Pope Julius

Unknown. Presumably named after Pope Julius II, the Warrior Pope.

Of Pope Julius cardys he ys chefe cardynall.

Item the laste day delived unto the kings grace whiche his grace lost at pope July game wt my lady marquess and m Weston xvj cor

1532 November 30, Privy Purse Expences of King Henry VIII, 30 Novembre 1532:

Pope Julio (if I fail not in the name, and sure I am that there is a game of the cards after his name) was a great and wary player, a great vertue in a man of his profession

c. 1596, Sir John Harington, A Treatise on Playe, quoted in Nugae antiquae, published 1804:

(obsolete) A sixteenth-century gambling card game about which little is known.


aberration

en-noun

aberration (countable and uncountable, plural aberrations)

/ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩/

A learned borrowing from Latin aberrātiō(n) (“relief, diversion”), first attested in 1594, from aberrō (“wander away, go astray”), from ab (“away”) + errō (“wander”). Compare French aberration. By surface analysis, aberrat(e) + -ion.

абера́ция

astronomy: small periodical change of position of heavenly bodies

Only by submitting to the aberration could the human traders travel safely through the territory of Zularn.

(fantasy, roleplaying games) Any creature with supernatural powers not found in the organized classes of beings in a given setting.


tables

(backgammon) The halves or quarters of a backgammon board.


abacus

la-noun

abacus m (genitive abacī); second declension

abacī (genitive)
abacus (nominative singular)
abacī (nominative plural)
abacī (genitive singular)
abacōrum (genitive plural)
abacō (dative singular)
abacīs (dative plural)
abacum (accusative singular)
abacōs (accusative plural)
abacō (ablative singular)
abacīs (ablative plural)
abace (singular vocative)
abacī (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: àbac

→ English: abacus

⇒ Esperanto: abako

→ French: abaque

→ Romanian: abac

→ Galician: ábaco

→ German: Abakus

→ Irish: abacas

→ Italian: abaco

→ Malay: abakus

→ Norwegian Bokmål: abakus

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: abakus

→ Portuguese: ábaco

→ Russian: аба́к (abák)

→ Spanish: ábaco

From Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”).

Sed cum inter initia imperii eburneis quadrigis cotidie in abaco luderet, ad omnis etiam minimos circenses e secessu commeabat, primo clam, deinde propalam, ut nemini dubium esset eo die utique affuturum.

c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Neronis XXII.period1

But in the early stages of his rule he used to play every day on a gaming board with ivory chariots. He would also travel from his retreat to the Circus games, even the least important ones, at first in secret and then openly. As a result, no one was in any doubt that he would be present in Rome that day at least.


quiz

→ Danish: quiz

→ Dutch: quiz, kwis

→ German: Quiz

→ Indonesian: kuis

→ Japanese: クイズ (kuizu)

→ Korean: 퀴즈 (kwijeu)

→ Norman: quiz

→ Norwegian Bokmål: quiz, kviss

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: quiz, kviss

→ Polish: kwiz, quiz

→ Portuguese: quiz

→ Spanish: quiz

→ Swedish: kviss

→ Welsh: cwis

Attested since the 1780s, of unknown origin.
* The Century Dictionary suggests it was originally applied to a popular toy, from a dialectal variant of whiz.
* The Random House Dictionary suggests the original sense was "odd person" (circa 1780).
* Others suggest the meaning "hoax" was original (1796), shifting to the meaning "interrogate" (1847) under the influence of question and inquisitive.
* Some say without evidence it was invented by a late-18th-century Dublin theatre proprietor who bet he could add a new nonsense word to the English language; he had the word painted on walls all over the city, and the morning after, everyone was talking about it (The Pre-Victorian Drama in Dublin).
* Others suggest it was originally quies (1847), Latin qui es? (who are you?), traditionally the first question in oral Latin exams. They suggest that it was first used as a noun from 1867, and the spelling quiz first recorded in 1886, but this is demonstrably incorrect.
* A further derivation, assuming that the original sense is "good, ingenuous, harmless man, overly conventional, pedantic, rule-bound man, square; nerd; oddball, eccentric", is based on a column from 1785 which claims that the origin is a jocular translation of the Horace quotation vir bonus est quis as "the good man is a quiz" at Cambridge.

(dated) One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.

We came second in the pub quiz.

