According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, after the cycle of Grail romances was well established, late medieval writers came up with a false etymology for sangréal, an alternative name for " Holy Grail.

According to one etymology, June is named after Juno ( Hera ).

According to the traditional etymology the Slavic name derives from the Germanic ethnonym Silingi.

According to a French etymology, the Italian tarocco derived from Arabic طرح ṭarḥ, ' rejection ; subtraction, deduction, discount '.

According to the biblical etymology, the city received the name " Babel ", from the Hebrew word " balal ", meaning to jumble.

According to folk etymology, the area of Warmia is named after the legendary Prussian chief Warmo, whereas the name Ermland derives from his widow Erma.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the etymology is " uncertain and disputed ": " The word is perhaps related to the Sardinian place names Nurra, Nurri, Nurru, and to Sardinian nurra heap of stones, cavity in earth ( although these senses are difficult to reconcile ).

According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the etymology of the name Puck is " unsettled ", and it is not clear even whether its origin is Germanic ( cf.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the etymology of the word can be traced back to the Old English word hlāford which originated from hlāfweard meaning ' bread keeper ' or ' loaf-ward ', reflecting the Germanic tribal custom of a chieftain providing food for his followers.

According to romantic folk etymology, Charing derives from French chère reine ( dear queen ), but the name was certainly used in the contemporary royal accounting records for the costs of constructing the cross.

According to some authors her name does not have an Indo-European etymology, which for R. F. Willets strengthens her link with Minoan culture.

According to one version, the etymology of its name comes from Latin and its literal meaning is pruning.

According to this etymology: Middle English Dagon < Late Latin ( Ec.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word tip originated as a slang term, and its etymology is unclear.

According to a figurative etymology in the Florentine Codex of Sahagún ( bk.

According to Douglas Harper's online etymology dictionary, fork in the meaning of " to divide in branches, go separate ways " has been used as early as 14th century.

According to folk etymology, the name derived from " Wyvernhoe ", originating from the mythical beast called a wyvern and the previously mentioned ridge ( hoe ).

According to popular Arabic etymology ( no reference ), the name may have meant " Artemisia Mountain " in the Canaanite language, where Arabic Tuur for " mountain " and shiiH for " artemisia " ( mugwort, or common wormwood ) could be identified, or alternatively from Taar shiiHaa (" Shiha flew "), i. e. Shiha Jamaluddin ( a legendary hero ) rushed to the battlefield to fight the Crusaders.

According to this biblical passage, the name Issachar refers to Leah hiring Jacob's sexual favours at the cost of some Mandrakes ; this suggests the etymology is ish-sachar, literally meaning man of hire, though some Jewish sources take it instead to mean reward or recompense, in reference to Issachar being the result of Jacob being hired.

According to a May 2000 talk to the Isle of Wight Postcard Club by the present Director, Mr Simon Dabell, the etymology is simply " black pathway " ( the original appearance of the chine ), but the theme park understandably fosters the interpretation of a smuggling origin.

According to folk etymology, the name " Kashmir " means " desiccated land " ( from the Sanskrit: Ka

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the etymology is uncertain, but probably derives from the slang term " bean ", meaning " head ".

According to Merriam-Webster's etymology, the origin of the word spinnaker is simply unknown.

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

According to the Food And Drug Administration ( FDA ), `` Doctor '' Ghadiali, Dr. Albert Abrams and his clique, and Dr. Wilhelm Reich -- to name three notorious device quacks -- succeeded, respectively, in distributing 10,000, 5000, and 2000 fake health machines.

According to this interpretation, the name is from aphrós " foam " and déatai " seems " or " shines " ( infinitive form * déasthai ), meaning " she who shines from the foam ", a byname of the dawn goddess ( Eos ).

According to Asinius Quadratus ( quoted in the mid-6th century by Byzantine historian Agathias ) their name means " all men ".

According to an interview she gave to an Egyptian journalist, her first name was Yvonne, though she is referred to as Yvette in most published references.

According to Rudbeck, Atland means fatherland, and it was the original name of Atlantis.

According to the Akkadian transcription in the Amarna letters, Anubis ' name was vocalized in Egyptian as Anapa.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

According to the editors of the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, some scholars believe the name " Malachi " is not a proper noun but rather an abbreviation of " messenger of YHWH ".

According to Stephen Frederic Dale, the name Babur is derived from the Persian word babr, meaning " tiger ", a word that repeatedly appears in Firdawsī's Shāhnāma and had also been borrowed by the Turkic languages of Central Asia.

* According to the letter of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the correct name for this family should be Microcebidae, but the name Cheirogaleidae has been retained for stability.

According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

According to Bruce L. Olsen, director of public affairs for the church, " The logo re-emphasizes the official name of the church and the central position of the Savior in its theology.

According to Johann Gottfried Walther, writing in 1732, the reason for the name is that " it sounded from far off not unlike a trumpet ".

According to the Book of Jubilees, Ur Kasdim ( and Chaldea ) took their name from Ura and Kesed, descendants of Arpachshad.

According to Biafra, the live albums are " cash-ins " on Dead Kennedys ' name and his music.

According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi ( or Lao Tzu, " Old Master "), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China.

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

According to the direct-reference view, an early version of which was originally proposed by Bertrand Russell, and perhaps earlier by Gottlob Frege, a proper name strictly has no meaning when there is no object to which it refers.