In the 19th century, one etymological explanation was that the name came from the popular Kazakh legend of the white goose ( qaz means " goose ", aq means " white ").

This explanation is however not very plausible in etymological terms.

An alternative etymological explanation is that the word came from the Urdu qulī (, قلی ), which itself could be from the Turkish word for slave, qul.

But the most appropriate explanation about etymological roots of the city according to М. П. Янко in his Топонімічний словник України is that the word is a Turkish word meaning the place of Khan. 2 In the Middle Ages it was located on the Road from Varangians to Greeks.

" A variant of this explanation is also given by the German etymological dictionary " Kluge " that says the word pumpernickel is older than its usage for the particular type of bread, and may have been used as a mocking name for a person of unrefined manners (" farting nick ") first.

In about 1140 or 1145, he published a Gospel-Harmony with a grammatical and etymological explanation of the Greek, Hebrew, and some Latin words found in the text, under the title Unum ex quattuor, sive de concordia evangelistarum ( printed in Patrologia Latina 186: 11-620 ).

Based on the proposed correspondences listed below, the following phoneme inventory has been reconstructed for the hypothetical Proto (- Macro )- Altaic language ( taken from Blažek's summary of the newest Altaic etymological dictionary et al.

Such word sets can also be called etymological twins, and of course they may come in groups of higher numbers, as with, for example, the words wain ( native ) wagon ( Dutch ) and vehicle ( Latin ) in English.

In Faroese, ð is not assigned to any particular phoneme and appears mostly for etymological reasons ; however, it does show where most of the Faroese glides are, and when the ð is before r it is, in a few words, pronounced.

In Olav Jakobsen Høyem's version of Nynorsk based on Trøndersk, the ð was always silent and was introduced for etymological reasons.

The term evangelical has its etymological roots in the Greek word for " gospel " or " good news ": ευαγγελιον ( evangelion ), from eu-" good " and angelion " message ".

Athenaeus ( writing in the 1st or 2nd century BCE, and drawing on the etymological speculation of Apollodorus of Athens ) notes that the red mullet is sacred to Hecate, " on account of the resemblance of their names ; for that the goddess is trimorphos, of a triple form ".

Axel Schuessler's etymological dictionary presents two possibilities for the tonal morphology of dào 道 " road ; way ; method " < Middle Chinese dâu < sup > B </ sup > < Old Chinese * lûʔ and dào 道 or 導 " to go along ; bring along ; conduct ; explain ; talk about " < Middle dâu < sup > C </ sup > < Old * lûh.

Terms with an etymological equivalent to Yule are used in the Nordic countries for the Christian Christmas ( with its religious rites ), but also for other holidays of the season.

In modern Germanic language-speaking areas and some other Northern European countries, the etymological cognates to Yule are employed for the Christmas.

In order to avoid room for difference in interpretation, law-makers ( codificators ) sometimes deviate from etymological ( definiendum plus definientia ) definitions.

In addition, local dialects employ derivations of the Malay word then in use for ' silver ', in contrast to the term used in wider Melanesian society, which has etymological roots in Chinese, a consequence of the regional trade with China that was developed in the 6th and 7th centuries.

Although originating in the philological tradition, much current etymological research is done in language families for which little or no early documentation is available, such as Uralic and Austronesian.

The Latin title dux ( the etymological root of duke ), which was phonetically rendered δουξ in Greek, was a common title for imperial generals in the Late Roman Empires ( west and east ), but note it was lower in rank than Comes ( the etymological root of Count ).

John Lindow says that due to similarity between the goddess Sága's Sökkvabekkr and Fensalir, the open drinking between Sága and Odin, and the potential etymological basis for Sága being a seeress " have led most scholars to understand Sága as another name for Frigg.

The origin of the name oud ( and its etymological cousin, lute ) for the musical instrument is uncertain, but the Arabic العود ( al-ʿūd ) refers literally to a thin piece of wood similar to the shape of a straw, and may refer to the wooden plectrum traditionally used for playing the oud, to the thin strips of wood used for the back, or to the wooden soundboard that distinguished it from similar instruments with skin-faced bodies.

The reason for the introduction of the initial " d " is not known, although a probable source is an etymological merging from the Dutch article " de ," as in " De affodil.

If such forms represent a Welsh version of Bernicia, it is unclear why Welsh would need to borrow a ' foreign ' name for the area, so the former hypothesis is usually accepted, although no etymological analysis has produced a consensus.