Once all six friends are clear that the topic of Janet's story is a pub quiz, we launch into talk around this topic, combining factual information about quizzes we have participated in with fantasies about becoming a team ourselves.

1997, Jennifer Coates, “The construction of a collaborative floor in women’s friendly talk”, in Talmy Givón, editor, Conversation: Cognitive, Communicative and Social Perspectives, page 72:

A competition in the answering of questions.

vasvrawedstryd

For many it is hard to envision a scenario where a student completes an online quiz (or test) without using their smartphone, tablet, or other device to look up the answers, or ‘share’ those answers with other students.

2015 May 18, Matt Farrell, Shannon Maheu, “Why open-book tests deserve a place in your courses”, in Faculty Focus:

(education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.


quiz

en-verb

quiz (third-person singular simple present quizzes, present participle quizzing, simple past and past participle quizzed)

quizzes (present singular third-person)
quizzing (participle present)
quizzed (participle past)
quizzed (past)

he quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room—

1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis:

'Now, Puddock, back him up—encourage your man,' said Devereux, who took a perverse pleasure in joking; 'tell him to flay the lump, splat him, divide him, and cut him in two pieces—'
It was a custom of the corps to quiz Puddock about his cookery […]

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

(transitive, archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

(transitive, archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.


quiz

quiz (nominative singular)
quizy (nominative plural)
quizu (genitive singular)
quizów (genitive plural)
quizowi (dative singular)
quizom (dative plural)
quiz (accusative singular)
quizy (accusative plural)
quizem (instrumental singular)
quizami (instrumental plural)
quizie (locative singular)
quizach (locative plural)
quizie (singular vocative)
quizy (plural vocative)

quiz (competition in the answering of questions)


craft

craft (third-person singular simple present crafts, present participle crafting, simple past and past participle crafted)

crafts (present singular third-person)
crafting (participle present)
crafted (participle past)
crafted (past)

From Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”).

cog

(video games) To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

crafter

to combine different items to form a new one.


achievement

en-noun

achievement (countable and uncountable, plural achievements)

From Middle French achevement (compare Modern French achèvement), from Old French achevement, from the verb achever, achiever (“to finish”); equivalent to achieve + -ment. The heraldic sense may be influenced by hatchment.

Finishing the game does not give you a 100% score until you have unlocked all of the achievements.

(video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.


BM

BM (countable and uncountable, plural BMs)

Fans know IdrA for his BM — Bad Manners.

2014, Doug Hendrie, AmalgaNations: How Globalisation Is Good:

(video games) Initialism of bad manners.


BM

en-verb

BM (third-person singular simple present BMs, present participle BMing, simple past and past participle BMed)

BMs (present singular third-person)
BMing (participle present)
BMed (participle past)
BMed (past)


seme

From Latin sēmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.


elephant

en-noun

elephant (countable and uncountable, plural elephants)

→ Hawaiian: ʻelepani

→ Maori: arewhana

→ Tokelauan: elefane

→ Tongan: ʻelefanite

→ Welsh: eliffant

From Middle English elefant, elefaunt, from Old French elefant, elefan, olifant, re-latinized in Middle French as elephant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās) (gen. ἐλέφαντος (eléphantos)). Believed to be derived from an Afroasiatic form such as Proto-Berber *eḷu (“elephant”) (compare Tamahaq êlu, Tamasheq alu) or Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant; ivory”). More at ivory. Replaced Middle English olifant (from the aforementioned Old French form, from Vulgar Latin *olifantus), which replaced Old English elpend (“elephant”).

elephant trunk

Pachypodium namaquanum or Agave attenuata

elephant tortoise

Testudo gigantea or Testudo elaphantopus

elephant yam

Amorphophallus konjac or Amorphophallus paeoniifolius

Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant

(paper, printing) Synonym of elephant paper

(xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that is moved two points diagonally, may not jump over intervening pieces and may not cross the river.


