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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.
This has been widely classified as a folk etymology, and numerous speculative etymologies, many of them non-Greek, have been suggested in scholarship.
The latter etymology has resulted in a number of theories.
Since the later discovery of the electron, an easier to remember, and more durably correct technically although historically false, etymology has been suggested: anode, from the Greek anodos, ' way up ', ' the way ( up ) out of the cell ( or other device ) for electrons '.
Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".
In any event, Peters never asserted that the blue laws were originally printed on blue paper, and this has come to be regarded as an example of false etymology.
The etymology of the word chemistry has been much disputed.
Since the later discovery of the electron, an easier to remember, and more durably technically correct ( although historically false ), etymology has been suggested: cathode, from the Greek kathodos, ' way down ', ' the way ( down ) into the cell ( or other device ) for electrons '.
Maier ( 2010 ) states that the etymology of Cernunnos is unknown, as the Celtic word for " horn " has an a ( as in Carnonos ).
By contrast, a dictionary definition has additional details, typically including an etymology showing snapshots of the earlier meanings and the parent language.
In different Indo-European languages, each of these words has a difficult etymology because of taboo deformations — a euphemism was substituted for the original, which no longer occurs in the language.
While this Hebrew name is not the etymology of Essaioi / Esseni, the Aramaic equivalent Hesi ' im known from Eastern Aramaic texts has been suggested.
The supposition that the early < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > vidula was adopted independently in more than one < nowiki > language < nowiki ></ nowiki > would account adequately for all the < nowiki ></ nowiki > forms ; on the other hand, * fiÞulôn-may be an < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > word of native etymology, though no satisfactory < nowiki ></ nowiki > derivation has been found.
The name has been explained as derived from a Celtic term for " far islands ", but in popular etymology it has long been understood as based on Old Norse fár " livestock ", thus fær-øer " sheep islands ".
However, this Irish etymology was suggested by Daniel Cassidy, whose work has been widely criticised by reputable linguists and scholars.
The etymology of the name is obscure, but ' the one who illuminates the world ' has been proposed.
The etymology of the name is not clear, and its form has no parallel in Hebrew.
The etymology of hoosier is unknown, but it has been used since at least 1830.
However, in spite of these recorded Manx forms, no satisfactory etymology has been proposed for Hop-tu-Naa within Goidelic.
This has been said to derive from the παν-" all " and θήρ from θηρευτής " predator ", meaning " predator of all " ( animals ), though this may be a folk etymology — it may instead be ultimately of Sanskrit origin, from pundarikam, the Sanskrit word for " tiger ".
has a similar etymology.
The etymology of the name Loki has yet to be solved.
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.

etymology and remained
This etymology has been dismissed because Proto-Indo-European * k did not under any known circumstances become * g-in Proto-Celtic, but remained * k. The direct descendent of the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk-(‘ white light ’) in Proto-Celtic is * leuk-as in the name of the Celtic lightning god Leucetios.
The Berbers of North Africa were among the many peoples called " Barbarian " by the Romans ; in their case, the name remained in use, having been adopted by the Arabs ( see Berber etymology ) and is still in use as the name for the non-Arabs in North Africa ( though not by themselves ).
The main theory about the etymology of Kurmanji is that the term Kurmanji, according to Prince Jaladet Bedirkhan, the great Kurdish intellectual who prepared the Latin Kurdish alphabet, comes from Kurd + man + cî which means, those Kurds who remained in their places ( not moved like others ).

etymology and standard
This etymology of praetor became and remains the standard.
Such dialects often contain folk-etymological derivatives of French words, for example lavier (" river, stream ") which is a syncopated variant of the standard French phrase la rivière (" the river ") but has been identified by folk etymology with laver, " to wash "; therefore lavier is interpreted to mean " a place to wash " ( since such streams are often used for washing laundry ).
The bowman etymology is unlikely, since no evidence exists of French forces ( or any other continental European power ) cutting off the fingers of captive bowmen ; in fact, the standard procedure at the time was to summarily execute all enemy commoners captured on the battlefield ( regardless of whether they were bowmen, foot soldiers or merely unarmed auxiliaries ) since they had no ransom value, unlike the nobles whose lives could be worth thousands of florins apiece.
According to P. H. Reaney's Place-Names of Essex, the standard guide to etymology in the county, the name means ' Cicca's well ', Cicca being an Anglo-Saxon personal name.
The name Encorus was developed by WildOutWest, now Magnity Interactive and derives its meaning from Latin etymology " All together " with the goal to establish a standard for wireless / mobile payments.

