speakers of the three largest Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) can read each other's languages without great difficulty. The primary
Comparison of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
Comparison_of_Danish,_Norwegian_and_Swedish
more other official languages. Overall, 430 languages are spoken or signed by the population, of which 177 are indigenous to the U.S. or its territories
Languages of the United States
Languages_of_the_United_States
Etruscan and the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages, consisting of Latino-Faliscan and Osco-Umbrian languages. Furthermore, Celtic languages were spoken
Languages_of_Italy
West Germanic language
English is either the official language, or one of the official languages, of 57 sovereign states and 30 dependent territories, making it the most geographically
English_language
Transcriptions of Tlingit
The Tlingit language has been recorded in a number of orthographies over the two hundred years since European contact. The first transcriptions of Tlingit
Tlingit_alphabet
Writing conventions for the Danish language
phonetics nor etymology and to bring Danish and Swedish orthographies closer. The reform of 1872 replaced the letter ⟨e⟩ by ⟨æ⟩ in some words (Eg> Æg, fegte>
Danish_orthography
Direct descendants of Vulgar Latin
transcription delimiters. The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages or Latinic languages, are the languages that directly descended
Romance_languages
System for writing in Spanish
especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation
Spanish_orthography
were home to over 70 distinct languages across 12 or so language families. Today, a majority of those indigenous languages are still spoken; however, most
Languages_of_Canada
through prescriptive language planning, has drawn from various other languages spoken in the Philippines, including major regional languages, further enriching
List of loanwords in the Tagalog language
List_of_loanwords_in_the_Tagalog_language
Austronesian language of the Philippines
Austronesian language primarily spoken in the Philippines by the Ilocano people. It is one of the eight major languages of the Philippines with about 11
Ilocano_language
Branch of the Indo-European language family
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe
Germanic_languages
Writing systems
Nevertheless, orthographies differ for the language and its variants in different regions, determined by country level. There are variations depending on the country's
Fula_alphabets
Form of Latin script used to write Serbo-Croatian
latinica, using the Czech system and producing a one-to-one grapheme-phoneme correlation between the Cyrillic and Latin orthographies, resulting in a
Gaj's_Latin_alphabet
Romanization scheme for Standard Chinese
government issued the National Common Language Law, providing a legal basis for applying pinyin. The current specification of the orthography is GB/T 16159–2012
Pinyin
The evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based
Evolution_of_languages
Language family of Asia
The Kra–Dai languages (/ˈkrɑːdaɪ/ KRAH-dy), also known as Tai–Kadai (/ˈtaɪkədaɪ/ TY-kə-dy) and Daic (/ˈdaɪ.ɪk/ DY-ik), are a language family in mainland
Kra–Dai_languages
Large language family mostly of Southeast Asia and the Pacific
form Filipino), Malagasy and Cebuano. According to some estimates, the family contains 1,257 languages, which is the second most of any language family
Austronesian_languages
Central Semitic language
official languages of the United Nations, and the liturgical language of Islam. Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and
Arabic
Austronesian language of the Philippines
Tagalog has the largest number of native speakers among the languages of the Philippines today, Cebuano had the largest native-language-speaking population
Cebuano_language
Spelling and punctuation of the Irish language
orthography is the set of conventions used to write the Irish language. A spelling reform in the mid-20th century led to An Caighdeán Oifigiúil, the modern
Irish_orthography
Artificial auxiliary language of the Philippines
auxiliary language of the Eskaya people of Bohol, an island province of the Philippines. Its grammar is structurally similar to Visayan-Boholano, the native
Eskayan_language
Free online crowdsourced encyclopedia
editions of Belarusan (using the Narkamaŭka and Taraškievica orthographies), different editions of Norwegian (using the Nynorsk and Bokmål orthographies), etc
Wikipedia
Writing system of the Macedonian language
usually in the Church Slavonic language[better source needed] or in Greek, which were the languages of liturgy, and were therefore considered the 'formal
Macedonian_alphabet
Austronesian language
Indonesian is the official language in Indonesia and also one of the working languages of Timor-Leste. Malay is the ethnic language of Malays in Sumatra, Borneo
Malay_language
Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
language with no literary history. It draws on the orthographies of Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Filipino, but also diverges in some ways. All final plosives