יד

he-noun

יָד • (yád) f (dual indefinite ידיים / יָדַיִם, plural indefinite יָדוֹת, singular construct יַד־, dual construct יְדֵי־, plural construct יְדוֹת־)

יָד (canonical)
yád (romanization)
ידיים (dual indefinite)
יָדַיִם (dual indefinite)
יָדוֹת (indefinite plural)
יַד־ (construct singular)
יְדֵי־ (construct dual)
יְדוֹת־ (construct plural)
יָד (indefinite singular)
יָדִי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
יָדֵנוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַיָּד (definite singular)
יָדְךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
יָדֵךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
יֶדְכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
יֶדְכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
יַד־ (construct singular)
יָדוֹ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
יָדָהּ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
יָדָם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
יָדָן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)
ידיים (dual indefinite)
יָדַיִם (dual indefinite)
ידיי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
יָדַי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
יָדֵינוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הידיים (definite dual)
הַיָּדַיִם (definite dual)
יָדֶיךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
ידייך (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
יָדַיִךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
יְדֵיכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
יְדֵיכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
יְדֵי־ (construct dual)
יָדָיו (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
יָדֶיהָ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
יְדֵיהֶם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
יְדֵיהֶן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)
יָדוֹת (indefinite plural)
ידותיי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
יְדוֹתַי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
יְדוֹתֵינוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַיָּדוֹת (definite plural)
יְדוֹתֶיךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
ידותייך (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
יְדוֹתַיִךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
יְדוֹתֵיכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
יְדוֹתֵיכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
יְדוֹת־ (construct plural)
יְדוֹתָיו (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
יְדוֹתֶיהָ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
יְדוֹתָם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
יְדוֹתָן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)

he-decl

ידיים\יָדַיִם

→ English: yad

→ Dutch: jat

Dutch: jatten

Root
 י־ד (y-d)
From Proto-Semitic *yad- (“hand”).

בָּא לְיָדוֹ

to get a chance or an opportunity; to come to one's hand

מִכָּל הַבָּא לַיָּד

from what's available; from everything that comes to hand

בִּקֵּשׁ אֶת יָדָהּ

to propose a marriage; to request her hand


numeral

As an adjective, from Middle English numeral, numerall, from Latin numerālis (“pertaining to a number”), from numerus (“a number”).
As a noun, via Middle French numeral.

der

Jacks, queens, and kings are not numerals.

(card games) A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).


century

/ˈsɛnt͡ʃʊɹi/

From Middle English centurie (“a count of one hundred (of anything); a division of the Roman army; century; a division of land”), from Old French centurie, from Latin centuria, from centum (“one hundred”). The most common modern use is a shortening of century of years.

inh

That was his tenth professional century.

(snooker) A score of one hundred points.


avatar

→ Japanese: アバター

Avatar (Hinduism)
Chip Morningstar
LucasArts
Neal Stephenson
Randy Farmer
Shadowrun
Snow Crash
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
pen and paper

First use appears c. 1784, in The Hindu Wife; or, The Enchanted Fruit, by William Jones. Borrowed from Hindustani अवतार / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root √तॄ (√tṝ, “to cross”). In the computing sense, some use appeared in video games in the 1980s, such as the online roleplaying game Habitat (1985) by Lucasfilm Games (today LucasArts), by Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, later versions of the Ultima series (following religious use in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (1985)), and the pen and paper role-playing game Shadowrun (1989). Also popularized by the novel Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson.

أَفَاتَار

The people are pieces of software called avatars. They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse.

1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, pages 35–36:

A virtual intelligence is an advanced form of user interface software. VIs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Virtual Intelligence (VI) Codex entry:

Devices now track and record our every move and, whether we like it or not, each one of us will bequeath to posterity a virtual avatar, a digital being whose calls, messages, transactions, loves and losses will live on in a vast, unregulated cyberspace. The afterlife has arrived, at least for our cyberbeings.

2013 November 27, Roger Cohen, “The past in our future”, in The New York Times:

en:an instantiation digitally with a simulation

(Internet, video games) A complex and dynamic digital representation of a person or being in the form of a digital model, used online as a simulation or emulation of a person, or as a person's online alter ego, in a virtual world, virtual chat room, or metaverse.

Coordinate term: icon

en:an instantiation digitally with a simulacrum

(Internet, video games) A simple and static or nearly static digital representation of a person or being in the form of a small digital object, used online as a simulacrum or token of a person or that person's online alter ego, in any digital environment but especially in nonvirtual, nonmetaversal ones.


avatar

Borrowed from French avatar, from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”). The computing sense comes from English.

pt:an instantiation digitally with a simulation


西

ja-noun

西(シャー) • (shā)

Possibly a corruption of Mandarin 西 (xī, “west”).

