The origin of this sayin' was credited to a saloonkeeper by the name of Luke Murrin.

`` Such a vicious statement can only have its origin in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known by condemning a man of world stature.

The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.

The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means " earth pig " or " ground pig " ( aarde earth / ground, varken pig ), because of its burrowing habits ( similar origin to the name groundhog ).

Various theories exist regarding the origin of the name itself.

In the absence of other evidence to show the origin of these curious relics of antiquity the occurrence of a name known as Basilidian on patristic authority has not unnaturally been taken as a sufficient mark of origin, and the early collectors and critics assumed this whole group to be the work of Gnostics.

Another monument near Jerusalem ( not the modern " Absalom Tomb "-" Yad Avshalom " which is of later origin ) was erected by Absalom in his lifetime to perpetuate his name ():

A cadastral survey seems also to have been instituted, and one of the documents relating to it states that a certain Uru-Malik, whose name appears to indicate his Canaanite origin, was governor of the land of the Amorites, or Amurru as the semi-nomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian.

Little is known of Andreas Capellanus's life, but he is presumed to have been a courtier of Marie of Troyes, and probably of French origin ; he is sometimes known by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain.

There are various accounts concerning the origin of the settlement's name ; one states that Allen and Rumsey decided to name it for their wives, both named Ann, and for the stands of burr oak in the of land they purchased for $ 800 from the federal government at $ 1. 25 per acre.

The name, origin, birth date, and occupation were released by the FBI, but the picture was not of him.

There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.

The origin of the name is a mystery but is believed to be aboriginal.

* Anemoi, for the ancient origin of the name of this technology

The name Accrington appears to be Anglo-Saxon in origin.

The origin of the latter name is speculative.

The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl -/ birl-(" swamp ").

There are several theories concerning the origin of the name banjo.

It is the most widely copied Old English poem, and appears in 45 manuscripts, but its attribution to Bede is not absolutely certain — not all manuscripts name Bede as the author, and the ones that do are of later origin than those that do not.

The origin of the tribal name is uncertain.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

It must be presented by means of non-traditional characteristics, you see … one might say that the origin of this music is also found in the interest in ‘ plastifying ’ music, of rendering it plastic like sculpture … musique concrète, in my opinion … led to a manner of composing, indeed, a new mental framework of composing " ( James 1981, 79 ).

‘ On the origin and development of the college in Islam and the West ’, in Islam and the Medieval West, ed.

In a letter of 1541 the Nuremberg maker Georg Stengel ‘ genannt Neuschel ’ referred to ‘ welsche krumme Zincken ’ ( see Eitner, 1877 ), as if the curved form were considered French or Italian in origin.

Eric's soubriquet blóðøx ‘ Bloodaxe ’ or ' Bloody-axe ' is of uncertain origin and context.

The name tupelo, one of the common names used for Nyssa, is of Native American origin, coming from the Creek words ito ‘ tree ’ and opilwa ‘ swamp ’; it was in use by the mid-18th century

Proto-Celtic * Lugus may be related to the root of the Proto-Celtic * lug-rā ‘ moon ’ ( the origin of Welsh lloer, though Peter Schrijver suggests an alternative etymology for lloer, from Common Celtic * lus-rā, where the root would be cognate with that of Latin luridus * lus-idus " pale yellow ").

According to Koch, the name Arawn may be derived from the Biblical name Aaron, the name of Moses ’ s brother, and so is ultimately of Hebrew origin and meaning ‘ exalted .’ That the name ‘ Aaron ’ had currency in Wales as early as Roman times is shown by Gildas who wrote that ‘ Aaron and Iulianus were Christian martyrs at Urbs Legionis ( the ‘ city of the legion ,’ probably Caerllion-ar-Wysg ) in the time of the Emperor Diocletian .’ a cleric of the Old Welsh name Araun witnessed two charters of 860 preserved in the book of Llandaf.

It is at least possible, therefore, that in its origin Savitr was not an independent creation, but was an epithet of Surya, but that question is of little importance: the essential feature of the god is not his original basis, but his function as the inspirer or impeller to holy sacrifice: the ritual act is repeatedly said in the Yajurveda to be done ‘ on the instigation of the god Savitr ’.”

Charles Fillmore and Beryl Atkins ’ definition stipulates three elements: ( i ) the various senses of a polysemous word have a central origin, ( ii ) the links between these senses form a network, and ( iii ) understanding the ‘ inner ’ one contributes to understanding of the ‘ outer ’ one.

The species ' common name tupelo is of Native American origin, coming from the Creek words ito ‘ tree ’ and opilwa ‘ swamp ’; it was in use by the mid-18th century

Prescott is of English origin ; habitational name from any of the places so called, in southwestern Lancashire ( now Merseyside ), Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old English preost ‘ priest ’ + cot ‘ cottage ’, ‘ dwelling ’.

