While most of this answer is correct, a person would not use the term 'prat' to refer to their backside, it's a derogatory term used mainly to talk about a person and or their behavior e.g 'He was acting like a total prat'.. any spoken sound r â¦ epresented by the letter A or a, as in bake, hat, father, or small. 3. something having the shape of an A. 4. a written or printed representation of the letter A or a. 5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter A or a. From Dictionary.com. 1 person found this useful.
However, since the Mandan language has been in contact with Hidatsa and Crow for many years, the exact relationship between Mandan and other Siouan languages (including Hidatsa and Crow) has been obscured and is currently undetermined.
In the Third Age (the setting of The Lord of the Rings), Sindarin was the language most commonly spoken by most Elves in the Western part of Middle-earth. Sindarin is the language usually referred to as the elf-tongue or elven-tongue in The Lord of the Rings. When the Quenya-speaking Noldor returned to Middle-earth, they adopted the Sindarin language. Quenya and Sindarin were related, with many cognate words but differing greatly in grammar and structure. Sindarin is said to be more changeful than Quenya, and there were during the First Age a number of regional dialects.