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

Another theory occasionally encountered is a derivation from the phrase thog mi an èigh / eugh () " I raised the cry ", which in pronunciation bears a certain resemblance to Hogmanay, as part of the rhymes traditionally recited at New Year but it is unclear if this is simply a case of folk etymology.

The etymology of Tusci is based on a beneficiary phrase in the third Iguvine tablet, which is a major source for the Umbrian language.

Josephus records the false etymology that the Greek phrase Hyksos stood for the Egyptian phrase Hekw Shasu meaning the Shepherd Kings, which scholars have only recently shown means " rulers of foreign lands.

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 ".

Josephus records the earliest account of the false but understandable etymology that the Greek phrase Hyksos stood for the Egyptian phrase Hekw Shasu meaning the Bedouin-like Shepherd Kings, which scholars have only recently shown means " rulers of foreign lands.

Such dialects often contain folk-etymological derivatives of French words, for example lavier (" river, stream ") which is a syncopated variant of the standard French phrase la rivière (" the river ") but has been identified by folk etymology with laver, " to wash "; therefore lavier is interpreted to mean " a place to wash " ( since such streams are often used for washing laundry ).

A West African ( Mande and / or Bantu ) etymology has been argued in scholarly sources, tracing the word back to the Wolof and Bantu word waw-kay or the Mande ( aka " Mandinke " or " Mandingo ") phrase o ke.

Some of them are thought to fall into the category of folk etymology and are proposed based merely on apparent similarity between " okay " and one or another phrase in a foreign language with a similar meaning and sound.

Etymologist W. W. Skeat reports that, while folklore has long attributed mystical powers to a dead man's hand, the specific phrase " hand of glory " is in fact a folk etymology: it derives from the French " main de gloire ", a corruption of mandragore, which is to say mandrake.

The official etymology from the 1930s says the name comes from the Tagalog phrase " May lakán diyán ", (" There is a nobleman there "), as it was originally the home of a wealthy Spanish merchant.

The etymology of the phrase originates in the Classical Greek concept of a fundamental and indivisible component ; see atom.

Plato, in his dialogue Cratylus, offers a speculative etymology of Athena's name connecting it to the phrase ἁ θεονόα or hē theoû nóēsis ( ἡ θεοῦ νόησις, ' the mind of god ').

However, without any substantiated use of the phrase prior to the 1970s, this may well be a folk etymology.

However, others maintain that the term is derived from the Latin quatuor tempora, meaning " four times " ( a year ), while folk etymology even cites the phrase " may ye remember ( the inevitability of death )" as the source.

A popular folk etymology claims that it is a contraction of " laget om " (" around the team "), a phrase used in Viking times to specify how much mead one should drink from the horn as it was passed around in order for everyone to receive a fair share.

A common folk etymology attributes its name to the mixed Portuguese and Tupi phrase morro obi, which would mean " green hill ", but this is disputed.

It should be noted, however, that Rhyming Slang can be traced only as early as the 1840s, whereas the phrase " green room " predates this by several centuries, making such an etymology unlikely.

This supposed system inspired a fake or folk etymology of the phrase " double cross.

Folk etymology is change in a word or phrase over time resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one.

Reviewing the name " Philippine " strictly on its etymology, it is derived from the Greek phrase Φίλος Ίππος Νησί Fílos Íppos Ni ̱ sí meaning " Island of the Horse Friend ", nevertheless has nothing to do with the name of the town.

" Hagar eventually backed away from the outright vulgarity after he was told by his friend, former world lightweight boxing champion Ray " Boom Boom " Mancini, that the word " fuck " was an acronym for the phrase " for unlawful carnal knowledge " ( though this is a false etymology ).

On a different take on the etymology, κομπολόι is short for the phrase σε κάθε κόμπο προσευχή λέω, " in every knot I say a prayer "- κόμπο " knot "- λέω " say " > κόμπο-λέω > κομπολόι.

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.

The etymology of Greek is unknown.

Another non-Greek etymology suggested by M. Hammarström, looks to Etruscan, comparing ( e ) pruni " lord ", an Etruscan honorific loaned into Greek as πρύτανις.

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 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.

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 ".

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 '.

Ancient Greek writers linked Artemis ( Doric Artamis ) by way of folk etymology to artemes ( ἀρτεμής ) ‘ safe ’ or artamos ( ἄρταμος ) ‘ butcher ’.

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.

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.

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

Its etymology stems from the prefix exo ( derived from the Greek word ἔξω, exō, " outside ") and the Greek word thermasi ( meaning " to heat ").

rheology ) is the Greek word for " to stream, and to the etymology of Rhea according to Plato's Cratylus.

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 ).

In Greek mythology, Leto ( Greek:, Latō in Dorian Greek, etymology and meaning disputed ) is a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe and the sister of Asteria.

To evaluate the etymology of words, Webster learned twenty-six languages, including Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ), German, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Arabic, and Sanskrit.

While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the New Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard ( Lorhardus ) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel ( Goclenius ); see classical compounds for this type of word formation.

The etymology of the Greek term is often given as oros " mountain " + the verb ganousthai " delight in ", but the Oxford English Dictionary notes it is quite likely a loanword from an unknown North African language.