Another Semitic etymology compares Assyrian barīrītu, the name of a female demon found in Middle Babylonian and Late Babylonian texts.

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 ".

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 ".

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.

Grimm traces the etymology of the name to * balþaz, whence Gothic balþs, Old English bald, Old High German pald, all meaning " bold, brave ".

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 name Benjamin is a matter of dispute, though most agree that it is composed of two parts-ben and jamin-the former meaning son of.

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.

St. Gregory VII having, indeed, abridged the order of prayers, and having simplified the Liturgy as performed at the Roman Court, this abridgment received the name of Breviary, which was suitable, since, according to the etymology of the word, it was an abridgment.

For the etymology, see Cyrus ( name ).

This account is used to explain the name " Seligenstadt " by folk etymology.

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 ).

One traditional etymology connects it to the name of the Helveconae, a Germanic tribe mentioned in Ancient Greek and Latin sources, but the etymology or language of the tribal name is not known.

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 etymology of the name is disputed ; an alternative name of the dance is stantipes, which suggests that one foot was stationary during the dance ; but the more widely accepted etymology relates it to estamper, to stamp the feet.

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 ".

So it is more plausible that Fosite is the older name and Forseti a folk etymology.

The Cymean historian Ephorus held the same view, and the idea gained support in antiquity on the strength of a false etymology which derived his name from ho mḕ horṓn (: " he who does not see ").

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 ).

Apart from the mythical derivation of Lazio given by the ancients as the place where Jupiter " lay hid " from his father seeking to kill him, a major modern etymology is that Lazio comes from the Latin word " latus ", meaning " wide ", expressing the idea of " flat land " meaning the Roman Campagna.

The etymology of the word comes from the Greek words pan ( a prefix meaning " whole ", " encompassing ") and genesis (" birth ") or genos (" origin ").

The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum " the nightshade plant ", but the further etymology of that word is unclear.

The etymology of sharia as a " path " or " way " comes from the Qur ' anic verse: " Then we put thee on the ( right ) Way of religion so follow thou that ( Way ), and follow not the desires of those who know not.

The etymology is disputed: the Molinari company states that the name Sambuca comes from an Arabic word: Zammut.

The etymology of the word " turmeric " probably comes from the early French " terre merite " via the Latin " terra merita ", literally " deserving earth ".

Evidence for this etymology comes from the OED, which notes the name " shark " first came into use after Sir John Hawkins ' sailors exhibited one in London in 1569 and used the word " sharke " to refer to the large sharks of the Caribbean Sea.

The common name comes from the Ojibwa word maashkinoozhe, meaning " ugly pike ", by way of French masque allongé ( modified from the Ojibwa word by folk etymology ), " elongated face.

The etymology of the term comes from the word battle ( Serbian: бој, boj ); the Boyars of Serbia were literally " men for the battle " or the warrior class, in contrast to the peasants ; they could own land but were obliged to defend it and fight for the king.

But others suggest that this is a folk etymology, and that the word actually comes from a Semitic language.

According to one version, the etymology of its name comes from Latin and its literal meaning is pruning.

It comes from the Latin militaris ( from Latin miles meaning " soldier ") but is of uncertain etymology, one suggestion being derived from * mil-it-- going in a body or mass.

It has been informally suggested in folk etymology that it is a shortened form of the word " pusillanimous ", which comes from Latin words meaning " tiny spirit " and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as " showing a lack of courage or determination " or cowardly.

The etymology of the name probably comes from the coat of arms adopted by the first Blauvelt, Pieter Blauwveld, a prominent trader in the Netherlands.

Glick has suggested that Ṭārif is an invention designed to explain the etymology of Tarifa, the ancient Julia Traducta, of which " Julian " was probably the ( unnamed ) Gothic count ( comes julianus ).

The most commonly cited etymology for this is that it comes from the notion common among nineteenth-century antiquarians, but based on only a single 1500 manuscript, that it was used to fill empty space at the foot of stained-glass windows in medieval churches.

While the last element of the city's name comes from Danish ø which means " island " (), the etymology of the first element is uncertain.

The etymology of the term comes from the m. French word carriere ( 16 c .) (" road, racecourse ") which, in turn, comes from the Latin word "( via ) cararia " ( track for wheeled vehicles ) which originated from the Latin word carrus " which means " wagon ".

The word " varnish " comes from Latin vernix meaning odorous resin, the etymology of which comes from the Greek Berenice, the ancient name of modern Benghazi in Libya, where the first varnishes were used and where resins from the trees of now-vanished forests were sold.

The name Túrin supposedly comes from the speech of the Folk of Hador, with unknown etymology ( see House of Hador ).

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 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 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?

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

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.

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.

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