-
Caledonia is
derived from the
tribal name
Caledones (or Calīdones),
which he
etymologises as "'possessing hard feet',
alluding to
standfastness or endurance",...
- n-stem Calēdones or Calīdones, from
earlier *Kalēdon[i]oi),
which he
etymologises as
perhaps 'possessing hard feet' ("alluding to
standfastness or endurance")...
-
strait comes from the
Ancient Gr**** Βόσπορος (Bósporos),
which was folk-
etymologised as βοὸς πόρος, i.e. "cattle strait" (like "Ox-ford"), from the genitive...
- ('σκλαβιστί', the
language of the Slavs). The Rus'
names are
usually etymologised as Old Norse. An
argument used to
support this view is that the name...
-
venerate "worship,
honour shown to an
object or deity,
which has been
etymologised as "worthiness or worth-ship"—to give, at its simplest,
worth to something...
- in Cornwall, the vast
majority of place-names in
England are
easily etymologised as Old
English (or Old Norse, due to
later Viking influence), demonstrating...
- Ham, the son of Noah. In some
rabbinical interpretations,
Amalek is
etymologised as am lak, 'a
people who lick (blood)', but most
scholars regard the...
- (OED1)
historic (widely used in the
Bible instead of donkey)
bannock Etymologised by the OED as from
Gaelic bannach, ? <
Latin pānicium < pānis bread....
- Shalem. The Sumero-Akkadian name for Jerusalem, uru-salim, is
variously etymologised to mean "foundation of [or: by] the god Shalim": from
Semitic yry, "to...
- folk-etymology,
producing the form andiron.
Sometimes this was
further folk-
etymologised as hand-iron. Due to the
reanalysis of the
French form l'andier ('the...