Bantayanon_language
Taiwanese romanization for Mandarin (2002–2008)
the free dictionary. Linguistic analysis Bopomofo-Hanyu Pinyin-Tongyong Pinyin comparison chart 漢語拼音與通用拼音對照表 Hanyu Pinyin-Tongyng Pinyin comparison chart
Tongyong_Pinyin
Visayan language
ISBN 978-1540619891. Paa, Saúl (2018-10-30). "Filipino-Language Commission Clarifies Harmonization of Orthographies". Philippine News Agency. P. Rendón, Jennifer
Karay-a_language
Orthography of the Evenki language
Evenki orthography is the orthography of the Evenki language. Multiple alphabets based on three different scripts have been and are currently being used
Evenki_orthography
How Yiddish is spelled and written
relevant to the stance of the daily press on orthographic reform is provided in Fishman 1981. Editorial acceptance of varying orthographies is a general
Yiddish_orthography
In a vast number of languages, the names given to the seven days of the week are derived from the names of the seven classical planets which were in turn
Names_of_the_days_of_the_week
Writing system of the Bulgarian language
non-Slavic) languages. Later, some Slavs modified it and added/excluded letters from it to better suit the needs of their own language varieties. In the 9th century
Bulgarian_alphabet
Branch of Sino-Tibetan languages
branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is frequently proposed that there is a primary split between the Sinitic languages and the rest of the family
Sinitic_languages
the other languages of the Philippines, and the official Malaysian and Indonesian, replacing earlier Arabic and Brahmic scripts. In 1928, as part of Kemal
History_of_the_Latin_script
Convention of symbols representing language
languages. For example, Chinese characters have been used to write multiple languages throughout the Sinosphere – including the Vietnamese language from
Writing_system
Written form of the Romani language
policy of linguistic pluralism" (PDF). Roma Rights Quarterly. 1: 31–44. Meyer, Anna-Maria (2019). "The creation of orthographies for Romani by means of 'Slavic'
Romani_alphabets
Austronesian regional language spoken in the Philippines
related to other Philippine languages. It also has one of the largest native language-speaking populations of the Philippines, despite it not being taught
Hiligaynon_language
Spanish-based creole of the Philippines
creole language spoken in the Philippines. The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest
Chavacano
Variety of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan
關於閩南語拼音整合工作相關問題說帖 (National Languages Committee: On the integration of Minnan orthographies), 2006-10-16 Archived 28 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine "Evertype"
Taiwanese_Hokkien
Sino-Tibetan language
Zhōngwén) is the umbrella term for almost all Sinitic languages except Macro-Bai languages, widely recognized as a collection of language varieties, natively
Chinese_language
for the official Narkamaŭka and Taraškievica orthographies. Each Wikipedia project has a code, which is used as a subdomain of wikipedia.org. The codes
List_of_Wikipedias
Reclassifying a language variety as a distinct language
that one modern language is older than another. Abstand and ausbau languages Altaic languages Blaverism Norms of El Puig Comparison of standard Bosnian
Language_secessionism
Languages descended from Low Malay
south East Asia Archipelago as far as the Philippines. That contact resulted in a lingua franca ("trade language") that was called Bazaar Malay or low
Malay trade and creole languages
Malay_trade_and_creole_languages
Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
Austronesian language spoken in northern Luzon, Philippines. Balangaw is spoken throughout the municipality of Natonin, with the exception of the barangays of Maducayan
Balangao_language
U.S. state
ʻokina ⟨ʻ⟩ and the kahakō in modern Hawaiian orthography. The exact spelling of the state's name in the Hawaiian language is Hawaiʻi. In the Hawaii Admission
Hawaii
Collective name covering the Montenegrin Latin alphabet and Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet
Montenegrin as the official language of Montenegro. Comparison of standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian South Slavic languages "Donijet Pravopis
Montenegrin_alphabet
Sinitic language originating in southern China
connections between Hakka, Kra-Dai languages, and Hmong-Mien languages have also been suggested by Deng (1999). Due to the migration of its speakers, Hakka may have
Hakka_Chinese
Austronesian language spoken on Timor
Portuguese: Tétum [ˈtɛtũ]) is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor. It is one of the official languages of Timor-Leste and it is also spoken in
Tetun_language
Bikol language spoken in the Philippines
spoken in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines, is one of several languages that compose the Inland Bikol (or Southern Bicol) group of the Bikol macrolanguage
Rinconada_Bikol_language
Language spoken in Indonesia
