He set out a fictional etymology for the name in an appendix to Lord of the Rings, to the effect that it was derived from holbytla ( plural holbytlan ), a speculative reconstruction of Old English, meaning “ hole-builder ” ( in the books, Old English stands in for words in the language of the fictional Rohirrim ).

In the city of Paris, the Louvre ( fortified ) and the Luxembourg ( originally suburban ) represented the original château but lost their château etymology, becoming “ palaces ” when the City enclosed them.

Regarding this etymology, linguist Albert Morey Sturtevant comments that “ fluids may result from the crushing or pressing of an object ( cf.

The etymology of Duffel is from dubro and locus, from Gaulish dubrum, * dubron, “ water ”.

In terms of its etymology, eudaimonia is an abstract noun derived from eu meaning “ well ” and daimon ( daemon ), which refers to a minor deity or a guardian spirit.

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

There was at least a root name or the etymology that eventually recognizes that all these varying ethnic groups are of Lango origin …” He adds “ when the British colonialists arrived in 1862, it was only Lango of Uganda and a smaller group in Agoro of Southern Sudan who retain the name Lango as their ethnic name .”

Based on the etymology, two routes have been proposed as the route for the kulintang to Mindanao: One from Sunda, through Banjermasin, Brunei and the Sulu Archipelago, a route where the word “ kulintangan ” is commonly used for the horizontal row of gongs ; The other from Sunda, thru, Timor, Sulawesi, Moluccas and Mindanao where the word kolintang / kulintang is commonly seen.

The etymology of the site's present-day name is unclear, and tentative suggestions regarding its origin range from a presumed corruption of a native Zapotec name such as “ Danibaan ” ( Sacred Hill ) to a colonial-era reference to a Spanish soldier by the name Montalbán or to the Alban Hills of Italy.

The “ place of a skull ” etymology is based on the Hebrew verbal root g-l-l, from which the Hebrew word for skull, ( gulggolet ), is derived.

His name, if a Greek compound, may mean " gift of God ", although other scholars believe its etymology is Semitic and might mean “ flowing with water ”.

Interestingly enough, however, since the 1980s — corresponding to the major political changes in Eastern Europe — some authors have started to change the ethnonym Gagauz into Gagavuz or Gagouz or even Gagoğuz ( the latter despite the fact that the official alphabet does not contain the letter ğ, the “ soft g ” of Turkish ), thus making a statement about both the etymology of the word and the ethnogenesis of this people.

The etymology of this usage is the combination of “ sheet ” and “ meat .”

Its etymology is from Greek θηλή, “ nipple ” and ἀρχή, “ beginning, onset ”.

As for the etymology of the name of Guria, some say that the root of the word refers to restlessness and the word should mean “ the land of the restless ” and may be associated with events during the eighth and ninth centuries when “ Leon became the King of Abkhazeti, Guruls refused to obey the ruler of Odzrakho, ceased their vassal relations with Adarnase and Ashot Bagrationi and united with Leon ” as it was described in Vakhushti Bagrationi ’ s historical works of the eighteenth century.

" Another writer says “ the context and the etymology seem to require the gum of some aromatic plant, perhaps gum-ladanum.

Conder writes that " the root of the Hebrew word means to drop or distil, and shecheleth would seem, therefore, to mean some exudation .” Another writer says that the Hebrew shecheleth identifies with the Syriac shehelta which is translated as “ a tear or distillation ” and that “ the context and the etymology seem to require the gum of some aromatic plant.

Many works of historical fiction write dōtanuki with different characters as 胴田貫 ( roughly “ torso – paddy – penetrate ”), with a folk etymology claiming it ’ s because, when used to cut the torso of a cadaver lying down in a paddy, the sword would pierce right through it and into the field.

In terms of etymology, the cognate, means " telling ", while the Aramaic root אגד ( as well as נגד from which אגדה may arise ) has the dual implication of “ expanding ” / “ drawing out ” and “ binding ” / “ drawing in ”.

“‘ Wu ’ 武 ” is translated as ‘ martial ’ in English, however in terms of etymology, this word has a slightly different meaning.

Because of these, hilltribes in Dagundalahon side renamed “ Kabalangasan ” to Talakag, the etymology of which came from the Visayan dialect-LAKAG meaning " to go after ” or “ follow in pursuit ” and the prefix “ TA ” denoting “ fondness in doing such ”.

Indeed, the Latin word nigellus gave birth to Old French neel ( modern nielle ), meaning “ black enamel ” ( same word as niello ) and it explains the confusion, because the clerics believed it was the same etymology as the first name Neel, spelled the same way.

One fact, presented in Kelley's dissertation, about the etymology of the term in this context: Dr. Kelley did originally have a definition for the “ OZ ” acronym ( aside from the obvious parallels with the 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ).

