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Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".
While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.
The term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, was applied to the southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century.
The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".
The term may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp.
The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.
' American ' is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World ( also called " the Americas ").
The term ' aromatic ' was assigned before the physical mechanism determining aromaticity was discovered, and was derived from the fact that many of the compounds have a sweet scent.
The term is derived from the Greek ( allotropia ; variability, changeableness ).
The term is less common in modern texts, and was originally derived from a dichotomy with major tranquilizers, also known as neuroleptics or antipsychotics.
This term derived from the Greek adjective ( ataraktos ) which means " not disturbed, not excited, without confusion, steady, calm ".
The name Anabaptist is derived from the Greek term anabaptista, or " one who baptizes over again.
The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.
The term is derived from the Greek word anemos, meaning wind, and is used to describe any airspeed measurement instrument used in meteorology or aerodynamics.
The term ' ballroom dancing ' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ' to dance ' ( a ballroom being a large room specially designed for such dances ).
The term Vascuence, derived from Latin vasconĭce, has acquired negative connotations over the centuries and is not well liked amongst Basque speakers generally.
The term lipid comprises a diverse range of molecules and to some extent is a catchall for relatively water-insoluble or nonpolar compounds of biological origin, including waxes, fatty acids, fatty-acid derived phospholipids, sphingolipids, glycolipids, and terpenoids ( e. g., retinoids and steroids ).
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, thought the term was derived from the Spanish barrueco, a large, irregularly-shaped pearl, and it was for a time confined to the craft of the jeweller.
The name of the god may have been derived from bragr, or the term bragr may have been formed to describe ' what Bragi does '.
All subsequent manuscripts of the Chronicle use the term Brytenwalda, which may have represented the original term or derived from a common error.
It is possible that the Roman term basterna, denoting a type of wagon or litter, is derived from the name of this tribe, which was known, like many Germanic tribes, to travel with a wagon-train for their families.
Previously, there were a number of false etymologies, including a claim that the term derived from a New York brothel whose madam was known as Eve.
The name comes from the medieval-Latin term balneum ( or balineum ) Mariae — literally, Mary's bath — from which the French bain de Marie, or bain-marie, is derived.

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Scandinavian cartographers from the early 15th century attempted to localise or identify Ginnungagap as a real geographic location from which the creation myth derived.
* Heiðabýr is derived from old Scandinavian sources and is the oldest known name.
" Dickson-Wright further cites etymologist Walter William Skeat as further suggestion of possible Scandinavian origins: Skeat claimed that the hag – element of the word is derived from the Old Norse haggw or the Old Icelandic hoggva ( höggva in modern Icelandic ), meaning ' to hew ' or strike with a sharp weapon, relating to the chopped-up contents of the dish.
In addition, these explanations could only explain the masculine ( Old Scandinavian víkingr ) and ignore the feminine ( Old Scandinavian víking ), which is a serious problem because the masculine can easily be derived from the feminine but hardly vice versa.
* In Scandinavian languages, adverbs are typically derived from adjectives by adding the suffix '- t ', which makes it identical to the adjective's neuter form.
However, it used other dialect forms where they made meanings clearer ; for example, the northern " they ", " their " and " them " ( derived from Scandinavian forms ) were used rather than the London " hi / they ", " hir " and " hem.
In Scandinavian countries, Saturday is called lördag, " lørdag ," or laurdag, the name being derived from the old word laugr / laug ( hence Icelandic name Laugardagur ), meaning bath, thus Lördag equates to bath-day.
The origin of the name Segovia is said of Celtiberian origin, but also thought it was derived from the Visigoth conquest and occupation of Castile by the Goths, a Scandinavian / Germanic tribe lived in Castile from the 4th to 6th centuries AD.
The North American name " loon " is a reference to the bird's clumsiness on land, and is derived from Scandinavian words for lame, such as Icelandic " lúinn " and Swedish " lam ".
In Old French, the polecat was called fissau, which was derived from the Low German and Scandinavian verb for " to make a disagreable smell ".
Its English name, derived from the Scandinavian Þingvöllr ( field or meeting-place of the thing, or local assembly ; compare Tynwald, Tingwall, Thingwall in the British Isles alone, plus many others across northern Europe ), preserves the Viking connections of the town ; Gaels call it Inbhir Pheofharain (), meaning " the mouth of the Peffery ") or Baile Chàil meaning " cabbage town ".
The modern Scandinavian names are derived from an Old Norse nykr, meaning " river horse.
The word Hnaflbaflwhiflsnifltafl ( a predecessor to the game of Thud ) could be a Dwarfish word, but since it is obviously derived from the Scandinavian " Hnefatafl ", and since it contains a number of letters ( f, l, w ) not found in any Dwarfish words and lacks any of the diacritics one would expect in a Dwarfish word that long, it is probably of human, rather than Dwarfish origin.
The idea of a troll living under a bridge is derived from the Scandinavian fairytale Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Its name is derived from the medieval territory of Scandinavian foreigners () that settled in the area.
Carlingford in Ireland derived its name from Scandinavian origins, from the time of the Viking invasions and settlements.
The Christmas stocking custom is derived from the Germanic / Scandinavian figure Odin.
The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark or fuþark ( derived from their first six letters of the alphabet: F, U, Þ, A, R, and K ); the Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc or fuþorc ( due to sound changes undergone in Old English by the same six letters ).
" Doona " is derived from the equivalent common Scandinavian term dyne and was popularized by the retailer IKEA in the 1970s.
Many of these are derived from folklore, primarily Greek mythology, but also British and Scandinavian folklore.

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