In this interpretation, Apollo's title of Lykegenes can simply be read as " born in Lycia ", which effectively severs the god's supposed link with wolves ( possibly a folk etymology ).

Another possible related etymology can be " bull-slayer ".

Scholarly etymology, however, can show no proof of such a speculation.

A better etymology perhaps is from Latin sudis, plural sudes, " spines ", which can be used of spiny fish or spiny terrain.

No clear etymology can be found for the name of the chamber ; the most common explanation, dating to the later 16th century, is ' because at the first all the roofe thereof was decked with images of starres gilted '.

A connection can be seen in the etymology of the name in some European languages ( Mardi in French or martes in Spanish ).

Many of these names appearing in the Linear B inscriptions can be found later in classical Greece like Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Hermes, Eileithyia and Dionysos, but the etymology is the only evidence of the cults.

A folk etymology derives the word from the Greek πάν pan-(" all ") and thēr (" beast of prey ") because they can hunt and kill almost everything.

Similar statues can also be found in the Belgian cities of Hasselt, Ghent, in the town of Braine-l ' Alleud ( where it is called " Il Gamin Quipiche "), and in the French Flemish village of Broxeele, a town with the same etymology as Brussels.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the etymology of the word can be traced back to the Old English word hlāford which originated from hlāfweard meaning ' bread keeper ' or ' loaf-ward ', reflecting the Germanic tribal custom of a chieftain providing food for his followers.

The word ' mistletoe ' ( Old English mistiltan ) is of uncertain etymology ; it may be related to German Mist, for dung and Tang for branch, since mistletoe can be spread in the feces of birds moving from tree to tree.

The etymology of South can be traced back to the Old English word suth, related to the Old High German word sund, and perhaps sunne in Old English with sense of " the region of the sun.

" Val d ' Aran " itself can be considered a pleonasm, as it would mean Valley of the Valley if one took into account its etymology ( val in Gascon and aran from Basque haran ), a combination that reflects its unique geography.

In 1796 Daniel Lysons wrote, " this place in old charters is called Hulviz, Wolwiche, Wollewic, & c. I can find nothing satisfactory relating to its etymology.

In a disputable etymology, W. Meid ( 1992 ) has linked the names Yama ( reconstructed in Proto-Indo-European as * yemos ) and the name of the primeval Norse frost giant Ymir, which can be reconstructed in Proto-Germanic as * umijaz or * jumijaz, in the latter case possibly deriving from PIE, from the root yem " twin ".

Its etymology can be traced to the unlicensed nature of the transmission, but historically there has been occasional but notable use of sea vessels – fitting the most common perception of a pirate – as broadcasting bases.

Additionally, the etymology of the name was not provided and first appeared in the 7th edition of Bergey's manual (= top authority in bacterial nomeclature ) as Greek pseudes ( ψευδες ) " false " and-monas ( μονάς / μονάδα ) " a single unit ", which can mean false unit, but there is also the possibility that Migula intended it as false Monas, a nanoflagellate protist.

* The same word can also be used irrespective of sex, especially in scientific and poetic language ; see Man ( word ) for etymology:

Based on the etymology of the word explication, studies using explication, and extended argumentation we can deduce that explication in the arts, humanities and social sciences is largely an interpretative process where the outcomes-the new explicit knowledge-is open to subsequent dispute, with the possibility of additional and / or different meanings being derived in the future.

The etymology can be further traced back to Latin gens or Arabic " genat " " جينات " meaning clan, stock or people and genus meaning birth, descent, origin, race, stock, or family, and cognate with Greek genos ( γένος ) " race, kind ," and gonos " birth, offspring, stock [...].

The etymology of the character can possibly be traced back to the abstract representation of a totem symbol.

The etymology of the word is uncertain but may derive from the French word " coiffe " which can mean either a hairstyle or, going further back, the mail knights wore over their heads and under their helmets.

Like ' Grimsby ' the etymology of the word Scartho can be traced back to having Old Norse origin, more than likely due to the ancestry of the surrounding area.

