An alternative, Proto-Indo-European etymology comes through Potnia and Despoina ; where Des-represents a derivative of PIE * dem ( house, dome ), and Demeter is " mother of the house " ( from PIE * dems-méh₂tēr ).

The etymology of the name is disputed ; an alternative name of the dance is stantipes, which suggests that one foot was stationary during the dance ; but the more widely accepted etymology relates it to estamper, to stamp the feet.

In alternative etymology, linking the ginn-prefix in Ginnungagap with that found in terms with a sacral meaning, such as ginn-heilagr, ginn-regin ( both referring to the gods ) and ginn-runa ( referring to the runes ), interprets Ginnungagap as signifying a " magical ( and creative ) power-filled space ".

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.

An alternative etymology is from, pherein phonon, " to bring ( or cause ) death ".

An alternative etymology derives the first part from Old English weri ( to wear ); the full form in this case would be glossed as wearer of wolf skin.

Food scholar Terence Scully has proposed the alternative etymology of bland mangier, " bland dish ", reflecting its often mild and " dainty " ( in this context meaning refined and aristocratic ) taste and popularity as a sick dish.

An alternative etymology may lie in the Romany, itself rooted in násfalo, meaning ill.

Though some scholars suggested that the Rugii passed their name to the isle of Rügen in modern Northeast Germany, other scholars presented alternative hypotheses of Rügen's etymology associating the name to the mediaeval Rani ( Rujani ) tribe.

" However, as both his predecessor, Cerdic, and successor, Ceawlin, might have Celtic names, an alternative etymology has been postulated from " Cunorix " which would mean " hound-king " in Old British ( rendered as Cinir in Old Welsh, Kynyr in Middle Welsh ).

Proto-Celtic * Lugus may be related to the root of the Proto-Celtic * lug-rā ‘ moon ’ ( the origin of Welsh lloer, though Peter Schrijver suggests an alternative etymology for lloer, from Common Celtic * lus-rā, where the root would be cognate with that of Latin luridus * lus-idus " pale yellow ").

The alternative spelling leithbrágan stems from a folk etymology deriving the word from leith ( half ) and bróg ( brogue ), because of the frequent portrayal of the leprechaun as working on a single shoe.

An alternative etymology would be from the common noun hwicce " ark, chest, locker ", in reference to the appearance of the territory as a flat-bottomed valley bordered by the Cotswolds and the Malvern Hills.

However, an alternative, more obscure etymology exists which suggests the name means " promontory into marsh ", which would make sense considering that Frodsham had a promontory castle very close to marshland.

An alternative popular etymology maintains that the word bouzouki was used because different tunings are required for the instrument to play in different musical scales known as Dromoi in Greek or Maqam.

An alternative etymology is that " c :" was used for copy and " cc :" indicates the plural, just as " p ." means page and " pp. " means pages.

This alternative etymology explains the frequent usage of " c :" when only one recipient is listed, while " cc :" is used for two or more recipients of the copies.

An alternative etymology suggests that the medieval Latin merulus ( mentioned from the end of the 10th century ) functioned as a diminutive of Latin merle, expressing an image of blackbirds sitting on a wall.

" An alternative etymology posits dog-walking as the origin of the term ; audience members, and indeed participants, could use the ordinary exercise of their pets as cover for their sexual assignations.

An alternative etymology was proposed by Wittek ( 1952 ), who believed that the Gagauz were the offspring of a group of Rum-Seljuks who surrendered to the Byzantine emperor ; thus, he attributed the name to a leader of this group, the Seljuk prince Kaykaus.

No historical evidence supports an alternative folk etymology by which the word is traced to the letter " J " ( characterizing the route a jaywalker might follow ).

An alternative etymology for the compound is cited by Ramamurti Mishra, who says that:

An alternative etymology has been suggested, from Middle French pale-mail or " straw-mallet ", in reference to target hoops being made of bound straw.