(mahjong) a 役 (yaku, “winning hand”) with a triplet or quad of west wind tiles; depending on wind round and player's seat wind, it is worth either 1 or 2 翻 (han, “doubles”)


nigger

Attested since 1888 according to Svenska Akademiens ordbok. From English nigger.

(dated, games) Synonym of ruta (“foursquare”).


SMS

/ˌɛs ɛm ˈɛs/

(video games) Initialism of Sega Master System.


crap

(gambling, dice games) A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.


season

→ Japanese: シーズン (shīzun)

From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Doublet of saison. Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).

temps

(obsolete) an extended, undefined period of time

(video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(video games) A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.


tao

From earlier tawo, from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Cognate with Ilocano tao, Cebuano tawo, Thao caw, Tsou cou, and Motu tau.


mobile

→ Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)

→ Kurtöp: མོ་བའིལ (mobail)

→ Persian: موبایل (mobâil)

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).

der

(video games) Synonym of mob (“non-player character”)


deal

→ French: deal

→ German: Deal

→ Lithuanian: dylas

From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ).

cog

I didn’t have a good deal all evening.

I believe it's your deal.

(card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.


mars

az-noun

mars (definite accusative marsı, plural marslar)

marsı (accusative definite)
marslar (plural)
mars (nominative singular)
marslar (nominative plural)
marsı (accusative definite singular)
marsları (accusative definite plural)
marsa (dative singular)
marslara (dative plural)
marsda (locative singular)
marslarda (locative plural)
marsdan (ablative singular)
marslardan (ablative plural)
marsın (definite genitive singular)
marsların (definite genitive plural)
marsım (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
marslarım (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
marsın (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
marsların (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
marsı (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
marsları (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
marsımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
marslarımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
marsınız (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
marslarınız (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
marsı (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marsları (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marsları (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
marsımı (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
marslarımı (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
marsını (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
marslarını (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
marsını (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
marslarını (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
marsımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
marslarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
marsınızı (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
marslarınızı (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
marsını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslarını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslarını (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
marsıma (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
marslarıma (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
marsına (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
marslarına (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
marsına (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
marslarına (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
marsımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
marslarımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
marsınıza (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
marslarınıza (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
marsına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslarına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslarına (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
marsımda (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
marslarımda (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
marsında (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
marslarında (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
marsında (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
marslarında (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
marsımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
marslarımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
marsınızda (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
marslarınızda (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
marsında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslarında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslarında (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
marsımdan (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
marslarımdan (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
marsından (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
marslarından (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
marsından (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
marslarından (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
marsımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
marslarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
marsınızdan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
marslarınızdan (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
marsından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslarından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslarından (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
marsımın (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
marslarımın (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
marsının (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
marslarının (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
marsının (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
marslarının (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
marsımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
marslarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
marsınızın (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
marslarınızın (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
marsının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslarının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslarının (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Marsdan qaçan oyunu aparar!

One who [manages to] escape the gammon will win the game!

(backgammon) gammon (a game in which one player removes all his checkers before his opponent can remove any, and counted as a double win)


stock

en-noun

stock (countable and uncountable, plural stocks or (obsolete) stocken)

stocks (plural)
stocken (obsolete plural)

→ Dutch: stock

desctree

→ French: stock
→ Romanian: stoc
→ Turkish: stok

→ Italian: stock

→ Portuguese: estoque

→ Spanish: stock

From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”), with modern senses mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.

stark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)

(card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.


stock

en-verb

stock (third-person singular simple present stocks, present participle stocking, simple past and past participle stocked)

stocks (present singular third-person)
stocking (participle present)
stocked (participle past)
stocked (past)

(card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.


pencil

Tok Pisin: pensil

→ Bole: pensur

→ Central Dusun: pinsil

→ Central Melanau: pisil

→ Dhivehi: ފަންސުރު (fan̊suru)

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: بِنْسِل (pinsil, binsil) (obsolete)

→ Hausa: fensir

→ Hindi: पेंसिल (pensil), पेन्सिल (pensil)

→ Iban: pinsil

→ Indonesian: pènsil

→ Maguindanao: pinsil

or via Tok Pisin <i class="Latn mention" lang="tpi">pensil</i>

→ Maia: pensil (or via Tok Pisin pensil)

→ Malay: pensel

→ Malayalam: പെൻസിൽ (peṉsil)

→ Marshallese: pinjeļ

→ Pennsylvania German: Bensil

→ Scottish Gaelic: peansail

→ Swahili: penseli

→ Swazi: ípénseli

→ Tagalog: pensil

→ Tausug: pinsil

→ Telugu: పెన్సిలు (pensilu)

→ Welsh: pensil, pensel

→ Xhosa: ípénsile

→ Yoruba: pẹ́ńsù

From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”). Not related to pen.

