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:

The etymology of the town name is unclear, but local folklore states that a train crew brought a sign reading " Etowah " from the Etowah River, and the name stuck.

The etymology of name Šabac is uncertain, although its resemblance to the name of the Sava River is suggestive.

A folk etymology derives the name from " Shko-drin " which in Albanian means " where Drin goes ", Drin being the Drin River that connects with the Buna River next to the castle of Rozafa.

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A piece of folk etymology holds that the name derives from the Lowland Scots broch, meaning some form of fortification, with the ' ty ' being a shortening of the name of the River Tay, and Ferry being added later in recognition of the town's role as a ferry port.

Situated on either bank of the eponymous Moskva River, the city during the 16th to 17th centuries grew up in five concentric divisions, formerly separated from one another by walls: the Kremlin (" fortress "), Kitaigorod (" walled town ", but interpreted as " Chinatown " by folk etymology ), Bielygorod (" white town "), Zemlianoigorod ( earthworks town ), and Miestchanskygorod (" bourgeois town ") outside the city walls.

Its river, Drini i Zi ( Albanian: Black River ), was colored red with blood several times, which is a possible etymology for the name.

This etymology might have been related to the Third River, which also flows through Bloomfield ( though not through Watsessing Park ), and which forms an abrupt elbow near the town's center.

* For the etymology of " Matanzas " see Matanzas River.

The popular etymology of the town's name derives it from the River Penk, which flows through it.

Concerning the etymology of Wiyot ( Wishosk ), Lyle Campbell writes, " Wiyot is from wíyat, the native name for the Eel River delta, which also referred to one of the three principal groups of Wiyots ( Elsasser 1978: 162 ).

The commonly proposed etymology of the names of the Danube River, Dnieper River, Dniester River, Donets River and Don River

Although this etymology is not accurate, it is likely that the city was considered untenable as a residence by the Romans for its instability, being built on alluvial soil and frequently threatened by flooding of the Guadalquivir River.

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.

Young men celebrated their coming of age ; they cut off and dedicated their first beards to their household Lares and if citizens, wore their first toga virilis, the " manly " toga – which Ovid, perhaps by way of poetic etymology, calls a toga libera ( Liber's toga or " toga of freedom ").

Some sources give the etymology as coming from the Nahuatl words cuitla (" excrement " or " rear-end ") and cochtli (" sleeping ", from cochi =" to sleep "), thus giving a combined meaning of " sleeping / hibernating excrement ".

" Bretton " etymology is coming from Breton, Brittany, the people at the west of France and one of the six Celtic nations.

The related abstract noun – banausia is defined by Hesychius as " every craft () by means of fire ", reflecting the folk etymology of the word as coming from ( baunos ) " furnace " and ( auō ) " to dry ".

Pliny the Elder provides a slightly different etymology of Astaboras, stating that " in the language of the local people " the name means " water coming from the shades below " ( N. H. 5. 10 ).

The etymology of Silla is not known for sure where it is coming from.

Isidore of Seville, gave an etymology as coming from a river Asturia, identified by David Magie with the Órbigo in the plain of León, by others the modern Esla.

Dictionaries explain the etymology as coming from Old French tendre, which means " to offer ".

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.

Several instances of popular etymology are attested from ancient authors.

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.

Adams ( 1997 ) have also proposed an etymology based on the connection with the Indo-European dawn goddess, from " very " and " to shine ".

The current spelling, amaranth, seems to have come from folk etymology that assumed the final syllable derived from the Greek word anthos (" flower "), common in botanical names.

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 ).

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 '.

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.

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

It is also possible that the name Axeinos arose by popular etymology from a Scythian Iranic axšaina-' unlit ,' ' dark '; the designation " Black Sea " may thus date from Antiquity.

* The etymology of the term " blade runner " is revealed to come from the German phrase bleib ruhig, meaning " remain calm.

A more recent etymology by Xavier Delamarre would derive it from a Common Celtic * Beltinijā, cognate with the name of the Lithuanian goddess of death Giltinė, the root of both being Proto-Indo-European * gʷelH-" suffering, death ".

The etymology of the word " plague " is believed to come from the Latin word plāga (" blow, wound ") and plangere (“ to strike, or to strike down ”), cf.

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.

One etymology is PIE " inhabitant ", from " home " (> Eng.

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.

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 '.

The etymology from ken – tauros, " piercing bull-stickers " was a Euhemerist suggestion in Palaephatus ' rationalizing text on Greek mythology, On Incredible Tales ( Περὶ ἀπίστων ): mounted archers from a village called Nephele eliminating a herd of bulls that were the scourge of Ixion's kingdom.

An alternative, Proto-Indo-European etymology comes through Potnia and Despoina ; where Des-represents a derivative of PIE * dem ( house, dome ), and Demeter is " mother of the house " ( from PIE * dems-méh₂tēr ).

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