portal Languages portal Languages of Indonesia Language politics Malaysian Malay Bhāṣā, for other languages referred to as bahasa Comparison of Indonesian
Indonesian_language
Tagalog-language edition of Wikipedia
(Defenders of the Indigenous Languages of the Archipelago), an organization that defends indigenous languages of the Philippines. Compared to the other Philippine-based
Tagalog_Wikipedia
Number associated with the Beast of Revelation
that "of the seven different ways in which Muhammad's name is written in Euthymius and [by] the Byzantine historians, not one is the orthography in question"
Number_of_the_beast
"Ethnologue: Languages of the World" (Twenty-first ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World"
Demographics_of_Greece
Sign language predominantly in the US
ASL is a creole in which LSF is the superstrate language and the native indigenous sign languages are substrate languages. However, more recent research
American_Sign_Language
Standard Arabic (MSA) is the official language in the Arab world, but additional languages are often used in the daily lives of some citizens. Arabs, however
Demographics of the Arab world
Demographics_of_the_Arab_world
Austronesian language spoken in Kalimantan, Indonesia
– [s] t – [t] w – [w] y – [j] Vocabulary comparison between Bakumpai, Ngaju, Indonesian and English languages. Ngaju at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription
Ngaju_language
Branch of the Min Chinese languages
based on the koiné of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang dynasty. Language portal China portal Chinese in Singapore Languages of China Languages of Taiwan
Southern_Min
Writing system of the Abkhaz language
of the Abkhaz language] (in Russian). Тбилиси: Издательство Академии Наук Грузинской ССР. pp. 410–415. Comrie, Bernard (1981). The Languages of the Soviet
Abkhaz_alphabet
Alphabets for Udege, a Tungusic language
repeatedly reformed. Currently, the Udege script functions on two versions of the Cyrillic alphabet for two emerging literary languages, but does not have a generally
Udege_alphabets
Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
The Tawbuid language is a language spoken by Tawbuid Mangyans in the province of Mindoro in the Philippines. It is divided into eastern and western dialects
Tawbuid_language
Logographic writing system
to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Of the four independently
Chinese_characters
Kra–Dai language
throughout the country. It is the sole official language of Thailand. Thai is the most spoken of over 60 languages of Thailand by both number of native and
Thai_language
Island country in the Pacific Ocean
Philippines, and other Pacific islands. The two official languages are Marshallese, which is one of the Oceanic languages, and English. Almost the entire
Marshall_Islands
Ancient Semitic language of the Mediterranean, specifically present-day Lebanon
scripts. Phoenician belongs to the Canaanite languages and as such is quite similar to Biblical Hebrew and other languages of the group, at least in its early
Phoenician_language
Variety of Chinese found in Hong Kong and Macau
"written language" (書面語), in contrast to the "spoken language" (口語), i.e. Cantonese. While, like other varieties of Written Chinese, it is a variety of Mandarin
Hong_Kong_written_Chinese
Study of language change over time
construct language families, reconstruct proto-languages, and analyze the historical changes that have resulted in the documented languages' divergences
Historical_linguistics
Grammar of the Tagalog language
ng Tagalog) are the rules that describe the structure of expressions in the Tagalog language, one of the languages in the Philippines. In Tagalog, traditional
Tagalog_grammar
U.S. state
Filipinas ('New Philippines') and Nuevo Reino de Filipinas ('New Kingdom of the Philippines'), or as provincia de los Tejas ('province of the Tejas'), later
Texas
Part of speech
example, the redness of a file can be determined without comparing it to another file but the smallness of a file can only be determined by comparison with
English_nouns
Variety of English language
speakers of diverse languages, primarily European languages. Some racial and regional variation in American English reflects these groups' patterns of geographic
American_English
Japanese animation
in the United States, accounting for 30.5% of the market share. (In comparison, Spanish-language and Korean-language shows account for 21% and 11% of the
Anime
The major East Asian language families are the Sinitic, Japonic, and Koreanic families. Other language families are Tibeto-Burman, Ainu languages, Mongolic
Ethnic_groups_in_Asia
Multiple alphabets of Kurdish language
lacks a standard orthography, as of 2024. Usually it is the northern languages spoken by Kurds, Zazaki and Kurmanji, that are written in the extended Latin
Kurdish_alphabets
Japanese form of Esoteric Buddhism
successors such as Ennin. It consists of complex systems of icons, meditative rituals, and ritual languages distinct from the exoteric (kengyō, 顕経) schools.
