The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

This has been widely classified as a folk etymology, and numerous speculative etymologies, many of them non-Greek, have been suggested in scholarship.

The latter etymology has resulted in a number of theories.

This etymology has remained the standard derivation of the term.

Since the later discovery of the electron, an easier to remember, and more durably correct technically although historically false, etymology has been suggested: anode, from the Greek anodos, ' way up ', ' the way ( up ) out of the cell ( or other device ) for electrons '.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

In any event, Peters never asserted that the blue laws were originally printed on blue paper, and this has come to be regarded as an example of false etymology.

The etymology of the word chemistry has been much disputed.

Since the later discovery of the electron, an easier to remember, and more durably technically correct ( although historically false ), etymology has been suggested: cathode, from the Greek kathodos, ' way down ', ' the way ( down ) into the cell ( or other device ) for electrons '.

Maier ( 2010 ) states that the etymology of Cernunnos is unknown, as the Celtic word for " horn " has an a ( as in Carnonos ).

By contrast, a dictionary definition has additional details, typically including an etymology showing snapshots of the earlier meanings and the parent language.

In different Indo-European languages, each of these words has a difficult etymology because of taboo deformations — a euphemism was substituted for the original, which no longer occurs in the language.

While this Hebrew name is not the etymology of Essaioi / Esseni, the Aramaic equivalent Hesi ' im known from Eastern Aramaic texts has been suggested.

The supposition that the early < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > vidula was adopted independently in more than one < nowiki > language < nowiki ></ nowiki > would account adequately for all the < nowiki ></ nowiki > forms ; on the other hand, * fiÞulôn-may be an < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > word of native etymology, though no satisfactory < nowiki ></ nowiki > derivation has been found.

The name has been explained as derived from a Celtic term for " far islands ", but in popular etymology it has long been understood as based on Old Norse fár " livestock ", thus fær-øer " sheep islands ".

However, this Irish etymology was suggested by Daniel Cassidy, whose work has been widely criticised by reputable linguists and scholars.

The etymology of the name is obscure, but ' the one who illuminates the world ' has been proposed.

The etymology of the name is not clear, and its form has no parallel in Hebrew.

The etymology of hoosier is unknown, but it has been used since at least 1830.

However, in spite of these recorded Manx forms, no satisfactory etymology has been proposed for Hop-tu-Naa within Goidelic.

This has been said to derive from the παν-" all " and θήρ from θηρευτής " predator ", meaning " predator of all " ( animals ), though this may be a folk etymology — it may instead be ultimately of Sanskrit origin, from pundarikam, the Sanskrit word for " tiger ".

has a similar etymology.

The etymology of the name Loki has yet to be solved.

Alternatively, it has been also suggested that this is of non-Greek origin and probably of non-Indo-European origin too, while it is of an unknown etymology.

Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.

" Though dozens of etymology suggestions have been published, this is the only etymology published before 1947 that was confirmed by Qumran text self-designation references, and it is gaining acceptance among scholars.

It is recognized as the etymology of the form Ossaioi ( and note that Philo also offered an O spelling ) and Essaioi and Esseni spelling variations have been discussed by VanderKam, Goranson and others.

The results of medieval etymology, for example, were plausible given the insights available at the time, but have mostly been rejected by modern linguists.

The territory is said in folk etymology to have been named after Pomeso, a son of Widewuto, legendary chieftain of the Prussians.

Another etymology that has been proposed is English pigeon, a bird sometimes used for carrying brief written messages, especially in times prior to modern telecommunications.

It is unknown how the word Lapp came into the Norse language, but it may have been introduced by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus to distinguish between Fish-Fennians ( coastal tribes ) and Lap-Fennians ( forest tribes ), supporting the second etymology.

The etymology of Versailles is clear that the argument tends to privilege the Latin word versare, meaning " to keep turning, turn over and over ", expression used in medieval times for plowed lands, cleared lands ( lands that had been repeatedly " turned over ").

The origin of the name and of a boar ( the scrofa semilanuta ) as a symbol of the city are fancifully accounted for in Andrea Alciato's Emblemata ( 1584 ), beneath a woodcut of the first raising of the city walls, where a boar is seen lifted from the excavation, and the etymology of Mediolanum given as " half-wool ", explained in Latin and in French.

The etymology of Liber ( archaic form Loifer, Loifir ) was explained by Émile Benveniste as formed on the IE theme * leudh-plus the suffix-es -; its original meaning is " the one of germination, he who ensures the sprouting of crops ".

In this tale the etymology of Culhwch is explained as " sow run " ( cul " narrow, a narrow thing "; hwch " sow, pig "), but this is likely to be folk etymology.

Its etymology has been explained either as “ where water falls ,” or “ place of those who fled ” or a combination of the two.

The etymology of the name tiorba has not yet been explained sufficiently.

Later on, however, popular etymology explained the word mellah as a " salted, cursed ground " or a place where the Jews " salted the heads of decapitated rebels ”, highlighting the outcast connotations attached to this word.

According to popular etymology, the name of the battle is explained in this way: many of Welles ’ men were wearing jackets displaying Warwick ’ s and Clarence ’ s livery.

Much of the confusion over etymology of the name results from the fact that Marsh never explicitly explained it in his papers.

By that time, the origins of the Therapeutae were already lost in the past, and Philo was even unsure about the etymology of their name, which he explained as meaning either physicians of souls or servants of God.

In the etymology provided by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, jennet is derived from the French genet, from Spanish jinete, a light horseman who rides à la jineta, explained as " with his legs tucked up.