Darwin's attempts to find a translator in France fell through, and the translation by Clémence Royer published in 1862 added an introduction praising Darwin's ideas as an alternative to religious revelation and promoting ideas anticipating social Darwinism and eugenics, as well as numerous explanatory notes giving her own answers to doubts that Darwin expressed.

Retired professor of philosophy and skeptic Robert Todd Carroll notes that many of the commentators on the indigo phenomenon are of varying qualifications and expertise, and parents may prefer labeling their child an indigo as an alternative to a diagnosis that implies imperfection, damage or mental illness.

Cash offers for public companies often include a " loan note alternative " that allows shareholders to take a part or all of their consideration in loan notes rather than cash.

As Shillingsburg notes, " English scholarly editions have tended to use notes at the foot of the text page, indicating, tacitly, a greater modesty about the " established " text and drawing attention more forcibly to at least some of the alternative forms of the text ".

A major feature of the blues scale is the use of blue notes, however, since blue notes are considered alternative inflections, a blues scale may be considered to not fit the traditional definition of a scale.

Kember's liner notes explain that the alternative mixes represent the more multi-layered versions which he and Pierce agreed not to use because they would be unable to satisfactorily reproduce their sound live.

It has been noted that the theme music and incidental music seemed remarkably similar to those of The Prisoner, with alternative notes removed, and the film itself contains visual elements that could be references to, or homage to, The Prisoner.

He notes that a firm ’ s interactions with the market may not be under its control ( for instance because of sales taxes ), but its internal allocation of resources are: “ Within a firm, ... market transactions are eliminated and in place of the complicated market structure with exchange transactions is substituted the entrepreneur ... who directs production .” He asks why alternative methods of production ( such as the price mechanism and economic planning ), could not either achieve all production, so that either firms use internal prices for all their production, or one big firm runs the entire economy.

An alternative notation consists of a joined pair of whole notes ( at the right of the image ), but this can easily be confused with a pair of unison whole notes, as found in double-stop notation for stringed instruments or when two parts are written on a single staff.

Notes are most often used as an alternative to long explanatory notes that can be distracting to readers.

The publisher accordingly included alternative notes for the places where the original version could be played only on a short octave instrument, presumably to accommodate the needs of purchasers who owned a harpsichord or piano with the ordinary chromatic bass octave.

As a possible alternative explanation for the rise of the cumshot in hardcore pornography, Joseph Slade, professor at Ohio University and author of Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide notes that pornography actresses in the 1960s and 1970s did not trust birth control methods, and that more than one actress of the period told him that ejaculation inside her body was deemed inconsiderate if not rude.

Beginning with the Thain's Book, later copies of the Red Book contained, as an alternative, the true account ( from notes from Frodo and Sam ).

Art critic Harry Seiwert also notes that Janco's art also reflected his contact with various other alternative models, found in Ancient Egyptian and Far Eastern art, in the paintings of Cimabue and El Greco, and in Cloisonnism.

They have also contributed to various magazines and written surreal liner notes for the popular Volume series of alternative music compilations.

Much of his music is in just intonation, but his work with alternative tunings includes a collection of Etudes in all equal temperaments between 8 and 23 notes per octave.

The band usually performs a slightly different version of the song at concerts, most notably with the final " Come and dance with me " replaced by the more risqué " Come all over me " ( this alternative lyric is in the liner notes, but crossed out and with the recorded lyric written beside it.

Thus alternative currencies range from labor-time notes to specie-backed warehouse receipts.

An alternative revision scheme was to use red-lines to indicate additions, yellow-lines to indicate deletions, and green-line tracings to check ( i. e., to confirm conductivities, or to add notes to draftsmen for how to make corrections ), on copies of blue-line prints that were under engineering control.

The volumes contain in-depth introductions and commentaries, complemented by original translations, with full critical notes that include alternate readings and alternative translations.

In the liner notes accompanying the deluxe edition of Daydream Nation, Byron Coley quotes Moore on " Teenage Riot ": " It was actually about appointing J Mascis as our de facto alternative dream president ".