etymology and derivation
A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.
Another theory occasionally encountered is a derivation from the phrase thog mi an èigh / eugh () " I raised the cry ", which in pronunciation bears a certain resemblance to Hogmanay, as part of the rhymes traditionally recited at New Year but it is unclear if this is simply a case of folk etymology.
Apart from the mythical derivation of Lazio given by the ancients as the place where Jupiter " lay hid " from his father seeking to kill him, a major modern etymology is that Lazio comes from the Latin word " latus ", meaning " wide ", expressing the idea of " flat land " meaning the Roman Campagna.
The derivation from Greek pan-(" all ") and ther (" beast ") may be folk etymology that led to many curious fables.
There was a folk etymology that supported a derivation based on the legendary figure of Mrs. ( Frau ) Perchta, Berchta, a woman ( Holle < Holda ‘ well disposed, dear ’) with good and bad changing features, who was venerated on Perchtertag (= Three Kings Day ) and at Shrovetide was sworn to during the Perchta procession.
In Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion, Pierre Riffard makes a distinction between " occult " and " scientific " etymologies, citing as an example of the former the etymology of ' guru ' in which the derivation is presented as gu (" darkness ") and ru (' to push away '); the latter he exemplifies by " guru " with the meaning of ' heavy '.
implying a derivation from the Hebrew term shama on, meaning " he has heard "; this is a similar etymology as the Torah gives for the theophoric name Ishmael (" God has heard "; Genesis 16: 11 ), on the basis of which it has been argued that the tribe of Simeon may originally have been an Ishmaelite group ( Cheyne and Black, Encyclopaedia Biblica ).
The etymology of the term is uncertain ; the commonly mentioned derivation from Bokhara is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, uncertain.
This Mamercus is said to have received the name of Aemilius because of the persuasiveness of his language ( δι αιμυλιαν λογου ), although such a derivation is certainly false etymology.
Onomastics, the study of proper names and their origins, includes: anthroponymy, concerned with human names, including personal names, surnames and nicknames ; toponymy the study of place names ; and etymology, the derivation, history and use of names as revealed through comparative and descriptive linguistics.
A rival etymology, suggesting a derivation from " Bald Oak ", perhaps meaning a dead oak, is superficially plausible, but the early forms of the name are against it.
In some continental European languages, terms with a christening theme or etymology are preferred ( e. g. " baptême " in French, " doop " in Dutch — mostly used in Flanders ) or variations on a theme of naïveté and the rite of passage such as a derivation from a term for freshman ( e. g. " bizutage " in French, " ontgroening " ( de -
the Zvinech, Zvinyaka, Zveniga Rivers ); the derivation from " town of ringing ( bells )" is a folk etymology.
The precise etymology of the name is unclear, however, one possible derivation is from a Sami word for " spruce forest ".
The technical term " folk etymology ", a translation of the German Volksetymologie from Ernst Förstemann's essay Ueber Deutsche Volksetymologie in the 1852 work Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete des Deutschen, Griechischen und Lateinischen ( Journal of Comparative Linguistic Research in the Areas of German, Greek and Latin ), is used in the science of historical linguistics to refer to a change in the form of a word caused by erroneous popular beliefs about its derivation.
The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of Reuben, which textual scholars attribute to different sources-one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist ; the first explanation given by the Torah is that the name refers to God having witnessed Leah's misery, in regard to her status as the less-favourite of Jacob's wives, implying that the etymology of Reuben is that it derives from raa beonyi, meaning he has seen my misery ; the second explanation is that the name refers to Leah's hope that Reuben's birth will make Jacob love her, implying a derivation from yeehabani, meaning he will love me.
The etymology of the Welsh name Arthur is uncertain, though most scholars favour either a derivation from the Roman gens name Artorius ( ultimately of Messapic or Etruscan origin ), or a native Brittonic compound based on the root * arto-" bear " ( which became arth in Medieval and Modern Welsh ).
However, all of Charlemagne's paladins bore Germanic names ; and the Latin derivation of the name may be a result of folk etymology working on an unidentified Germanic personal name, possibly a cognate of Álvaro ; or possibly distantly connected with the Old Norse Óleifr, meaning " ancestral relic ".
Another etymology proposed is a derivation from Etruscan Lauchum ( or Lauchme ) meaning " king ", which however was transferred into Latin as Lucumo.
It did not have any geographical association with the Hercynian Forest, so, logically, it may have been a parallel derivation from similar etymology.
He also undertook a work entitled " Il Varrone Illirico ," on the etymology of the Illyric language, tending to show the derivation of the ancient names of the principal rivers, mountains, and other localities of Europe from Illyric radicals, but he did not live to complete the work.

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