Mikkyō
Family of abugida writing systems
used to write their own languages, Khmer can have either an a or an o as the inherent vowel, following the rules of its orthography. Letters used in Old
Brahmic_scripts
exceeds the combined total of speakers of French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Hawaiian, the Indo-Aryan languages, the various varieties of Chinese,
Spanish language in the United States
Spanish_language_in_the_United_States
Syllable-based writing system
Burmese – Burmese, Karen languages, Mon, and Shan Chakma Cham Devanagari – Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Nepali, Konkani and other languages of northern India Dhives
Abugida
Study of how language influences social life
languages and has grown over the past century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use. Linguistic anthropology explores how language shapes
Linguistic_anthropology
City in Texas, United States
commissioned the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar ("Béjar" in modern Spanish orthography) on the west side of the San Antonio River, one-fourth league from the mission
San_Antonio
Variety of English language
in Canada for the next hundred years when he referred to the language as "a corrupt dialect", in comparison with what he considered the proper English
Canadian_English
Special administrative region of China
Macau is not a member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, despite Portuguese being one of its official languages. This is due to it not
Macau
Scripts used to write the Azerbaijani language
Article 15 of the Iranian Constitution provides for the use of regional and tribal languages in the press and mass media, as well as the teaching of their
Azerbaijani_alphabet
Language avoiding bias towards a sex or social gender
(2012). "The Gendering of Language: A Comparison of Gender Equality in Countries with Gendered, Natural Gender, and Genderless Languages". Sex Roles
Gender-neutral_language
Alphabets of the Komi language
Latinization of the alphabet; since 1938 — modern script based on the Cyrillic alphabet. The Komi-Zyryan and Komi-Permyak sub-languages have used the same writing
Komi_alphabets
Standardized set of Chinese characters
traditional Chinese characters are standardized according to the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters. Dictionaries
Traditional Chinese characters
Traditional_Chinese_characters
Use in Spanish of the pronoun 'vos' for the second-person familiar singular
spoken in the Philippines, employs voseo, while the standard Spanish spoken in the country does not. The Chavacano language below in comparison of other Chavacano
Voseo
Variety of English
Daniel, eds. (2015). Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English. Studies in English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10
Bequia_English
Punctuation mark with various forms
keyboard In languages that use the corner bracket 「...」 quotation marks, they are available in: Japanese keyboard In languages that use the angle bracket
Quotation_mark
Nationals of Greenland
official language of Greenland in 2009. The majority of the population speaks both Danish and West Greenlandic Kalaallisut, with both languages having been
Greenlanders
Languages of Indonesia
Bawean language, classified as Madurese language dialect along with five other dialects. Madurese languages itself is a Malayo-Sumbawan language of the Malayo-Polynesian
Bawean_language
Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia
part of the Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages groups, which consists of Balinese, Sasak language on Lombok and Sumbawa language on Sumbawa island. The higher
Balinese_language
Autonomous territory of Denmark
of the Løgting and an official Faroese orthography, the Faroese language conflict saw Danish being gradually displaced by Faroese as the language of the
Faroe_Islands
City-state in what is now Manila, Philippines, from c. 900 to 1589
written document in the Philippines. Manila, Tondo, and other Luzonian towns around Manila Bay and Laguna de Bay saw an influx of travelling Spanish warriors
Tondo_(historical_polity)
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Biblical
Ecclesiasticus or the Sirach = Joshua, Joshua, saviour, or whose help is Jehovah Jehovah, I am; the eternal living one Jehovah, self-subsisting
Surname or Lastname
English (of Welsh origin)
English (of Welsh origin) : variant of Maddox.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : variant of Duley.
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
King Henry IV, Part 1' Earl of March. Scroop.
