The English word “ sabbat ” came indirectly from Hebrew ( ש ַׁ ב ָּ ת ).

It was possibly as a result of these major trials that the term akelarre became synonymous with the word " sabbat " and spread into common parlance in both Basque and Spanish.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

Greek ἄβαξ itself is probably a borrowing of a Northwest Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, word akin to Hebrew ʾābāq ( אבק ), " dust " ( since dust strewn on wooden boards to draw figures in ).

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

In category theory, an automorphism is an endomorphism ( i. e. a morphism from an object to itself ) which is also an isomorphism ( in the categorical sense of the word ).

For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv.

Abbreviations can also be used to give a different context to the word itself, such as " PIN Number " ( wherein if the abbreviation were removed the context would be invalid ).

The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ( ankura ).

* In a version of Scrabble called Clabbers, the name itself being an anagram of Scrabble, tiles may be placed in any order on the board as long as they anagram to a valid word.

The word " furlong " itself derives from the fact that it is one furrow long.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

French Academy member Étienne Gilson summarized this long-known characteristic of the experienced world as follows :"... the word being is a noun ... it signifies either a being ( that is, the substance, nature, and essence of anything existent ), or being itself, a property common to all that which can rightly be said to be.

The word comes from Old English " bōc " which ( itself ) comes from the Germanic root "* bōk -", cognate to beech.

The word bronze is borrowed from, itself borrowed from ( compare Medieval ), whose origin is unclear.

Thus understood, the centuries-old English word Χmas, is actually a shortened form of CHmas, which is, itself, a shortened form for Christmas.

The word " conservative " itself is a term of abuse in France.

The word ' catapult ' comes from the Latin ' catapulta ', which in turn comes from the Greek καταπέλτης ( katapeltēs ), itself from ( kata ), " downwards " + πάλλω ( pallō ), " to toss, to hurl ".

The word chaparral is a loan word from Spanish chaparro, meaning both " small " and " dwarf " evergreen oak, which itself comes from the Basque word txapar, with exactly the same meaning.

The word " corona " itself derived from the Latin, meaning crown, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek κορώνη ( korōnē ) meaning " garland " or " wreath ".

As for the origin of the Sanskrit word itself there have been various theories proposed.

Based on what Krishnamurti states referring to a scholarly paper published in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, the Sanskrit word itself is later than since the dates for the forms with-r-are centuries later than the dates for the forms without-r-(, -, damela-etc.

A recursive definition, sometimes also called an inductive definition, is one that defines a word in terms of itself, so to speak, albeit in a useful way.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

Even then, the flexibility of the phrasing suggests that the word comes first in importance.

We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.

The word Nepōhualtzintzin comes from the Nahuatl and it is formed by the roots ; Ne-personal -; pōhual or pōhualli-the account -; and tzintzin-small similar elements.

The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.

The conventional symbol Z possibly comes from the German word ( atomic number ).

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

The specific name comes from the Afar word for " basal family ancestor ".

The word angle comes from the Latin word angulus, meaning " a corner ".

Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

The word amaranth comes from the Greek word amarantos, meaning " unwithering ".

Christianity's idea of " eternal life " comes from the word for life, zoe, and a form of aeon, which could mean life in the next aeon, the Kingdom of God, or Heaven, just as much as immortality, as in.

The word acropolis comes from the Greek words ( akron, " edge, extremity ") and ( polis, " city ").

The word astrology comes from the early Latin word astrologia, deriving from the Greek noun, ' account of the stars '.

To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like " ptosis " ( with the " p " silent ), which comes from the same root " to fall ", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid.

The name " Aleut " comes from the Aleut word allíthuh, meaning " community.

The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne ( automne in modern French ), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus.