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 word computation has an archaic meaning ( from its Latin etymological roots ), but the word has come back in use with the arising of a new scientific discipline: computer science.

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.

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

Since English, German and Dutch have many of the same etymological origins, there actually are a great number of words in both languages that are very similar and do have the same meaning ( e. g. word / Wort / woord, book / Buch / boek, house / Haus / huis, water / Wasser / water ...).

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.

Pharos became the etymological origin of the word ' lighthouse ' in Greek ( φάρος ), many Romance languages, such as French ( phare ), Italian and Spanish ( faro ), Romanian ( far ) and Portuguese ( farol ) and even some Slavic languages like Bulgarian ( far ).

The etymological origin of the name Mälaren stems from the Old Norse word mælir appearing in historical records in the 1320s and meaning gravel.

Note that the English word jaggery, a coarse brown sugar made from date palm sap or sugar cane juice, has a similar etymological origin ; Portuguese xagara or jagara, derived from Malayalam cakkarā from the Sanskrit śarkarā.

Ancient Greek etymological speculation connected the name to the Greek word " μύκης " ( mycēs ), ' mushroom '.

The etymological origins of the word are from the early 16th century, from Middle English catirpel, catirpeller, probably an alteration of Old North French catepelose: cate, cat ( from Latin cattus ) + pelose, hairy ( from Latin pilōsus ).

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.

The ue ending of the word seems to be a fourteenth-century attempt to show " proper pronunciation ", but it is " neither etymological nor phonetic ".

In this matter, one has to consider the fact that the etymological development of the term dwarf differs from the similar-sounding word scarf ( plural scarves ).

The English word priest has presbuter as the etymological origin.

There are etymological equivalents in the Finnic languages such as the Ingrian and Votic word sauna, Estonian saun and Livonian sōna.

The word itself should not be confused with the " ordinary " use of the word intentional, but should rather be taken as playing on the etymological roots of the word.

In recent years an etymological back formation has been popularized that suggests it means " son of corruption " or " son of defilement " from another Gaelic word also pronounced " corb " which meant " something is not right in the council " and referring specifically to political treachery or dishonesty, but this " corb " postdates the usage of the names Cormac by several centuries, and thus could not be related to the name.

While the word churl went down in the social scale, the first name derived from the same etymological source (" Karl " in German, " Charles " in French and English, " Carlos " in Spanish etc.

The agency's acronym is an allusion to the Latin word rus (" countryside "), the etymological source of the word rural.

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 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 ).

Bydgoszcz however has a long, rich history of etymological change:

A 19th-century antiquarian source posits an etymological relationship with Welsh Essyllwg and other forms of identical meaning, such as Essyllyr, meaning " of Essyllt ": however, this is now considered unlikely.

This explanation is however not very plausible in etymological terms.

In other positions, etymological seems to be in free variation with ( etymological, however varies only with ).

It should, however, be carefully observed that some attributes, which, from the etymological point of view are negative, convey, nevertheless, a positive meaning.

The generally small scale of the medieval pictures has led secondly to an etymological confusion of the term with minuteness and to its application to small paintings especially portrait miniatures, which did however grow from the same tradition and at least initially use similar techniques.

The figure remains the subject of some scholarly discussion, largely focused upon etymological connections and comparisons to figures in later ( particularly Norse ) Germanic mythology.

The question of the ultimate etymological identity of the two names remains open today, but regardless of etymology, the two names have often been taken as exchangeable or synonym from the time of Herodotus.

Rudolf Simek says that it is uncertain whether or not Vör was a goddess as attested in the Prose Edda and if the etymological connection presented there ( between Vör and Old Norse vörr, meaning " careful ") is correct.

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 etymological root of the word silat is uncertain and most hypotheses link it to any similar-sounding word.

His one major survivor, the philosophical treatise, Theologiae Graecae compendium (" Compendium of Greek Theology "; the Greek title being uncertain ) is a manual of " popular mythology as expounded in the etymological and symbolical interpretations of the Stoics ".

Of uncertain etymological origin, the word shanty emerged in the mid-19th century in reference to an appreciably distinct genre of work song, developed especially in American-style merchant vessels that had come to prominence in decades prior to the American Civil War.

The etymological dictionary of Corominas says the origin is uncertain, but it suggests that it comes from the Vulgar Latin cappula, plural of cappulum, sword hilt.

Although the etymological origins of Wa remain uncertain, Chinese historical texts recorded an ancient people residing in the Japanese archipelago ( perhaps Kyūshū ), named something like * ʼWâ or * ʼWər 倭. Carr ( 1992: 9 – 10 ) surveys prevalent proposals for Wa's etymology ranging from feasible ( transcribing Japanese first-person pronouns waga 我が " my ; our " and ware 我 " I ; we ; oneself ") to shameful ( writing Japanese Wa as 倭 implying " dwarf "), and summarizes interpretations for * ʼWâ " Japanese " into variations on two etymologies: " behaviorally ' submissive ' or physically ' short '.

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 ):

The kanji expression is from the Chinese meaning " tiger staff ", but as to the Japanese appellation, one straightforward interpretation is that it comes from " remove pain " ( alluding to its painkilling use ), though there are other etymological explanations offered.

It has been argued that the name may instead come from the Old English brycg ( gang plank ) or Old Norse bryggja ( quay ), though this idea has been opposed on etymological grounds.

She was especially worshipped in Crete, in the cities Lato and doubtless, from its etymological link, Eleutherna, though no archaeological find has identified her there.

* Not to be confused with the now exclusively monarchical ( i. e. royal ) Sire, even though this has the same etymological root.

Many etymological suggestions have been made, though there is no general agreement:

Óðr is often theorized as somehow connected to Odin ( Old Norse: Óðinn ), the head of the Æsir in Norse mythology, by way of etymological similarities between the two ( Lindow states that the linguistic relationship is identical to that of Ullr and Ullin — often considered as variant names of a single god ), and the fact that both are described as going on long journeys, though Lindow points out that Snorri is careful to keep them apart.

⟨ Ll ⟩ is the most common in English, though it does not represent a different sound from ⟨ l ⟩, being essentially an etymological digraph.

Even though etymological research originally grew from the philological tradition, currently much etymological research is done on language families where little or no early documentation is available, such as Uralic and Austronesian.

( Ancient Greek and Latin both contain words resembling boo that mean " to cry or shout aloud ," though there is no known etymological connection to the modern English word.

There is probably an etymological link between hajdú and the Turkish word hajdud which was used by the Ottomans to describe Hungarian infantry soldiers, though it is not clear whether the word traveled from Hungarian to Turkish or vice versa.