The name, Old English in origin, signifies woodland, which still applies today: scattered farms and villages betray the Weald ‘ s past, often in their names.

They were eventually placed under military jurisdiction but were less centralised than the Spanish police force ( then known as the ' Intendencia General de Policía ') formed in 1817, or the yet to be established ‘ Guardia Civil ’, both of which were systematically deployed away from their regions of origin, and were thus strangers.

The name ‘ Ormskirk ’ is Old Norse in origin and is derived from Ormres kirkja, from a personal name, Ormr ( which means " serpent " or dragon ), and the Old Norse word for church.

Michael Romeo about the origin of their name: " So, you know, the music we were coming up with had the keyboard thing and the guitar, and some classical elements, so the word ‘ Symphony ’ came up and, so the dramatic thing, you know?

Schuster ‘ s father's family is of Carpathian German origin, while his mother's family is of Hungarian origin.

The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean, and soon became accepted generally in all languages as the designation of the head of a monastery.

Currently, the word " Bohemians " is sometimes used when speaking about persons from Bohemia of non-Czech or mixed ethnic origin, especially before the year 1918, when the Kingdom of Bohemia ceased to exist ; also when there is need to distinguish between inhabitants of the western part ( Bohemia proper ) of Czechia, and the eastern ( Moravia ) or the north-eastern part ( Silesia ).

The pattern of distribution of these stories suggest they have a common origin in the eastern Asiatic coastal region, spreading as peoples migrated west into Siberia and east to the North American continent.

A number of Hungarian anthropologists and linguists have long had an interest in the Turkic peoples, fueled by the eastern origin of the Hungarians ' ancestors.

As the fossil record for the Cryptobranchidae shows an Asian origin for the family, the story of how these salamanders made it to the eastern U. S. has been a point of scientific interest.

The term " traditional " ( masorti ) is most common as a self-description among Israeli families of " eastern " origin ( i. e., the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa ).

Primarily they were Vikings of Scandinavian origin, who ventured along the waterways extending from the eastern Baltic to the Black and Caspian Seas.

Mitochondrial DNA extracted from eastern North American wolves killed in the 1800s is not of gray wolf origin.

The ancestors of Ruhollah Khomeini migrated from their original home in Nishapur, north eastern Iran, to the kingdom of Awadh, whose rulers were Twelver Shia Muslims of Persian origin.

In the Kanchenjunga region of eastern Nepal, the Limbus know red pandas as kaala, which literally means dark because of their underside pelage ; villagers of Tibetan origin call them hoptongar.

Most of Tajikistan's lakes are of glacial origin and are located in the Pamir region in the eastern half of the country.

Nevertheless, most books of Ketuvim ( with the exceptions of Daniel and Ezra-Nehemiah, which both contain Aramaic portions ) have targumim, whose origin is mostly western ( Land of Israel ) rather than eastern ( Babylonia ).

Yet, many place names and some family names in eastern Germany still are of Wendish origin today.

The centre of origin is the eastern part of peninsular India, including the state of Orissa, where the closest wild relatives ( Mansi ) occur in tropical deciduous woodlands.

Beginning from the Atlantic Ocean, the state's eastern border with South Carolina runs up the Savannah River, northwest to its origin at the confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers.

Current anthropological thinking places their origin in tropical eastern Polynesia, mostly likely from the Southern Cook or Society Islands region, and that they arrived by deliberate voyages in seagoing canoes – possibly double-hulled and probably sail-rigged.

Many eastern and midwestern U. S. states have names of Algonquian origin ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, etc.

Sakestan was not the only province of Scythian origin on the eastern margin of the Persian Empire.

The Acadia region to which modern Cajuns trace their origin consisted largely of what are now Nova Scotia and the other Maritime provinces, plus parts of eastern Quebec and northern Maine.

( Donald Redford, while not disputing the location of Goshen, gives a different origin for the name, deriving it from " Gasmu ," the rulers of the Bedouin Qedarites who occupied the eastern Delta from the 7th century BC, but John Van Seters thinks this unlikely ).

Around 25 % percent inhabit the eastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the Islamic Republic of Iran, about 35 to 40 % Pakistani Sindhis are of Baloch origin and are settled in Sindh and also a significant number of Baloch people in South Punjab of Pakistan.

Because of this eastern origin, the earlier IMOs were hosted only in eastern European countries, and gradually spread to other nations.

In its relatively southern origin proposals, this autosomal study was considered by the authors to be broadly consistent with a previous mitochondrial DNA studies, including one by some of the same authors which associated the origins of mitochondrial haplogroups L0 and L1 with " click languages " in southern and eastern Africa.

On the eastern side of the county, it is mostly characterized by large buttes of much older volcanic origin.