The-dour element, referring to the Burn, means simply ' water ' ( archaic dobur ), and is unconnected to the Scots / English ' dour '.

According to Pherecydes of Syros, the second element of his name is derived from, an archaic word for " tree ".

Quicksilver is an archaic name for the element mercury.

The second element is associated with Mount Nysa, the birthplace of the god in Greek mythology, where he was nursed by nymphs ( the Nysiads ), but according to Pherecydes of Syros, was an archaic word for " tree.

The element of the dove may be an attempt to account for a folk etymology applied to the archaic name of the sacred women that no longer made sense.

A mythic element of a black dove that initiated the oracle at Dodona, which Herodotus was told in the 5th century BC may be an attempt to account for a folk etymology applied to the archaic name of the sacred women that no longer made sense ( an aitiological myth ).

They are largely classed as " science fantasy " because of the presence of swords and, usually, an archaic aristocratic social system ; Burroughs ' own novels are, however, skeptical in spirit and almost free of any non-rationalized " fantastic " element ( other than the never-explained mechanism by which John Carter gets to Mars ).

But the mythic and archaic element was combined with the chronicles of rulers which can lay claim to being in some degree genuinely historical.

The Homeric dialect was an archaic language based on Ionic dialect mixed with some element of Aeolic dialect and Attic dialect, the latter due to the Athenian edition of 6th century BC.

In archaic Greece he was the prophet, the oracular god who in older times was connected with " healing ".

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

The archaic ( Homeric ) pronunciation of the name was approximately.

Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

Just east of Sparta stood an archaic statue of the god in chains, to show that the spirit of war and victory was never to leave the city.

The Areopagus, the " mount of Ares " where Paul of Tarsus preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis ; from archaic times it was a site of trials.

In Greek mythology, Aegeus (; ) or Aegeas (; ), was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens.

In one archaic usage, " common law " is used to refer to certain customs in England dating to before the Norman conquest and before there was any consistent law to be applied.

While this was occurring, modern birds were undergoing diversification and replacing archaic birds and pterosaur groups, possibly due to direct competition, or they simply filled empty niches.

Digamma / wau was part of the original archaic Greek alphabet as initially adopted from Phoenician.

The image was called Daedale and the archaic ritual given an explanation through a myth to the purpose

The archaic term Velja noć ( velmi: Old Slavic for " great "; noć: " night ") was used in Croatian while the term Velikden (" Great Day ") was used in Serbian.

In 1995, one of the oldest hominids, representing a possible link between Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens was found in Buya, Eritrea by Italian scientists dated to over 1 million years old ( the oldest of its kind ), providing a link between hominids and the earliest humans.

Writing was from right to left except in archaic inscriptions, which occasionally used boustrophedon.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

His plays and those of Aeschylus and Sophocles indicate a difference in outlook between the three mena generation gap probably due to the Sophistical enlightenment in the middle decades of the fifth century: Aeschylus still looked back to the archaic period, Sophocles was in transition between periods, and Euripides was fully imbued with the new spirit of the classical age.

The archaic form Alpdruck means " elf pressure "; it was believed that nightmares are a result of an elf sitting on the dreamer's chest ( incubi ).

In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.

E-Prime does not allow the conjugations of to be — be, am, is, are, was, were, been, being — the archaic forms of to be ( e. g. art, wast, wert ), or the contractions of to be —' s ,'m ,'re ( e. g. I'm, he's, she's, they're ).

It is considered archaic now, as the terms " acidic " and " basic rock " were based on an incorrect idea, dating from the 19th century, that silicic acid was the chief form of silicon occurring in rocks.

According to an archaic myth he was sired by Cronus when he had taken the form of a horse and impregnated the nymph Philyra, Chiron's lineage was different from other centaurs, who were born of sun and raincloud, rendered by Greeks of the Classic period as from the union of the king Ixion, consigned to a fiery wheel, and Nephele (" cloud "), which in the Olympian telling Zeus invented to look like Hera.

Erechtheus (; Greek: Ἐρεχθεύς ) in Greek mythology was the name of an archaic king of Athens, the re-founder of the polis and a double at Athens for Poseidon, as " Poseidon Erechtheus ".

Epopeus ( Ἐπωπεύς ) was a mythical Greek king of Sicyon, with an archaic bird-name that linked him to epops ( ἔποψ ), the hoopoe, the " watcher ".

Han is a native Korean root for " leader " or " great ", as in maripgan (" king ", archaic ), hanabi (" grandfather ", archaic ), and Hanbat (" Great Field ", archaic name for Daejeon ).

* The English vocative particle O, an archaic form of address, e. g. Thou, O king, art a king of kings.

The regina was the wife of the rex sacrorum, " king of the sacred rites ," an archaic priesthood regarded in the earliest period as more prestigious than even the Pontifex Maximus.

The Erectheion caryatids, in a shrine dedicated to an archaic king of Athens, may therefore represent priestesses of Artemis in Karyæ, a place named for the " nut-tree sisterhood " – apparently in Mycenaean times, like other plural feminine toponyms, such as Hyrai or Athens itself.

According to Greek mythographers, the first Phrygian Midas had been king of the Moschi ( Mushki ), also known as Bryges ( Brigi ) in the western part of archaic Thrace.

The word ultimately derives from a Germanic word for " king " ( Compare to Finnish Kuningas and Lithuanian Kunigas, both from Proto-Germanic * Kuningaz ; in archaic contex the Finnish word simply had the meaning of " leader " or " high-ranked person " instead of monarch ).

Several archaic titles of nobility ( e. g., Middle English Sir ( knight ), Old French Sire ( lord ), proto-Slavic Tsar ( monarch ), Biblical Hebrew Sar ( chief ), Akkadian Saris ( court minister ), Old Egyptian Ser ( prince )) derive from the same etymological root, likely Sumerian ( from Sarrum meaning " king "; see Sargon of Akkad ).

An economic tablet from Nippur is dated “ 15 < sup > th </ sup > year ( of ) Kadašman-Enlil, month of Tašrītu, 18 < sup > th </ sup > day ”, and is ascribed to him, rather than his descendent name-sake, because of the more archaic use of the masculine personal determinative before the royal name and the likelihood that the later king reigned for no more than nine years.

Senedj's name is written in archaic form and set in a cartouche, which is an anachronism, since the cartouche itself was not used until the end of 3rd dynasty under king Huni.