Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

When the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.

In his mind he spoke simultaneously the English sentence and the Martian word and felt closer grokking.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

" English borrowed the word from Spanish in the early 18th century.

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.

The word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard.

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".

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The Latin-derived form of the word is " tecnicus ", from which the English words technique, technology, technical are derived.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

The English word ' artiste ' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word ' artiste ' in French.

Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).

Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.

In 1600, the English scientist William Gilbert returned to the subject in De Magnete, and coined the New Latin word electricus from ηλεκτρον ( elektron ), the Greek word for " amber ", which soon gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity.

The same word was also used for the substance amber, probably because of the pale yellow color of certain varieties, and it is from the electrostatic properties of amber that the modern English words " electron " and " electricity " derive.

There are two primary styles of barley wine, the American which tends to be more hoppy and thus more bitter with colors ranging from amber to light brown and the English style which tends to be less hoppy and thus less bitter with more variety in color ranging from red-gold to opaque black.

The English word electricity was first used in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne, derived from Gilbert's 1600 New Latin electricus, meaning " like amber ".

It is erroneously believed that Motherwell chose the claret and amber colours because they were the racing colours of Lord Hamilton ; it is more likely that Motherwell were influenced by Bradford City's English FA cup win in 1911.

Pliny described the Ligurios as having certain electrical properties, which a number of scholars have taken to imply that it referred to amber, which was one of the first items to have been discovered to have electrical properties ; the English stem electric-derives from the Greek word for amber ( elektron ).

The first recorded use of amber as a color name in English was in 1500.

The name probably derives from the Old English bēd, or prayer ; if Bede was given the name at his birth, then his family had probably always planned for him to enter the clergy.

The English word breast derives from the Old English word brēost ( breast, bosom ) from Proto-Germanic breustam ( breast ), from the Proto-Indo-European base bhreus – ( to swell, to sprout ).

The word borough derives from the Old English word burh, meaning a fortified settlement.

The term " common law " originally derives from the 1150s and 1160s, when Henry II of England established the secular English tribunals.

Its English name, chive, derives from the French word cive, from cepa, the Latin word for onion.

The English " cumin " derives from the Old English cymen ( or Old French cumin ), from Latin cuminum, which is the latinisation of the Greek κύμινον ( kuminon ), cognate with Hebrew כמון ( kammon ) and Arabic كمون ( kammun ).

* In Italian musical terms used in English, it means " with " ( con means " with " in both Italian and Spanish as the word derives from Latin )

The English word celibacy derives from the Latin caelibatus, " state of being unmarried ",

For example, the English words shirt and skirt are doublets ; the former derives from the Old English sċyrte, while the latter is loaned from Old Norse skyrta, both of which derive from the Proto-Germanic * skurtjōn -.

First attested in English 1664, the word " celery " derives from the French céleri, in turn from Italian seleri, the plural of selero, which comes from Late Latin selinon, the latinisation of the Greek σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

However, the best modern analysis of the sources of the creed ( by A. de Halleux, in Revue Theologique de Louvain 7, 1976 ) and a reading of the acts, or proceedings, of the council ( recently translated into English ) show that the bishops considered Cyril the great authority and that even the language of ' two natures ' derives from him.

In ancient Greek, muthos, from which the English word " myth " derives, meant " story, narrative.

In the essay a blind English mathematician named Saunderson argues that since knowledge derives from the senses, then mathematics is the only form of knowledge that both he and a sighted person can agree about.

In 1651, John French published The Art of Distillation the first major English compendium of practice, though it has been claimed that much of it derives from Braunschweig's work.

The English word " dragon " derives from Greek δράκων ( drákōn ), " dragon, serpent of huge size, water-snake ", which probably comes from the verb δρακεῖν ( drakeîn ) " to see clearly ".

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

The English term " empiric " derives from the Greek word ἐμπειρία, which is cognate with and translates to the Latin experientia, from which we derive the word " experience " and the related " experiment ".

Many new words can be derived simply by changing these suffixes, just as-ly derives adverbs from adjectives in English: From vidi ( to see ), we get vida ( visual ), vide ( visually ), and vido ( sight ).

The English term Friday derives from the Anglo-Saxon name for Frigg, Frige.

He notes that the English word " capricious " derives from it, " evoking the animal's skittish temperament ", adding that " the name neatly expresses two aspects of Frank Capra's personality: emotionalism and obstinacy.