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.

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 notes that the Latin verb iūbilō, " shout for joy ," predates the Vulgate, and proposes that instead the Latin jubilo ( meaning shout ), as well as Middle Irish ilach ( victory cry ), New English yowl, and Ancient Greek iuzo ( shout ), derived from the Proto-Indo-European root * yu-( shout for joy ).

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.

The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

Certainly, in analyzing an action which truly faced such alternatives, `` it is never possible that no world would be preferable to some worlds, and there are in truth no circumstances in which the destruction of human life presents itself as a reasonable alternative ''.

Power analysis can assist in study design by determining what sample size would be required in order to have a reasonable chance of rejecting the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.

One alternative would be that having failed to grow marrows once, Poirot is determined to have another go, but this is specifically denied by Poirot himself.

Another alternative would be to suggest that the Preface to the Labours takes place at one date but that the labours are completed over a matter of twenty years.

With regard to historic properties ( those properties that are listed or that are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, or properties designated as historic under State or local law ), those facilities must still comply with the provisions of Title III of the ADA to the " maximum extent feasible " but if following the usual standards would " threaten to destroy the historic significance of a feature of the building " then alternative standards may be used.

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

It was felt by Ibsen's German agent that the original ending would not play well in German theatres ; therefore, for the play's German debut, Ibsen was forced to write an alternative ending for it to be considered acceptable.

This allowed Bonaparte to propose an invasion of Egypt as an alternative to confronting Britain directly, believing that the British would be too distracted by an imminent Irish uprising to intervene in the Mediterranean.

Another consequentialist version is motive consequentialism which looks if the state of affairs that results from the motive to choose an action is better or at least as good as each of the alternative state of affairs that would have resulted from alternative actions.

Reports stated that series producer Phil Collinson was distributing alternative scripts, that much loved characters would be killed, and that none of the cast would be told which characters would die.

Star Trek would later offer other corporeal life-forms with an alternative biochemistry.

While they continued to play live shows during 1983 and 1984, they took a break from releasing new records to concentrate on the Alternative Tentacles record label, which would become synonymous with DIY alternative culture.

Stratford was preferred to the alternative, which would have involved street running trams and was at variance with the concept of a fully automated railway.

Several other commercials for MTV quickly followed, in which Leary would rant at high speeds about a variety of topics, playing off the then-popular and growing alternative scene.

Noninvasive surgery using the gamma knife or other devices used in radiosurgery is currently being investigated as an alternative to traditional open surgery in patients who would otherwise qualify for anterior temporal lobectomy.

After the formation of a new coalition government in 2010, it was announced as part of the coalition agreement that a referendum would be held on 5 May 2011 on switching to the alternative vote system.

He taught methods of crop rotation, introduced several alternative cash crops for farmers that would also improve the soil of areas heavily cultivated in cotton, initiated research into crop products ( chemurgy ), and taught generations of black students farming techniques for self-sufficiency.

The alternative hypothesis, that protein was the genetic material, predicted that radioactive < sup > 32 </ sup > P would be found in the supernatant with the phage parts, while the radioactive < sup > 35 </ sup > S would be found in the pelleted bacterium which is found in the cell.

The rival BDS engineering group, who had to keep the project's real purpose a secret among themselves, fearing that if David Chandler, the head of the Keyboard Component team, found out about it he would use his influence to get the project killed, eventually came up with a much less expensive alternative.