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.

The village is said to take its name from the " Bold Venture " that it must have appeared to build a farm in this moorland, but this is probably folk etymology, as " Bol -" is a common prefix in Cornish placenames.

The theory that the word originated as an acronym from the names of the group of ministers is a folk etymology, although the coincidence was noted at the time and could possibly have popularized its use.

The term derives its etymology from the Daedalus Labyrinth or " complicated maze ".

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

The etymology of Rus and its derivatives are debated, and other schools of thought connect the name with Slavic or Iranic roots.

The possible confusion results from " ì ", despite its original etymology, becoming a Gaelic noun ( now obsolete ) meaning simply " island ".

Since lexicology studies the meaning of words and their semantic relations, it often explores the origin and history of a word, i. e. its etymology.

An Arabic language word, its etymology, like that of Mecca, is obscure.

The post-classical Latin paganismus gave rise to both paganism and to its synonym paynimry .< ref > OED etymology for paynim: < Anglo-Norman paenisme, painisme, paienime, painnim, peinibvgnb, bjkbyh ikbh

As its etymology would suggest, its usage is relatively recent and as such its definition is not entirely settled.

The formal study of semantics intersects with many other fields of inquiry, including lexicology, syntax, pragmatics, etymology and others, although semantics is a well-defined field in its own right, often with synthetic properties.

The Online Etymological Dictionary defines taco as a " tortilla filled with spiced meat " and describes its etymology as derived from Mexican Spanish, " light lunch ," literally, " plug, wadding.

This, in turn, derives from " Lupi spuma ", the name Georg Agricola used for the element in 1546, which translates into English as " wolf's froth " or " cream " ( the etymology is not entirely certain ), and is a reference to the large amounts of tin consumed by the mineral during its extraction.

The name is spelled as t-o-ň-uq-uq () in the Old Turkic script, variously interpreted as Tunuquq, Tonuquq, Tuj-uquq, Tony Yuguq, Tujun-oq, Tojuquq, with a number of suggestions for its etymology.

The etymology of vinyl is the Latin vinum = " wine ", because of its relationship with alcohol ( in its original sense of ethyl alcohol ).

Folk etymology has attributed its origin to the words for true () and image ().

It most likely reached its present form through a combination of the Spanish tronada and tornar (" to turn "); however, this may be a folk etymology.

Food scholar Terence Scully has proposed the alternative etymology of bland mangier, " bland dish ", reflecting its often mild and " dainty " ( in this context meaning refined and aristocratic ) taste and popularity as a sick dish.

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 ".

While it is frequently thought that he was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual inventor .< ref >

The origin of the name Stirling is uncertain, but folk etymology suggests that it originates in either a Scots or Gaelic term meaning the place of battle, struggle or strife.

The item llanw is reconstructed in Proto-Celtic as * φlanwo-‘ flood, filling .’ This * φlanwo-may plausibly have had a reduced form * φlanu-‘ flood .’ This etymology is echoed in the following Gaelic ( Irish ) words:

This is inferred from the etymology of the name, which, according to one theory, is resolvable into two Gaelic terms signifying a castle or fort in the copse or brushwood.

A Gaelic etymology is also possible, with I-fheirste meaning " Crossings-island " or " Fords-island ", derived from I meaning " island " and fearsad meaning " estuary, sand-bank, passage across at ebb-tide ".

* A fanciful etymology was given for the name " Oberon " by Charles Mackay in his book The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe along with many other theories on words found in the English language that have not found mainstream acceptance.

The etymology is variously debated as " Great Steward " ( incorporating Gaelic and Picto-Latin ), or " Sea Lord " ( perhaps defenders against Vikings ).

These include Dundee from the Gaelic Dùn Deagh, Inverness from Inbhir Nis, Argyll from Earra-Ghàidheal, Galloway from Gall-Ghaidhealaibh and possibly Stirling from Sruighlea ( though the etymology is uncertain, see article ).

The Gaelic etymology of the name is not clear.

The etymology of the name has been traced to both the Norse Goðrmaðray meaning " warrior priest's island " and the Gaelic Gu mòr traigh meaning " only at low tide ", but the latter is an example of folk etymology.

Similar names have also been anglicized as Kenneth, including the Gaelic Coinneach (" Handsome or Sexy one "; e. g. Cainnech of Aghaboe ) and the Old English Cyneath may mean " royal oath ", used as a non-Celtic alternative etymology.

