- weorþscipe,
meaning "worship,
honour shown to an object",
which has been
etymologised as "worthiness" or "worth-ship" – in the
sense of giving, at its simplest...
-
strait comes from the
Ancient Gr**** Βόσπορος (Bósporos),
which was folk-
etymologised as βοὸς πόρος, i.e. "cattle strait" (or "Ox-ford"), from the genitive...
- name "Bristol"
derives from the Old
English form Brycgstow,
typically etymologised as 'place at the bridge';"the
place called Bridge by the
place called...
- BCE). The Sumero-Akkadian name for Jerusalem, uru-salim, is
variously etymologised to mean "foundation of [or: by] the god Shalim": from West
Semitic yrw...
- 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...
- (OED1)
historic (widely used in the
Bible instead of donkey)
bannock Etymologised by the OED as from
Gaelic bannach, ? <
Latin pānicium < pānis bread....
- 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...
- ('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...
- Shalem. The Sumero-Akkadian name for Jerusalem, uru-salim, is
variously etymologised to mean "foundation of [or: by] the god Shalim": from Hebrew/Semitic...
- Heledd's
account may owe
little to
historical reality).
Andrew Breeze has
etymologised this name as a
compound of the
Brittonic word *kok- ('rock') and a personal...
