-
variant of the word for "Sun" (meaning that the
spelling with g is
unetymological), but
alternative suggestions have been put forward, such as deriving...
- Spanish-language
forms of the name. The
English pronunciation with /ks/ is
unetymological,
contrary to the
historical value of the
letter x (/ʃ/) in
Spanish orthography...
- is
given here,
which does not have any suffixes. The
initial /h/ is
unetymological, and has been
explained as
influence of the
adjacent numeral hat '6'...
- into
English as horde,
probably via
Polish and
French or Spanish. The
unetymological initial h- is
found in all
western European forms and was
likely first...
- the Gallo-Romance vernaculars. Use of the
adjective romand (with its
unetymological final -d) in
reference to the Franco-Provençal
dialects can be traced...
- part the
modern spelling systems have
eliminated this.
Examples of
unetymological ⟨th⟩ in
English are the name of the
River Thames from
Middle English...
-
presumably in
reference to a
crossing over the Avon. The
final l is an
unetymological addition that
first appears in the 12th century. An
older form of the...
-
reduced from Legion(em) to Leon(em), and in this form
developed an
unetymological ****ociation with the word for ‘lion’,
Spanish león. In
Spanish it is...
- (compare ἄνθος ánthos, “flower” or ἄνθρωπος, "man, human")
origin with an
unetymological excrescent -h- but this
remains dubious.
April Latin aprilis probably...
- mean both
breeding and discipline.
Grimm considers the
spelling with h
unetymological in
spite of its
early occurrence in some 13th
century do****ents, and...
