Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

A more recent etymology by Xavier Delamarre would derive it from a Common Celtic * Beltinijā, cognate with the name of the Lithuanian goddess of death Giltinė, the root of both being Proto-Indo-European * gʷelH-" suffering, death ".

In fact, the etymology of the family is enterobacterium with the suffix to designate a family ( aceae ) — not after the genus Enterobacter ( which would be " Enterobacteraceae ")— and the type genus is Escherichia.

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.

Piersen writes, " Such an etymology would offer Indiana a plausible and worthy first Hoosier – ' Black Harry ' Hoosier – the greatest preacher of his day, a man who rejected slavery and stood up for morality and the common man.

A common and certainly apocryphal folk etymology is that the term originated from the historical poker games in the colonial west of America, where if a player bet everything he possessed, he would place the nuts of his wagon wheels on the table to ensure that, should he lose, he would be unable to flee and would have to make good on the bet.

As its etymology would suggest, its usage is relatively recent and as such its definition is not entirely settled.

This interpretation would either invalidate the ' assembly ' explanation given above, or push back the time of the re-interpretation by popular etymology to very early times indeed.

This etymology would tie in well with Dagda's mythic association with the sun and the earth, with kingship and excellence in general.

An alternative etymology derives the first part from Old English weri ( to wear ); the full form in this case would be glossed as wearer of wolf skin.

A popular etymology would derive the term from 九能一 ( 能 " nō ": talent ) with Japanese numbers " ku " ( 九 ) for " nine ", the particle " no " ( の ) for " and " and " ichi " ( 一 ) for " one ", literally translated to " Nine and One ".

However, this Proto-Algonquian term most likely was ultimately derived from a form *- a · towe ·, meaning simply " to speak a foreign language ", which would make it similar to the etymology of the Greek " Barbarian ".

One hypothetical etymology points to London bearskin " jobbers " ( market makers ), who would sell bearskins before the bears had actually been caught in contradiction of the proverb ne vendez pas la peau de l ' ours avant de l ’ avoir tué (" don't sell the bearskin before you've killed the bear ")— an admonition against over-optimism.

If the name has an Indo-European etymology, it is possibly a suffixed form of a root * wel-" to turn, roll ", or of * sel-" to flow, run ".< ref > The American Heritage Dictionary, " Indo-European roots: wel < sup > ₂ </ sup >"</ ref > The latter possibility would allow comparison to the Vedic Sanskrit Saraṇyū, a character who is abducted in Rigveda 10. 17. 2.

" 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.

" However, as both his predecessor, Cerdic, and successor, Ceawlin, might have Celtic names, an alternative etymology has been postulated from " Cunorix " which would mean " hound-king " in Old British ( rendered as Cinir in Old Welsh, Kynyr in Middle Welsh ).

Proto-Celtic * Lugus may be related to the root of the Proto-Celtic * lug-rā ‘ moon ’ ( the origin of Welsh lloer, though Peter Schrijver suggests an alternative etymology for lloer, from Common Celtic * lus-rā, where the root would be cognate with that of Latin luridus * lus-idus " pale yellow ").

An alternate etymology, proposed by the Dutch scholar Lauran Toorians, would derive the name Gawain not from the Middle Welsh Gwalchmei, but rather from the medieval Dutch name Walewein ( attested in Flanders and Northern France c. 1100 AD ).

An alternative etymology would be from the common noun hwicce " ark, chest, locker ", in reference to the appearance of the territory as a flat-bottomed valley bordered by the Cotswolds and the Malvern Hills.

A different etymology grounded in the legendary history of Latium and Etruria was proposed by Preller and Müller-Deeke: Etruscan Nethunus, Nethuns would be an adjectival form of toponym Nepe ( t ), Nepete ( presently Nepi ), town of the ager Faliscus near Falerii.

Other origins for the word pisco have been explored including a Mapudungun etymology where " pishku " has been interpreted as " something boiled in a pot ," which would in this hypothesis relate to the concept of burned wine ( Spanish: vino quemado ).

The etymology of " bullet " and the adjective form of " proof " in the late 16th century would suggest that the term " bulletproof " originated shortly thereafter to identify a dent on the armor which proved it would resist bullet penetration.

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 ).

A semantically similar etymology exists for nectar, the beverage of the gods ( Greek: νέκταρ, néktar ) presumed to be a compound of the PIE roots * nek -, " death ", and -* tar, " overcoming ".