Surname or Lastname
English, of Welsh origin
English, of Welsh origin : variant of Bevan, with the addition of the regular English patronymic suffix -s.
Surname or Lastname
English, of Welsh origin
English, of Welsh origin : variant of Bowen, with the addition of the regular English patronymic suffix -s.Altered spelling of Dutch Bouwens, a variant of Bauwens.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Craon in Mayenne, France.English : habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a crown, Middle English croun.This name has probably also assimilated examples of German or Swedish Kron ‘crown’, or cognates in other languages.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Welsh origin)
English (of Welsh origin) : variant of Maddox.
Surname or Lastname
English (Hampshire and the Isle of Wight)
English (Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) : habitational name from a place on the Isle of Wight named Brading, from Old English brerd ‘hillside’ + -ingas ‘dwellers at’, i.e. ‘(settlement of) the dwellers on the hillside’.
Surname or Lastname
Respelling of Kroll.English
Respelling of Kroll.English : variant of Curl.
Biblical
peace; abundance
Surname or Lastname
Scottish (of Norman origin)
Scottish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of various places in northern France named with Old Norse hagi ‘enclosure’, a word with cognates in most Germanic languages. Compare Hay.English : variant spelling of Haigh.Irish (County Cavan) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thaidhg (see McCaig).
Surname or Lastname
English (of Welsh origin)
English (of Welsh origin) : variant of Maddox.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Welsh origin)
English (of Welsh origin) : variant of Maddock.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Welsh origin)
English (of Welsh origin) : variant of Maddox.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : variant of Chappell.Variant of German Kappel.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Welsh origin)
English (of Welsh origin) : variant of Maddox.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Welsh origin)
English (of Welsh origin) : variant of Maddox.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Welsh origin)
English (of Welsh origin) : variant of Maddox.
Surname or Lastname
English, of Welsh origin
English, of Welsh origin : Anglicized form of Welsh ap Ble(i)ddyn (see Blethen), with the addition of the English patronymic suffix -s.
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Girl/Female
Hindu
Daughter of Manu and wife of Daksha Prajapathi
Girl/Female
Tamil
An ancient city of india
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Noel.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, French, German, Latin, Swiss
Young Lion; Form of Leonard; Like a Lion
Female
German
 Short form of German Liselotte, LOTTE means "God is my oath." Compare with another form of Lotte.
Boy/Male
Hawaiian
Biblical priest.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English unisex Jaden, JAIDEN means "jade."
Boy/Male
Sikh
Lamp of satisfaction
Girl/Female
Australian, Chinese, Czechoslovakian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Swedish
Pure; Clear; Torture
Girl/Female
Assamese, Indian, Kannada
Respectable Man; Intelligent
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prep.
Denoting relation to place or time; belonging to, or connected with; as, men of Athens; the people of the Middle Ages; in the days of Herod.
prep.
Denoting the agent, or person by whom, or thing by which, anything is, or is done; by.
prep.
Denoting that by which a person or thing is actuated or impelled; also, the source of a purpose or action; as, they went of their own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity.
a.
New; unprecedented; unparalleled.
n.
One who spells words correctly; an orthographer.
prep.
Denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood.
imp. & p. p.
of Language
prep.
Denoting nearness or distance, either in space or time; from; as, within a league of the town; within an hour of the appointed time.
prep.
Denoting passage from one state to another; from.
prep.
Denoting part of an aggregate or whole; belonging to a number or quantity mentioned; out of; from amongst; as, of this little he had some to spare; some of the mines were unproductive; most of the company.
prep.
In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; -- used in a variety of applications; as:
prep.
During; in the course of.
n.
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
prep.
Denoting the material of which anything is composed, or that which it contains; as, a throne of gold; a sword of steel; a wreath of mist; a cup of water.
prep.
Denoting identity or equivalence; -- used with a name or appellation, and equivalent to the relation of apposition; as, the continent of America; the city of Rome; the Island of Cuba.
a.
Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open air; outdoor; as, out-of-door exercise. See Out of door, under Out, adv.
prep.
Denoting reference to a thing; about; concerning; relating to; as, to boast of one's achievements.
n.
The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.
prep.
Denoting possession or ownership, or the relation of subject to attribute; as, the apartment of the consul: the power of the king; a man of courage; the gate of heaven.