The 1989 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary dates the word puzzle ( as a verb ) to the end of the 16th century.

The word pogrom originally derives from the Russian verb громи ́ ть (), meaning " to destroy, to wreak havoc, to demolish violently ," and its " international currency dates back to the anti-Semitic excesses in Tsarist Russia during the years 1881-1883.

The color pink may be named after the flower, coming from the frilled edge of the flowers: the verb " pink " dates from the 14th century and means " to decorate with a perforated or punched pattern " ( maybe from German " picken " = to peck ).

However, this is probably false, as Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary dates the verb to lobby to 1837.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

Levant is derived from the French verb lever meaning " to rise " indicating that part of the world where the sun rises.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

The word " acoustic " is derived from the Greek word ακουστικός ( akoustikos ), meaning " of or for hearing, ready to hear " and that from ἀκουστός ( akoustos ), " heard, audible ", which in turn derives from the verb ἀκούω ( akouo ), " I hear ".

Etymologically, the name is derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ), meaning " defending men " or " protector of men ", a compound of the verb " ἀλέξω " ( alexō ), " to ward off, to avert, to defend " and the noun " ἀνδρός " ( andros ), genitive of " ἀνήρ " ( anēr ), " man ".

It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym * ha-mazan -, " warriors ", a word attested as a denominal verb ( formed with the Indo-Iranian root kar-" make " also in kar-ma ) in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss (" hamazakaran: ' to make war ' ( Persian )").

# " violent windstorm ", from the verb ' αïσσω ( stem ' αïγ -) = " I rush or move violently ".

The word may be a compound containing the Old English adjective brytten ( from the verb breotan meaning ' to break ' or ' to disperse '), an element also found in the terms bryten rice (' kingdom '), bryten-grund (' the wide expanse of the earth ') and bryten cyning (' king whose authority was widely extended ').

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

The auxiliary verb function derives from the copular function ; and, depending on one's point of view, one can still interpret the verb as a copula and the following verbal form as being adjectival.

The verbal noun curling is formed from the Scots ( and English ) verb curl, which describes the motion of the stone.

Some developed a gangster-like slang for the verb to kill in an attempt to distance themselves from the killings, such as ' shooting partridges ', of ' sealing ' a victim, or giving him a natsokal ( onomatopoeia of the trigger action ).

Multiple clitics can be stacked up, and will split a preverb from the rest of the verb if the preverb comes at the beginning of the clause, e. g. diz-uh-þan-sat ijōs " and then he seized them ( fem.

However, confusion often stems from the fact that plural verb forms are often used in British English with the singular forms of these count nouns ( for example: " The team have finished the project .").

" The word " mathematics " may have originally been plural in concept, referring to mathematic endeavors, but metonymic shift — that is, the shift in concept from " the endeavors " to " the whole set of endeavors "— produced the usage of " mathematics " as a singular entity taking singular verb forms.

* Grammatical conjugation, the modification of a verb from its basic form

The name " Hanukkah " derives from the Hebrew verb "", meaning " to dedicate ".

The term " clipper " most likely derives from the verb " clip ", which in former times meant, among other things, to run or fly swiftly.

Python ( derived from the verb pythein, " to rot ") is claimed by some to be the original name of the site in recognition of the Python that Apollo defeated.

" Dative " comes from Latin cāsus datīvus, meaning " case for giving ", a translation of Greek " inflection for giving ", from its use with the verb didónai " to give ".

* The symbol for " to want " contains the heart which symbolizes feeling and the verb indicator at the top.

* In Iliad 9. 165-93 three characters, Phoinix, Odysseus, and Aias set out on an embassy to Achilleus ; however, at line 182 the poet uses a verb in the dual form to indicate that there are only two people going ; at lines 185ff.

verbs in the plural form are used, indicating more than two ; but another dual verb appears at line 192 (" the two of them came forward ").

While teaching at the University of Florida, Alfred Korzybski counseled his students to eliminate the infinitive and verb forms of " to be " from their vocabulary, whereas a second group continued to use " I am ," " You are ," " They are " statements as usual.

The term tense is therefore at times used in language descriptions to represent any combination of tense proper, aspect, and mood, as many languages include more than one such reference in portmanteau TAM ( tense – aspect – mood ) affixes or verb forms.

Other verbs ( such as ' look at ', ' wash the dishes ', ' yell ', ' flirt ') are inflected into the unrealized inceptive aspect similarly: the hands used in the base sign move in an arc from in front of the trunk to the initial posture of the underlying verb sign while inhaling, dropping the jaw, and directing eye gaze toward the verb's object ( if any ), but subsequent movements and postures are dropped as the posture and breath are held.

The word geyser comes from Geysir, the name of an erupting spring at Haukadalur, Iceland ; that name, in turn, comes from the Icelandic verb geysa, " to gush ", the verb itself from Old Norse.

Hoosier at times can also be used as a verb describing the act of tricking or swindling someone.

For example, " book " can be a noun (" the book on the table ") or verb (" to book a flight "); " set " can be a noun, verb or adjective ; and " out " can be any of at least five different parts of speech.

Having said this, Campidanese in contrast at times shows more archaic features than Logudorese, particularly in its verb forms, such as the retention of the 3rd person plural in-nt (), reduced to-n () in Logudorese.

In Spanish-speaking countries, squatters receive several names, such as okupas in Spain, Chile or Argentina ( from the verb ocupar meaning " to occupy "), or paracaidistas in Mexico ( meaning " paratroopers ", because they " parachute " themselves at unoccupied land ).

Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used " blog " as both a noun and verb (" to blog ," meaning " to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog ") and devised the term " blogger " in connection with Pyra Labs ' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.

In fact, the verb to court originally meant " to be or reside at court ", and later came to mean " to behave as a courtier " and then " to pay amorous attention to somebody ".

The word is likely derived from Old English, having the nouns scite ( dung, attested only in place names ) and scitte ( diarrhoea ), and the verb scītan ( to defecate, attested only in bescītan, to cover with excrement ); eventually it morphed into Middle English schītte ( excrement ), schyt ( diarrhoea ) and shiten ( to defecate ), and it is virtually certain that it was used in some form by preliterate Germanic tribes at the time of the Roman Empire.

As the Uralic languages don't possess the verb " to have ", it is the subject in the adessive case + on ( for example, minulla on, " I have ", literally " at me is ").

Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb —" to dozen "— dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning " to stun, stupefy, daze " or " to make insensible, torpid, powerless ".

The Hebrew noun hatta ' at " sin " comes from the verb hata ' ( ח ָ ט ָ א ) " to sin.

of pārûsh, meaning “ set apart ”, Qal passive participle of the verb pārāsh, through Greek ,-pharisaios ) were at various times a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews during the Second Temple period beginning under the Hasmonean dynasty ( 140 – 37 BCE ) in the wake of the Maccabean Revolt.

Northwest Caucasian languages have rather simple noun systems, manifesting only a handful of cases at the most, coupled with highly agglutinative verbal systems so complex that virtually the entire syntactic structure of the sentence is contained within the verb.

All Northwest Caucasian languages are left-branching, so that the verb comes at the end of the sentence and modifiers such as relative clauses precede a noun.