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.

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.

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 ".

Another reason for doubting the literal nature of these early genealogies is that the etymology of the names of several early members of the dynasty do not appear to be Germanic, which is the origin of these peoples.

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

The etymology of fiddle is uncertain: the Germanic fiddle may derive from the same early Romance word as does violin, or it may be natively Germanic .< ref >

" It may be derived from the Welsh pen gwyn " white head ", although the etymology is debated.

Modern etymology reconstructs Proto-Germanic * hagatusjon-from haegtesse and hagazussa ; the first element is probably cognate with hedge, which derives from PIE * kagh-" hedge, enclosure ", and the second perhaps from * dhewes-" fly about, be smoke, vanish.

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 ".

He seems to have felt the want of definite principles of etymology without being able to discover them, and indeed even in the first edition of his grammar ( 1819 ) he seemed to be often groping in the dark.

The etymology of the name Loki has yet to be solved.

This name may be of Swahili etymology ; not to be confused with the Panga fish.

Its etymology may be traced to " daug menąs " ( much wisdom ) or " daugio minimas " ( much fame ).

The etymology of the name is contested, according to one view, the name Odysseus derives from the verb (), meaning " to be wroth against ', ' hate ", suggesting that the name could be rendered as " the one who is wrathful / hated ".

The name has fallen into disfavor and is now considered to be pejorative, possibly because of a folk etymology for " Galla " ( that it came from Qal la or " قال لا ," pronounced similar to Gal la, Arabic for " he said no ") that implies they refused Muhammad's offer to convert to Islam.

In English, swears and curse words tend to be more often Germanic than Latin in terms of etymology ( linguistic origin ).

While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (" Jew-hatred "),

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 '.

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 '.

The etymology of the name is disputed ; an alternative name of the dance is stantipes, which suggests that one foot was stationary during the dance ; but the more widely accepted etymology relates it to estamper, to stamp the feet.

So it is more plausible that Fosite is the older name and Forseti a folk etymology.

The May 15, 1843 issue of the official Mormon periodical Times and Seasons contains an article, purportedly written by Joseph Smith, Jr., deriving the etymology of the name " Mormon " from English " more " + Egyptian mon, " good ", and extolling the meaning as follows:

" This connects the future patriarch's name with nāḥam, " comfort ", but it seems better related to the word nûaḥ, meaning " rest ", and is more a play on words than a true etymology.

Though the etymology of the word ' panettone ' is rather mundane, three more complex and fanciful folk etymologies have arisen.

See Grad ( Slavic settlement ) for more complete etymology.

Although the patterns are inconsistent, when English spelling rules take into account syllable structure, phonetics, etymology and accents, there are dozens of rules that are 75 % or more reliable.

Two more pioneering works produced during the Han Dynasty are Fangyan, the first Chinese work concerning dialects, and Shiming, devoted to etymology.

" This reversal of fortune must be caused by the tragic hero's hamartia, which is often mistranslated as a character flaw, but is more correctly translated as a mistake ( since the original Greek etymology traces back to hamartanein, a sporting term that refers to an archer or spear-thrower missing his target ).

The fact that classical Greek authors often used eponymous explanations to explain away names through folk etymology makes it more likely that Ithakos derives from Ithaca rather than vice versa.

" Janda ( 2010 ) accepts the etymology but proposes the more cosmological interpretation of " he who impels the ( world -) tree.

The Welsh redactions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Brut y Brenhinedd, associate him with Ynys Afallach, which is substituted as the Welsh name for Geoffrey's Insula Avalonsis ( Island of Avalon ), but this is fanciful medieval etymology and it is more likely his name derives from the Welsh word afall " apple tree " ( modern Welsh afal " apple ", afalllen " apple tree " cf.

A more recent etymology is that Kokopelli means literally " kachina hump ".

Another, much more believable etymology for the name is insisted on by speakers of Wichita, the language of the tribe which used to live in the area but now lives mostly around Anadarko, Oklahoma.

However, an alternative, more obscure etymology exists which suggests the name means " promontory into marsh ", which would make sense considering that Frodsham had a promontory castle very close to marshland.

However, Bailey was never explicit about the etymology of the word, and it has been suggested that it is a contraction of the words cultigen and variety, which seems more appropriate.