The etymology of the names of the atolls can be traced as follows.

Adams ( 1997 ) have also proposed an etymology based on the connection with the Indo-European dawn goddess, from " very " and " to shine ".

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

Albinism ( from Latin albus, " white "; see extended etymology, also called achromia, achromasia, or achromatosis ) is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or defect of tyrosinase, a copper-containing enzyme involved in the production of melanin.

It is also possible that the name Axeinos arose by popular etymology from a Scythian Iranic axšaina-' unlit ,' ' dark '; the designation " Black Sea " may thus date from Antiquity.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

It is recognized as the etymology of the form Ossaioi ( and note that Philo also offered an O spelling ) and Essaioi and Esseni spelling variations have been discussed by VanderKam, Goranson and others.

A false etymology ( pseudoetymology, paraetymology or paretymology ), sometimes called folk etymology although this is also a technical term in linguistics, is a popularly held but false belief about the origins of specific words, often originating in " common-sense " assumptions.

The etymology of Skye is complex and may also include a pre-Celtic root.

Medieval popular etymology also associated it ( wrongly ) with derivations from the Latin impetere ( to attack ).

Alternatively, it has been also suggested that this is of non-Greek origin and probably of non-Indo-European origin too, while it is of an unknown etymology.

The Book of Enoch contains references to Satariel, thought also to be Sataniel and Satan ' el ( etymology dating back to Babylonian origins ).

With these ideas referring to an organized body of knowledge and " any systematically presented set of concepts, whether they are empirical, axiomatic, or philosophical, " Lehre " is associated with theory and science in the etymology of general systems, but also does not translate from the German very well ; " teaching " is the " closest equivalent ", but " sounds dogmatic and off the mark ".

The earliest etymology of " Vinland " is found in Adam of Bremen's 11th century Latin Descriptio insularum Aquilonis (" Description of the Northern Islands "): " Moreover, he has also reported one island discovered by many in that ocean, which is called Winland, for the reason that grapevines grow there by themselves, producing the best wine.

This is also consistent with the etymology of Summanus, deriving from sub and mane ( the time before morning ).

Zíbrt also ironically dismisses the etymology suggested by A. Fähnrich ( in Ein etymologisches Taschenbuch, Jiein, 1846 ) that it derives from the Bohemian word pole, i. e., " field ".

The Garzanti online dictionary also gives the etymology as deriving from house, but house of the bishop (" domu ( m ) ( episcopi ); ' casa ( del vescovo )') instead of the house of God.

It has also been suggested that the λ of arose from an original ν, and thus the etymology of the name is connected with the root of Venus.

Rudolf Simek says that the etymology that Snorri presents in Gylfaginning for the name Gná may not be correct, yet it is unclear what the name may otherwise mean, though Gná has also been etymologically theorized as a " goddess of fullness.

al-Biruni quotes and criticizes the medieval scientist Hamza al-Isfahani who had stated " asturlab is an arabization of this Persian phrase ": sitara yab meaning " taker of the stars " In medieval Islamic sources there is also a " fictional " and popular etymology of the words as " lines of lab ".

Ovid and Hyginus both also make the metamorphosis the origin of the etymology for " halcyon days ," the seven days in winter when storms never occur.

In Roman mythology, Evander ( from Greek Εὔανδρος Euandros, " good man " or " strong man ": a spelling and etymology affected by poets to emphasize the hero's virtue ), also spelled Euander, was a deific culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who brought the Greek pantheon, laws and alphabet to Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of Rome, sixty years before the Trojan War.

Centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Rhomaike Archaiologia ( Antiquitates romanae, " Roman Antiquities "), quoting Antioch of Syracuse states that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and retells this account that Italia was named after him, alongside the other account that Italia derives its name from a word for calf, an etymology also stated by Timaeus, Varro ( Rerum Rusticarum, 2. 5 ), and Festus.

In trying to ascertain the etymology of this theonym, it is important to bear in mind that it is used not only to refer to deities, but also as a toponym and hydronym.