The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.

The word " cement " traces to the Romans, who used the term opus caementicium to describe masonry resembling modern concrete that was made from crushed rock with burnt lime as binder.

In Finnish the name for Easter pääsiäinen, traces back to the verb pääse-meaning to be released, as does the Sámi word Beassážat.

The name of the language traces its origin to the Esperanto word ido, meaning " offspring ", since the language is a " descendant " of Esperanto.

Another theory traces the word kipper to the kip, or small beak, that male salmon develop during the breeding season.

The word spud traces back to the 16th century.

Robert K. Merton also coauthored ( with Elinor Barber ) The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity which traces the origins and uses of the word " serendipity " since it was coined.

English developed from such a reordering language, and still bears traces of this word order, for example in locative inversion (" In the garden sat a cat ") and some clauses beginning with negative expressions: " only " (" only then do we find X "), " not only " (" not only did he storm away, but he also slammed the door "), " under no circumstances " (" under no circumstances are the students allowed to use a mobile phone "), " on no account " and the like.

Although traces of this figure are still evident in the oldest texts of both India and Iran, in both cultures the word eventually appears as the epithet of other divinities.

OED gives the translation " star-taker " for the English word " astrolabe " and traces it, through medieval Latin, to a Greek word astrolabos.

Max Salazar traces the word back to the early 1930s, when Ignacio Piñeiro composed " Échale salsita ", a Cuban son protesting tasteless food.

Anne Lombard-Jourdan traces the fleur-de-lis to a transformation of the Merovingian crista, a symbol evoking the rising sun ( word derived from crescere, " to grow ", alluding to the newborn Sun ) represented on their coinage, which had the form of a Greek cross with the horizontals curved upwards on either side.

This use of the words Hebdomad and Ogdoad also bears traces of derivation from a previous system, the word Ogdoad occurring in a different sense in the system of Valentinus himself, whose Ogdoad within the Pleroma was probably intended to answer to the Ogdoad outside.

Another idea traces the name to the Irish word fairadh, pronounced " fearoo ", meaning " to turn ".

( Note that the Oxford English Dictionary traces the word " leadership " in English only as far back as the 19th century.

Etymologically, the English term “ coach ” is derived from a medium of transport that traces its origins to the Hungarian word kocsi meaning “ carriage ” that was named after the village where it was first made.

The OED traces the word to the 15th century: various Latin vocabularies translate balducta, bedulta, or casius as " poshet ", " poshoote ", " possyt ", or " possot ".

It traces the word " loyalty " to the 15th century, noting that then it primarily referred to fidelity in service, in love, or to an oath that one has made.

In fact, the word traces its origins back to the Ancient Roman Empire, where moneylenders would set up their stalls in the middle of enclosed courtyards called macella on a long bench called a bancu, from which the words banco and bank are derived.

Merriam-Webster traces the word to 1841.

The poet and scholar Ahmad Mohammad Obaid traces it to the same word, but to its alternative of locust.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

A word taken in its dictionary meaning, a photographic image of a recognizable object, the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

if it had never printed a word of literature its contribution to the politico-sociological area would still be historic.

Nevertheless, they made naught of Marx's prophecy that capitalism would never pay the `` workers '' -- to use Marx's word -- more than a subsistence wage, with the consequence that increased productivity must inevitably find its way into the capitalists' pockets with the result, in turn, that the gap between the rich and the poor would irrevocably widen and the misery of the poor increase.

If you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??

This creates an amusing effect because its position in a sentence seems to make it apply to the wrong word.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

We have been using the word `` public '' in quotation marks, that is, in its vernacular connotation with reference to the odd-lot index theory.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

Either way, the Robert Shaw chorus sings them in fine style with every colorful word and its musical frame spelled out in terms of agreeable listening.

In the third verse ( see above ), the author scolds the materialistic and self-serving robber barons of her day, and urges America to live up to its noble ideals and to honor, with both word and deed, the memory of those who died for their country.

In a perfectly phonemic orthography there would be a consistent one-to-one correspondence between the letters and the phonemes, so that a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.

Strictly speaking, these national languages lack a word corresponding to the verb " to spell " ( meaning to split a word into its letters ), the closest match being a verb meaning to split a word into its syllables.

It breaks language down and analyzes its component parts: theory, sounds and their meaning, utterance usage, word origins, the history of words, the meaning of words and word combinations, sentence construction, basic construction beyond the sentence level, stylistics, and conversation.

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

Thus far, the origins of the word remain inconclusive, as the term is not used outside Mexican-American communities, further indicating that the term is primarily self-identifying.

The origins of the word “ mail ” are not fully known.

When capitalized and without modifiers ( that is, simply the Diaspora ), the term refers specifically to the Jewish diaspora ; when uncapitalized the word diaspora may be used to refer to refugee populations of other origins or ethnicities.

" The word " elephant " has its origins in the Greek, meaning " ivory " or " elephant ".

There are several theories concerning the origins of the word edda.

Since English, German and Dutch have many of the same etymological origins, there actually are a great number of words in both languages that are very similar and do have the same meaning ( e. g. word / Wort / woord, book / Buch / boek, house / Haus / huis, water / Wasser / water ...).

The name giraffe has its earliest known origins in the Arabic word zarafa ( زرافة ), perhaps from some African language.

The prefix hyper-( comes from the Greek prefix " υπερ -" and means " over " or " beyond ", while having common origins with the English word " super ") signifies the overcoming of the old linear constraints of written text.

The Histories — his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced — is a record of his " inquiry " ( or historía, a word that passed into Latin and acquired its modern meaning of " history "), being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information.

In 1900, author Meredith Nicholson wrote The Hoosiers, an early attempt to study the origins of the word as applied to Indiana residents.

Nicholson and Dunn both chronicled some of the popular, satirical origins of the word ( see below ).

" Dickson-Wright further cites etymologist Walter William Skeat as further suggestion of possible Scandinavian origins: Skeat claimed that the hag – element of the word is derived from the Old Norse haggw or the Old Icelandic hoggva ( höggva in modern Icelandic ), meaning ' to hew ' or strike with a sharp weapon, relating to the chopped-up contents of the dish.

The origins of this word lie in the Old Javanese and thus ultimately in the Sanskrit language.

Italian linguist G. Alessio argues that the word can have two origins: the first from the Medieval Greek μακαρώνεια ( makarōneia ) " dirge " ( stated in sec.

The word " raster " has its origins in the Latin rastrum ( a rake ), which is derived from radere ( to scrape ).

There are different theories about the origins of the word ska.

Two origins of the word sufi have been suggested.

The word subjugate has its origins in this practice ( from Latin sub