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With this derivation, the name would have a double meaning in the poem: When the hero is functioning rightly, his men bring grief to the enemy, but when wrongly, his men get the grief of war.
The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's grandmother and her cronies, but there is no definitive source for the derivation of the name ' Marple '.
The attempts to discover a derivation for the name, Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, or other, have not been entirely successful:
This was the derivation of Alemanni used by Edward Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and by the anonymous contributor of notes assembled from the papers of Nicolas Fréret, published in 1753, who noted that it was the name used by outsiders for those who called themselves the Suevi.
The tribal name, probably a derivation from batawjō (" good island ", from Germanic bat-" good, excellent " and awjō " island, land near water "), refers to the region's fertility, today known as the fruitbasket of the Netherlands ( the Betuwe ).
The " warrior " derivation was adopted by the linguist, Julius Pokorny, who presented it as being from Indo-European * bhei ( ə )-, * bhī -, " hit ;" however, not finding any Celtic names close to it ( except for the Boii ), he adduces examples somewhat more widely from originals further back in time: phohiio-s -, a Venetic personal name ; Boioi, an Illyrian tribe ; Boiōtoi, a Greek tribal name (" the Boeotians ") and a few others.
This name is possibly of Celtic derivation ( cf.
Others have suggested a derivation from the Iron Age and Romano-British place name Camulodunum, one of the first capitals of Roman Britain and which would have significance in Romano-British culture.
Many suggestions for the derivation of the name " foxglove " have been proffered.
The most probable derivation of the name “ Yaldabaoth ” is that given by Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, “ Daughter of Chaos ,” from Hebrew yalda bahut, ילדא בהות.
The derivation of the word " Edda " as the name of Snorri Sturluson ’ s treatise on poetry from the Latin " edo ", " I compose ( poetry )" by analogy with " kredda ", " superstition " from Latin " credo ", " creed " is now widely accepted.
The name Ea is allegedly Hurrian in origin while others claim that it is possibly of Semitic origin and may be a derivation from the West-Semitic root * hyy meaning " life " in this case used for " spring ", " running water.
In the past the favoured derivation of the name " Eden " was from the Akkadian edinnu, itself derived from a Sumerian word meaning " plain " or " steppe ", but it is now believed to be more closely related to an Aramaic root meaning " fruitful, well-watered.
Less likely is the commonly proposed derivation from Welsh arth " bear " + ( g ) wr " man " ( earlier * Arto-uiros in Brittonic ); there are phonological difficulties with this theory — notably that a Brittonic compound name * Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh * Artgur and Middle / Modern Welsh * Arthwr and not Arthur ( in Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in-ur-never words ending in-wr-which confirms that the second element cannot be wr " man ").
Among its etymologies there are a derivation from the word Lietava, for a small river, a possible derivation from a word leičiai, but most probable is the name for union of Lithuanian ethnic tribes (' susilieti, lietis ' means to unite and the word ' lietuva ' means something which has been united ).
The derivation of the name “ Limburg ” is not quite clear and may well hearken back to a castle built here ( Burg means “ castle ” in German ).
The biblical text explains the name Mošeh משה as a derivation of the root mšh משה " to draw ", in:
Sachs believes the strong rhythm of the music, a derivation of the name from a term meaning " to stamp " and the quotation from the Froissart poem above definitely label the estampie as a dance.
The origin or derivation of the name is unknown.
"< ref name =" OEDhenge "> Christopher Chippindale's Stonehenge Complete gives the derivation of the name Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words stān meaning " stone ", and either hencg meaning " hinge " ( because the stone lintels hinge on the upright stones ) or hen ( c ) en meaning " hang " or " gallows " or " instrument of torture ".

derivation and Latin
home ), itself a derivation from " live " (> Greek, Latin sinō ); then, the Germanic * χimbra-finds an exact cognate in Slavic sębrъ " farmer " (> Croatian, Serbian sebar, Russ.
The derivation from the Latin lolium ( tares ) may be an interesting alternative.
Apart from the mythical derivation of Lazio given by the ancients as the place where Jupiter " lay hid " from his father seeking to kill him, a major modern etymology is that Lazio comes from the Latin word " latus ", meaning " wide ", expressing the idea of " flat land " meaning the Roman Campagna.
Both were drawn from the Classical Latin term origanum, which probably referred specifically to sweet marjoram, and was itself a derivation from the Greek ( origanon ), which simply referred to " an acrid herb ".
When deriving English words from their Greek or Latin roots the gender specific ending ( in this case "- on ," which indicates the word is neuter ) is normally dropped, using only the root of the word in the derivation.
Hole is Anglo-Saxon for cave which is itself of Latin / Norman derivation.
Western Yiddish includes additional words of Latin derivation ( but still very few ): for example, orn ( to pray ), cf.
It was borrowed in 1792 from French numismatiques, itself a derivation from Late Latin numismatis, genitive of numisma, a variant of nomisma meaning " coin ".
The derivation of the word augur is uncertain ; ancient authors believed that it contained the words avi and gero — Latin for " directing the birds "— but historical-linguistic evidence points instead to the root aug -, " to increase, to prosper.
The name vaccinium was used in classical Latin for a type of berry ( probably the bilberry V. myrtillus ), but its ultimate derivation is obscure ; it is not the same word as vaccinum " of or pertaining to cows ".
The name is a direct derivation of the Latin cicada, meaning " tree cricket ".
The word derivation of the Latin psȳchē is from the Greek psȳchḗ, literally, breath, derivative of psȳ ́ chein, to breathe, blow, hence, live.
It is widely believed that Murcia's name is derived from the Latin words of Myrtea or Murtea, meaning land of Myrtle ( the plant is known to grow in the general area ), although it may also be a derivation of the word Murtia, which would mean Murtius Village ( Murtius was a common Roman name ).
Its derivation is uncertain, possibly stemming from the Latin word sol, meaning " sun ," referring to its status as a plant of the sun.
19th century author Charlotte Mary Yonge writes that the derivation of Idonae from Idunn is " almost certain ," noting that although Idonae may be " the feminine of the Latin idoneus ( fit ), its absence in the Romance countries may be taken as an indication that it was a mere classicalizing of the northern goddess of the apples of youth.
Arenac County was organized in 1883 and the name Arenac, coined by Henry Schoolcraft, is a derivation of the Latin " arena " and the Native American " ac ".
In that respect, derivation differs from compounding by which free morphemes are combined ( lawsuit, Latin professor ).
The name of the kingdom is of Brythonic origin, perhaps from Deifr, meaning " waters ", or from Daru, meaning " oak ", in which case it would mean " the people of the Derwent ", a derivation also found in the Latin name for Malton, Derventio.
A number of earlier scholars have argued for a borrowing from Latin symbola, Against this derivation ( in the case of OE symbel ), P. A.
However, the name seems to be actually a derivation of the Latin expression para bellum, which means " prepare for war " and was used to refer to the then official sidearm used by the Brazilian governmental troops and by some of the law enforcement soldiers, the Luger pistol, which was produced by the German arms maker DWM.
This French word is a derivation from the cardinal number douze (" twelve ", from Latin duodĕcim ) and the collective suffix-aine ( from Latin-ēna ), a suffix also used to form other words with similar meanings such as quinzaine ( a group of fifteen ), vingtaine ( a group of twenty ), centaine ( a group of one hundred ), etc.
The Second Edition Oxford English Dictionary gives the history of the word as obscure, but suggests an apparent derivation from the Greek prefix penta-( five ) combined with the Latin suffix-culum ( diminutive ).

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