It is also possible that the name Axeinos arose by popular etymology from a Scythian Iranic axšaina-' unlit ,' ' dark '; the designation " Black Sea " may thus date from Antiquity.

Another possible related etymology can be " bull-slayer ".

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible link to the word ' wooden ' but that overall the etymology of this word is unclear.

The possible confusion results from " ì ", despite its original etymology, becoming a Gaelic noun ( now obsolete ) meaning simply " island ".

" However, few sources give " love of wisdom " as a possible meaning of the term, and others say the etymology is " not much help ".

The term dao 道 is analyzable in terms of Chinese characters, alternate dào " way " or dǎo " guide " pronunciations and meanings, a possible Proto-Indo-European etymology, and loanwords such as English Dao or dao.

Conflicting scholarly theories have been proposed about the etymology of the name Yggdrasill, the possibility that the tree is of another species than ash, the relation to tree lore and to Eurasian shamanic lore, the possible relation to the trees Mímameiðr and Læraðr, Hoddmímis holt, the sacred tree at Uppsala, and the fate of Yggdrasil during the events of Ragnarök.

Typhon may be derived from the Greek τύφειν ( typhein ), to smoke, hence it is considered to be a possible etymology for the word typhoon, supposedly borrowed by the Persians ( as طوفان Tufân ) and Arabs to describe the cyclonic storms of the Indian Ocean.

It was once thought that the root may be derived from Proto-Indo-European " to shine ", but there are difficulties with this etymology and few modern scholars accept it as being possible ( notably because Proto-Indo-European never produced Proto-Celtic ).

However, it is also possible that Asser's inclusion of Welsh placenames simply reflects an interest in etymology or the existence of a Welsh audience in his own household rather than in Wales.

The etymology of the Hunyadi family implies possible Vlach ( Romanian ) or Cuman origin.

; Jingo: OED finds an etymology from Basque Jainko (" God ") through Gascon possible but not proven.

A Gaelic etymology is also possible, with I-fheirste meaning " Crossings-island " or " Fords-island ", derived from I meaning " island " and fearsad meaning " estuary, sand-bank, passage across at ebb-tide ".

( A possible etymology of their name includes a Celtic element * windo -, cognate to Irish find-' white '.

Usages have been documented not by prescriptive grammars, which on the whole are less comprehensible to the general public, but by comprehensive dictionaries, often termed unabridged, which attempt to list all usages of words and the phrases in which they occur as well as the date of first use and the etymology where possible.

The word is possibly derived from the Gothic * haltijar, and referred to the original settler of a homestead — although this is not the only possible etymology.

While the exact etymology is unknown, it is possible that the name is derived from several Greek and Latin phrases that meant " the valley of many cellars ".

Its river, Drini i Zi ( Albanian: Black River ), was colored red with blood several times, which is a possible etymology for the name.

* Other possible works include an early etymology ( possibly the earliest by an Alexandrian writer ), and analyses of the poets Epicharmus of Kos and Sophron.

In the 12th century, Raimundo Martin describes in his book Vocabulista another possible etymology of the Hispano-Arabic fasur, meaning " nectar ".

The precise etymology of the name is unclear, however, one possible derivation is from a Sami word for " spruce forest ".

Although the etymology of the name Kaziranga is not certain, there exist a number of possible explanations derived from local legends and records.

The record of the name Lipka in Oriental sources permits us to infer an original Libķa / Lipķa, from which the Polish derivative Lipka was formed, with possible contamination with the Polish lipka " small lime-tree "; this etymology was suggested by the Tatar author S. Tuhan-Baranowski.

: and the possible further Indo-European etymology of this root in the entry

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.

It is possible that the study of literature affects the conscience, the morality, the sensitivity to some code of `` right '' and `` wrong ''.

It is possible that the idea of enrichment of emotion is a fifth idea.

It is at least possible that the capacity to postpone gratification is developed as well as expressed in a continuous and guided exposure to great literature.

Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.

In looking back over the volumes, it is possible to find errors of interpretation, some of which were not so evident at the time of writing.

Says he, `` I may never imagine that in the struggle between personal and supra-personal responsibility it is possible to make a compromise between the ethical and the purposive in the shape of a relative ethic ; ;

Fortunately, it is possible to be somewhat more concrete and factual in diagnosing the involvement of values in education.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

It is no longer possible to say that a sceptical attitude towards the received accounts of the invasions almost automatically produces a `` shore occupied by '' interpretation.