is the Japanese word for the spirits, natural forces, or essence in the Shinto faith.

Although the word is sometimes translated as " god " or " deity ", some Shinto scholars argue that such a translation can cause a misunderstanding of the term.

Here too, each word in the kuji was associated with Buddhist deities, animals from Taoist mythology, and later, Shinto kami.

First, the idea of sakaki is expressed with a melding of boku or ki 木 ' tree ' and shin or kami 神 ' god ; divine, sacred ' Shinto 神道 ; comparable to a graphic fusion of the word shinboku 神木 ' sacred tree.

Junrei ( 巡礼 ) is the word most commonly used for either of two major types of pilgrimages in Japan, in accordance with Buddhism or Shinto.

Although only one word (" shrine ") is used in English, in Japanese Shinto shrines may carry any one of many different, non-equivalent names like gongen ,-gū, jinja, jingū, mori, myōjin ,-sha, taisha, ubusuna or yashiro.

* Various forms of animism, such as Japan's Shinto and African traditional religion, focus on invisible beings that represent or connect with plants, animals ( sometimes called " Animal Fathers )", or landforms ( kami ): translators usually employ the English word " spirit " when trying to express the idea of such entities.

There is no such word as Shintoist-a believer in Shinto is called Shinto.

They bear various pictures, often of animals or other Shinto imagery, and many have the word gan ' i ( 願意 ), meaning " wish ", written along the side.

The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

However, the connection that has derived ambrosia from the Greek prefix a-(" not ") and the word brotos (" mortal "), hence the food or drink of the immortals, has been questioned as coincidental by some modern linguists.

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.

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 )").

The word amputation is derived from the Latin amputare, " to cut away ", from ambi-(" about ", " around ") and putare (" to prune ").

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

Black supplanted the wonted Old English word sweart (" black, dark "), which survives as swart, swarth, and swarthy ( compare German schwarz and Dutch zwart, " black ").

This thesis is supported by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, explaining that the Turko-Mongol name Timur underwent a similar evolution, from the Sanskrit word cimara (" iron ") via a modified version * čimr to the final Turkicized version timür, with-ür replacing-r due to the Turkish vowel harmony ( hence babr → babür ).

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.

Another example is the word (" study, learn ").

The word " Mexico " as spoken in its original Nahuatl, and by the Spaniards at the time of the conquest, was pronounced originally with a " sh " sound (" Mesh-ee-co "), as opposed to current pronunciation, and was transcribed with an " x " as was the usage in Spanish at the time.

The word " casuistry " derives from the Latin casus (" case ").

While folk etymology identifies it with " cape ", other suggestions suggest it to be connected to the Latin word caput (" head "), and thus explain it as meaning " chief " or " big head ".

For example, the word chief ( meaning the leader of any group ) comes from the Middle French chef (" head "), and its modern pronunciation preserves the Middle French consonant sound ; the word chef ( the leader of the cooks ) was borrowed from the same source centuries later, by which time the consonant had changed to a " sh "- sound in French.

When the Arabic text was translated into Latin, the translator Gerard of Cremona ( probably in Spain ) mistook the Arabic word كلاب for kilāb ( the plural of كلب kalb ), meaning " dogs ", writing hastile habens canes (" spearshaft having dogs ").

Is (" as well ") and se (" not ... either ") also function as clitics: although written separately, they are pronounced together with the preceding word, without stress: Ő is jön.

* Great White Way Historical citations from word researcher Barry Popik.

The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias (), literally " milky ", a reference to the Milky Way galaxy.

In the astronomical literature, the capitalized word ' Galaxy ' is used to refer to our galaxy, the Milky Way, to distinguish it from the billions of other galaxies.

The word " Merovingian " has been used as an adjective, at least five times in Swann's Way by Marcel Proust.

Shintaido ( 新体道, a Japanese word translated as ‘ New Body Way ’) is a system of movement which aims to use the body as a means of expression and communication.

The spelling of the Yupik word " Aleknagik " has been disputed, but since Yupik was an unwritten language, the name, which was described by the early 1930 resident family called Yako was said to ' Wrong Way Home ", because Nushagak River residents returning to their homes upriver would sometimes become lost in the fog and find themselves swept up the Wood River with the tide, inadvertently arriving at Aleknagik Lake.

Like Danzig, this album was issued a Parental Advisory label despite the only instances of profanity being mild and infrequent ( in this case, one use of the word " bastard " in " Long Way Back From Hell " and " Pain in the World ", and one use of the word " bitch " in " Her Black Wings ").

Sydney J. Bounds used the word as the name of a planet in his 1977 Science Fiction story No Way Back.

Wollomombi Falls ( pronounced ' walla mom bee '), from an Aboriginal word, are located in the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, 40 km due east of Armidale, New South Wales and 1 km off the Waterfall Way.

The word is also mentioned in a few lines of the Lady Gaga song Born This Way.

These are characterized by one strong pull per chorus, typically on the last word, as in " Way, haul away, haul away " Joe "'!

An early mining settlement of Lake Way Gold, named after the dry Lake Way south of Wiluna, established around 1896, was called Weeloona, derived from the aboriginal word meaning Place of wind.

In the Fourth Way teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff the word " fakir " is used to denote the specifically physical path of development, compared with the word " yogi " ( which Gurdjieff used for a path of mental development ) and " monk " ( which he used for the path of emotional development ).

Beliefs of the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ and its successors include the inspiration of the Bible as the word of God ; salvation made possible only through Jesus Christ ; the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues ; water baptism by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins ; the premillennial second coming of Jesus Christ ; the final judgment of the dead ; and the establishment of new heavens and a new earth.

This liberalism is what is properly called in a global context social liberalism, or what contemporary North American use of the word signifies as liberalism: liberal democracy, social justice, social progressivism, Third Way, multiculturalism, diplomacy in foreign policy, and a regulated free market economy ( during the Trudeau era the Liberals arguably supported a mixed economy ).

The call letters are supposed to represent the word " hits "; indeed, an early advertising campaign for the station claimed that HTZ was " The New Way to Spell ' Hits ' in New York.

Mugga Way is named after an Aboriginal word also associated with the locality since the days of the early settlers.

The formation of splinter groups took place in the wake of actions by L. Craig Martindale after his appointment to replace Wierwille, including the implementation of new rules and beliefs, and the dissension among its leadership when Chris Geer initially read the authored 40, 000 word document titled " Passing of a Patriarch " to the Trustee leadership and Way headquarters staff.

The band gained prominence after the release of their first album, Other Way Out, which quickly sold out its initial run through word of mouth alone.

Alan Watts's autobiography, In My Own Way ( 1972 ), starts with the sentence: " Topophilia is a word invented by the British poet John Betjeman for a special love for peculiar places.