He was also familiar with Sanskrit, Latin, Greek, Pahlavi, Avestan, Turkish and Italian, which he used for etymological studies.

However, the Oxford English Dictionary takes the obvious derivation from goose and berry as probable because " the grounds on which plants and fruits have received names associating them with animals are so often inexplicable that the inappropriateness in the meaning does not necessarily give good grounds for believing that the word is an etymological corruption.

Based on some etymological interpretation of the words strava and medos, and subsequent historical appearance, the latter has been taken to include a form of pre-Slavic language.

This etymological distinction avoids confusion of the literatures and the forms, with the novel being the more important, established fictional form.

The earliest form of the river's name is Raisajoki, meaning " marsh / bog river ", and etymological evidence of this can be seen in the Estonian word raisnik, meaning " peatland meadow ".

While it might be common to say that AIDS is " endemic " in Africa — meaning found in an area — this is a use of the word in its etymological not epidemiological form.

Based on etymological interpretation of the words strava and medos, and subsequent historical appearance of Slavic languages in this region, these other languages have been taken to include a form of proto-Slavic.

The Civil Script eliminated some archaic letters ( Ѯ, Ѱ, Ѡ, Ѧ ), but reinforced an etymological basis for the alphabet, influencing Mykhaylo Maksymovych's nineteenth-century Galician Maksymovychivka script for Ukrainian, and its descendent, the Pankevychivka, which is still in use, in a slightly modified form, for the Rusyn language in Carpathian Ruthenia.

The traditional East Finnish name of this area was Kainuu, and it has been suggested that the Scandinavian name of Kvenland and Kainuu share etymological roots.

Still, there was already much debate at the time opposing the tenets of a traditional, etymological orthography, and those of a reformed, phonological transcription of the language.

However, this is a modern invention and there is no etymological or traditional connection between Idris and Arthur.

It has no etymological connection in French with Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle ( attested as Egincourt 875 ), which is derived from another Germanic male name * Ingin -.

As-gard, he conjectures, is the home of the Æsir ( singular Ás ) in As-ia, making a folk etymological connection between the three " As -"; that is, the Æsir were " men of Asia ", not gods, who moved from Asia to the north and some of which intermarried with the peoples already there.

The word assassin is often believed to derive from the word Hashshashin ( Persian: حش ّ اشين, ħashshāshīyīn, also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin, or Assassins ), and shares its etymological roots with hashish ( or ; from Arabic: ).

( The etymological convention that verbs derived from Greek roots are spelled with-ize and those from Latin with-ise is preserved in that practice.

It is from this fanciful etymological musing that Thomas Malory got the notion that Excalibur meant " cut steel " ("' the name of it ,' said the lady, ' is Excalibur, that is as moche to say, as Cut stele.

The disagreement between definitions is possibly due to the accumulation of evidence from archaeology of the original anciency of the metal in civilization ; in reference to " the dawn of civilization ", and in this respect has become the adopted modern meaning, disassociated from the original etymological Latin.

Little is known about early Germanic history, except through their recorded interactions with the Roman Empire, etymological research and archaeological finds.

The English word house derives directly from the Old English Hus meaning " dwelling, shelter, home, house ," which in turn derives from Proto-Germanic Khusan ( reconstructed by etymological analysis ) which is of unknown origin.

" This theory of the Roman origins of many European folk traditions related to Diana or Hecate was explicitly advanced at least as early as 1807 and is reflected in numerous etymological claims by lexicographers from the 17th to the 19th century, deriving " hag " and / or " hex " from Hecate by way of haegtesse ( Anglo-Saxon ) and hagazussa ( Old High German ).

The character set is broadly broken into the following categories ( though these are by no means the only etymological roots of the characters we see in modern Chinese script ):

Since lexicalization may modify lexeme phonologically and morphologically it is possible, that a single etymological source may be borrowed in two or more forms into a single lexicon.

In Finnish, the month is called maaliskuu, which is believed to originate from maallinen kuu, meaning earthy month, because during maaliskuu, earth finally becomes visible under the snow ( other etymological theories have however been put forward ).

The Latin etymological counterpart of Reich is not, but rather.

As such, the use of the term in antiquity, or even using a strictly etymological definition, is not common in the academy.

The ambivalence of her function is suggested in the etymological relationship of the root * venes-with Latin venenum ( poison, venom ), in the sense of " a charm, magic philtre ".