Those scholars who recognize a difference between the taxonomy of the creature between the two sources have commented on the matter, further issues have been raised about the apparently contradictory etymology of the name of the creature in relation to its apparent status as a boar, and some scholars have theorized that the ritual killing of the animal may ultimately stem from religious practices in Germanic paganism.

The Greek name Sarmatai sometimes appears as " Sauromatai ", apparently through a folk etymology associating them with lizards ( sauros ).

Some apparently unrelated words share a common historical origin, however, so etymology is not an infallible test for polysemy, and dictionary writers also often defer to speakers ' intuitions to judge polysemy in cases where it contradicts etymology.

The name Poti is apparently linked to Phasis, but the etymology is a matter of a scholarly dispute.

Miller ( 1987: 647 ) criticized Benedict for overlooking Old Japanese " worö ' tail ' + suffix-ti — as well as an obvious Tungus etymology, * xürgü-či ' the tailed one '", and notes " this apparently well-traveled orochi has now turned up in the speculation of the folklorists ( Littleton 1981 ).

Its etymology is unknown, apparently a loanword of non-Greek origin.

Further, the etymology of this term has been criticised as being more humorous than accurate or appropriate for the range of words it is apparently meant to include.

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

The most commonly accepted etymology derives it from Latin gradalis or gradale via an earlier form, cratalis, a derivative of crater or cratus which was, in turn, borrowed from Greek krater ( a two-handed shallow cup ).

Modern etymology reconstructs Proto-Germanic * hagatusjon-from haegtesse and hagazussa ; the first element is probably cognate with hedge, which derives from PIE * kagh-" hedge, enclosure ", and the second perhaps from * dhewes-" fly about, be smoke, vanish.

The etymology of the name is contested, according to one view, the name Odysseus derives from the verb (), meaning " to be wroth against ', ' hate ", suggesting that the name could be rendered as " the one who is wrathful / hated ".

According to the traditional etymology the Slavic name derives from the Germanic ethnonym Silingi.

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 English and French word tarot derives from the Italian tarocchi, which has no known origin or etymology.

A particularly fanciful etymology, suggested by James Skene in 1824, derives the word from Baumgericht ( Lit.

An alternative etymology derives the first part from Old English weri ( to wear ); the full form in this case would be glossed as wearer of wolf skin.

According to folk etymology, the area of Warmia is named after the legendary Prussian chief Warmo, whereas the name Ermland derives from his widow Erma.

Its etymology derives from the Old French term, conté or cunté and could denote a jurisdiction in mainland Europe, under the sovereignty of a count ( earl ) or a viscount.

Zíbrt also ironically dismisses the etymology suggested by A. Fähnrich ( in Ein etymologisches Taschenbuch, Jiein, 1846 ) that it derives from the Bohemian word pole, i. e., " field ".

A folk etymology derives the word from the Greek πάν pan-(" all ") and thēr (" beast of prey ") because they can hunt and kill almost everything.

It perhaps derives from Greek anthos ( flower ) and ops ( eye ), perhaps meaning " beautiful eye " or alluding to the animals ' long eyelashes ; however, this may be a later folk etymology.

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 ).

The fact that classical Greek authors often used eponymous explanations to explain away names through folk etymology makes it more likely that Ithakos derives from Ithaca rather than vice versa.

This is a folk etymology, confusing Latin granatus with the name of the Spanish city of Granada, which derives from Arabic.

According to romantic folk etymology, Charing derives from French chère reine ( dear queen ), but the name was certainly used in the contemporary royal accounting records for the costs of constructing the cross.

Another classic etymology derives the name ' Haemos ' from the myth about the fight of Zeus and the dragon Typhon:

Centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Rhomaike Archaiologia ( Antiquitates romanae, " Roman Antiquities "), quoting Antioch of Syracuse states that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and retells this account that Italia was named after him, alongside the other account that Italia derives its name from a word for calf, an etymology also stated by Timaeus, Varro ( Rerum Rusticarum, 2. 5 ), and Festus.

The Welsh redactions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Brut y Brenhinedd, associate him with Ynys Afallach, which is substituted as the Welsh name for Geoffrey's Insula Avalonsis ( Island of Avalon ), but this is fanciful medieval etymology and it is more likely his name derives from the Welsh word afall " apple tree " ( modern Welsh afal " apple ", afalllen " apple tree " cf.

Latham described the etymology of artavus as being dubious, but Johannes Balbus de Janua ( Catholicon, 1497 ) derives it from arto, artas, etc.

An alternate etymology suggested by Prof. Pischel derives Rudra (" the Red, the Brilliant ") from a lost root rud -, " to be red " or " to be ruddy ", or according to Grassman, " to shine ".

Recent studies have shown that Twightwee derives from the Delaware language exonym for the Miamis, tuwéhtuwe, a name of unknown etymology.

Its etymology derives from the Greek nooúmenon ( thought-of ) and ultimately reflects nous ( intuition ).