One exception is ptarmigan, which is from a Gaelic word, the p having been added by false etymology.

An alternative etymology is that shack derives from teach, pronounced chaċ, meaning " house " in Irish Gaelic, which was absorbed into American English from the 1880s onwards.

Local tradition has it that the island takes its name from the young herring, or " garvies " which sheltered in large shoals around its shores-this is however folk etymology as the first element is Gaelic.

According to Paul L. Younger of Newcastle University, the etymology of the name is probably Gaelic.

A semantically similar etymology exists for nectar, the beverage of the gods ( Greek: νέκταρ, néktar ) presumed to be a compound of the PIE roots * nek -, " death ", and -* tar, " overcoming ".

The term " adiabatic " literally means impassable, coming from the Greek roots ἀ-(" not "), διὰ-(" through "), and βαῖνειν (" to pass "); this etymology corresponds here to an absence of heat transfer.

The Halloween holiday is commonly thought to have pagan roots, even though the etymology of the word is Christian.

The term's ultimate etymology is uncertain, perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European roots * tri-(" three ") and * bhew-(" to be ").

If the name has an Indo-European etymology, it is possibly a suffixed form of a root * wel-" to turn, roll ", or of * sel-" to flow, run ".< ref > The American Heritage Dictionary, " Indo-European roots: wel < sup > ₂ </ sup >"</ ref > The latter possibility would allow comparison to the Vedic Sanskrit Saraṇyū, a character who is abducted in Rigveda 10. 17. 2.

The Greeks invented etymologies to associate it with Greek word roots ( one such popular etymology translates the name as " he who washes away care ").

The Old Irish name Óengus is attested in Adomnán's Life of St. Columba as Oinogus ( s ) ius, showing that its etymology is from the Proto-Celtic roots * oino-" one " and * guss-" choice ".

The word tamoanchan does not actually come from the Nahuatl languages, but is instead demonstrated to have its roots in Mayan etymology, with a meaning which could be glossed as " place of the misty sky ", or similar.

Linguist Paul Wexler has proposed yet another etymology, tracing kobold to the roots koben (" pigsty ") and hold (" stall spirit ").

Both terms share their roots in the Classical Latin centenarius, meaning hundredlike, but the quintal has a convoluted etymology: It became Late Latin centenarium pondus, then in succession, Late Greek, κεντηνάριον ( kentenarion ), Arabic, qintar.

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.

Asia is from the Greek language, but its etymology goes further into its roots in the Afro-Asiatic languages, which includes Akkadian and Phoenician, some of the earliest known languages.

Including place-names and river-names, and most of the forms labelled as being of unknown etymology, the number of the substratum elements in Eastern Romance may surpass 500 basic roots.

The original etymology of this name is thought to have its roots in the ancient Zoroastrianism, namely, in Avestan Frawardin Yasht (" Hymn to the Guardian Angels "), there is a mentioning of: âterepâtahe ashaonô fravashîm ýazamaide, which literally translates from Old Persian as " we worship the Fravashi of the holy Atare-pata ".

Although spellings with the ' u ' are more common in modern German, etymology implies that the ' u ' spelling has Icelandic ( North Germanic ) roots, whereas the ' o ' spelling has English and German ( West Germanic ) roots.

Pliny and Theophrastus give the dubious etymology of Latin sūs " pig " and Greek rhynchos " nose ", referring to pigs grubbing the roots.

However, there are still many unclear points about the origin of tragedy, from the etymology of the word tragus ( s ) día (): stand in it the roots of " goat " ( / Tragos ) and " sing " ( / á ( i ) dô ), would be the " song for the goat.

For an alternative etymology from Persian via Arabic and ultimately Greek, rather than Latin roots, refer entry under Kameez.

Beyond simple etymology, both spoken and written Hebrew is marked by peculiar linguistic elements that distinguish its semitic roots.

Constantine Zuckerman suggests a more obvious etymology, from the Turkic ( Khazar ) roots " sam "+" bat " ( literally, " upper fortress ").

Allegro believed he could prove through etymology that the roots of Christianity, as of many other religions, lay in fertility cults ; and that cultic practices, such as ingesting hallucinogenic drugs to perceive the Mind of God, persisted into Christian times.

The etymology is disputed between two possible Greek roots ' ergasterios ' ( workshop ) and ' ergastylos ' ( pillar to which slaves were tethered ).