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.

The etymology of Apollo is uncertain.

Paeοn is probably connected with the Mycenean Pa-ja-wo, but the etymology is the only evidence.

The etymology is obscure.

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.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, " to open ," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to " open ," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις ( anoixis ) ( opening ) for spring.

While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (" Jew-hatred "),

abate ), as commonly used in the Catholic Church on the European continent, is the equivalent of the English " Father " ( parallel etymology ), being loosely applied to all who have received the tonsure.

The etymology of Greek is unknown.

Old Norse askr literally means " ash tree " but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed.

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

An etymology for this name is presented by ' B.

The etymology of the name Ares is traditionally connected with the Greek word ἀρή ( arē ), the Ionic form of the Doric ἀρά ( ara ), " bane, ruin, curse, imprecation ".

Its connection with Ares, perhaps based on a false etymology, is purely etiological myth.

Art is an autonomous entity for philosophy, because art deals with the senses ( i. e. the etymology of aesthetics ) and art is as such free of any moral or political purpose.

Afghan ( Pashto / Persian: افغان ; see etymology ) is used to indicate a citizen of Afghanistan.

Albinism ( from Latin albus, " white "; see extended etymology, also called achromia, achromasia, or achromatosis ) is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or defect of tyrosinase, a copper-containing enzyme involved in the production of melanin.

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 ".

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

No clear etymology can be found for the name of the chamber ; the most common explanation, dating to the later 16th century, is ' because at the first all the roofe thereof was decked with images of starres gilted '.

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 ").

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the etymology of the name Puck is " unsettled ", and it is not clear even whether its origin is Germanic ( cf.

The etymology is not clear .).

The etymology of Frodsham's name is not entirely clear.

Bradley ’ s review praised the clear format and simple design of the dictionary and its economy in using quotations, but it also challenged Murray ’ s etymology, and this caused quite a stir.

Ford's quote uses the term in a sporting context and serves to provide a clear etymology as well:

The term is found for the first time in Yaska's Nirukta ( 1. 2, 14 ), where the reference is probably to the science or a text of Nirukta ( etymology ) ( though this term is found in the passage VIII. 33. 16 of the also but the meaning of it is far from clear there ).

Sekularo has no clear etymology but is likely to be related to Latin saecularis.

The etymology of the toponym Narva is not clear, but according to the most common theory it comes from a Vepsian word narva meaning waterfall or stream.

This is regarded as a clear case of folk etymology for the place name by some, and although the form of the name appears to be dual ( hence two ...), some at the present day prefer to regard the termination in this case as a corruption of a shorter ending.

The Gaelic etymology of the name is not clear.

The name Ranrikeis sometimes said to have derived its name from Old Norse goddess of the sea, Rán. There is no clear etymology of Rán.

The etymology of Argeş is not clear.

The etymology of the phrase " Greek gift " in this context is not entirely clear.

* Names without a clear Greek etymology that can't however be ascribed to any identifiable non-Greek linguistic group.

The Macedonian names of about half or more of the months of the ancient Macedonian calendar have a clear and generally accepted Greek etymology ( e. g. Dios, Apellaios, Artemisios, Loos, Daisios ), though some of the remaining ones have sometimes been considered to be Greek but showing a particular Macedonian phonology ( e. g. Audunaios has been connected to " Haides " * A-wid and Gorpiaios / Garpiaios to " karpos " fruit ).

Some 16th-and early 17th-century British scholars indeed insisted that-or be used for words from Latin ( e. g. ) and-our for French loans ; but in many cases the etymology was not clear, and therefore some scholars advocated-or only and others-our only.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

The earliest etymology of " Vinland " is found in Adam of Bremen's 11th century Latin Descriptio insularum Aquilonis (" Description of the Northern Islands "): " Moreover, he has also reported one island discovered by many in that ocean, which is called Winland, for the reason that grapevines grow there by themselves, producing the best wine.

" This venerable etymology is at least as old as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who said " And there is no reason that the Greeks should not have called them by this name, both from their living in towers and from the name of one of their rulers.

Although the patterns are inconsistent, when English spelling rules take into account syllable structure, phonetics, etymology and accents, there are dozens of rules that are 75 % or more reliable.

The names Moldavia and Moldova are derived from the name of the Moldova River ; however, the etymology is not known and there are several variants:

As peoples of varying ethnicity and language occupied Campania in the Roman Iron Age, the etymology depends to a large degree on the presumption of what language was spoken there at the time.

In, there is a folk etymology for Seth's name, which derives it from the Hebrew word for " plant " as in " plant a seed " ( syt ).

al-Biruni quotes and criticizes the medieval scientist Hamza al-Isfahani who had stated " asturlab is an arabization of this Persian phrase ": sitara yab meaning " taker of the stars " In medieval Islamic sources there is also a " fictional " and popular etymology of the words as " lines of lab ".

As it turns out, there probably was an association of the word, whatever its etymology, with ancient Crete.

Following Vladimir I. Georgiev, who placed Pelasgian as an Indo-European language " between Albanian and Armenian ", Albert Joris Van Windekens ( 1915 — 1989 ) offered rules for an unattested hypothetical Indo-European Pelasgian language, selecting vocabulary for which there was no Greek etymology among the names of places, heroes, animals, plants, garments, artifacts, social organization.

It was once thought that the root may be derived from Proto-Indo-European " to shine ", but there are difficulties with this etymology and few modern scholars accept it as being possible ( notably because Proto-Indo-European never produced Proto-Celtic ).

The accepted etymology is that the settlement was originally named after Saint Cummein of Iona who built a church there.

In Indian English, there is a folk etymology connecting " I don't give a damn " with the dam, a 16th-century copper coin.

Folk etymology derives its name from a combination of the word " glass " with the word " company " for a glass factory that was built there many years ago, but the presence of many Scottish immigrants to this part of Appalachia, particularly from the Strathclyde region, indicates that the town was most likely named after the Scottish city of Glasgow in Strathclyde.

Indeed there are five villages called Hindenburg running in a straight line from Westphalia to Pomerania, as well as three eastern Spiegelbergs and a trail of etymology from Beverungen south of Hamelin to Beveringen northwest of Berlin to Beweringen in modern Poland.

The objection to this etymology is that there is no derivational process that adds an initial b-to a root.

Its etymology can be traced to the unlicensed nature of the transmission, but historically there has been occasional but notable use of sea vessels – fitting the most common perception of a pirate – as broadcasting bases.

Apart from this, there are two theories for the etymology of the name.

The etymology of the word is unclear, but there are several theories:

There is thus no justification for the folk etymology stating that the Cathedral Town was so called because St Edmund was buried there.

Although there are conflicting accounts of the term's etymology, by 1985, " house music " was synonymous with these homegrown dance music productions.

Although the etymology of his name is uncertain, curiously there was an ancient city named " Buer " ( now Gelsenkirchen ) in Westphalia, Germany.

For example, a person studying the ontological roots of human languages ( etymology ) might ask whether there is kinship between the English word seven and the German word sieben.