And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.

power of the pencil
power of the pencil#English

(gambling) Ellipsis of power of the pencil.


add

en-verb

add (third-person singular simple present adds, present participle adding, simple past and past participle added)

adds (present singular third-person)
adding (participle present)
added (participle past)
added (past)
add (infinitive)

From Middle English adden, from Latin addō (“add, give unto”), from ad (“to”) + dō (“give”).

Typically, a hostile mob will add whenever it's within the aggro radius of a player.

(intransitive, video games) To summon minions or reinforcements.

(transitive, Internet, text messaging, video games) To add someone as a friend.


add

When the player has fought the boss for one minute, two adds will arrive from the back and must be dealt with.

(video games) An additional enemy that joins a fight after the primary target.


forecast

From Middle English forecasten, forcasten, equivalent to fore- + cast.
The noun is from Middle English forecast, forcast.


seven

en-noun

seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)

From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”).
Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).

see for numerical forms in other scripts

(countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.


馬

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (馬):
* → Japanese: 馬(ば) (ba)
* → Korean: 마(馬) (ma)
* → Vietnamese: mã (馬, “(xiangqi) horse; (chess) knight”)

desctree

→ Proto-Tai: *maːꟲ (“horse”)
Northern Tai
Bouyei: max
Zhuang: max
Central Tai
Tày: mạ
Nùng: mạ
Nong Zhuang: max
Proto-Southwestern Tai:
Ahom: 𑜉𑜠 (ma), 𑜉𑜡 (mā), 𑜉𑜡𑜠 (māa)
Thai: ม้า (máa)
Northern Thai: ᨾ᩶ᩣ
Lao: ມ້າ (mā)
Lü: ᦙᦱᧉ (maa²)
Tai Dam: ꪣ꫁ꪱ
Shan: မႃႉ (mâ̰a)
Tai Nüa: ᥛᥣᥳ (mȧa)

desc

→ Thai: เบ๊ (bée, “horse”) (via Teochew)

Cursive script (East Asia)
Semi-cursive script

Pictogram (象形) – a horse with its head facing the left, showing a flowing mane in the wind. In the bronze inscriptions, the head was often simplified into an eye (目 (mù)). The legs eventually evolved into four dots (灬 (huǒ), unrelated to 火 (huǒ)).
Contrast with 鹿 (lù, “deer”), which saw a very different development, and 𢊁 (as in 薦／荐 (jiàn)), which is a hybrid: it has the legs of 馬 (灬 (huǒ)) but the head of 鹿 (lù).
“Horse” – from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-m-raŋ ~ s-raŋ. The sense of “big” is derived from “horse”; compare the English uses of horse.
For the insect prefix sense, see 螞／蚂. It has converged with the sense of “big”.
The surname is popularly known to be prevalent among Hui Muslims, where it is likely derived from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad, “Muhammad”), although the surname 馬 itself predates Islam.

马
𫠉
傌
𢒗
𢒠
𢒧
𩡬
𩡮
抹
碼

阿胡拉·馬茲達

Āhúlā Mǎzīdá

阿胡拉·马兹达

Āhúlā Mǎzīdá

馬斯特里赫特

Mǎsītèlǐhètè

(xiangqi) knight; horse: 🩪 (sometimes only on the black side)


馬

馬 (canonical)
馬 (canonical)
uma (romanization)
頭 (counter)

Horse
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Nihon Shoki
Tokyo dialect
Tōkai–Tōsan dialects
ja:馬

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.
The initial m sound was apparently emphasized, possibly similar to *mma, becoming then uma or muma, via processes also seen in the word 梅 (ume, mume, “plum”). However, Pellard simply reconstructs Proto-Japonic *uma and treats the mentioned processes as secondary.
The ma sound denoting "horse" is common to a number of languages of central Asia, where horses were first domesticated, which has led some to speculate about a possible cognate root (but no consensus on any kind of relation exists). Compare Manchu ᠮᠣᡵᡳᠨ (morin, “horse”), Mongolian морь (morʹ, “horse”), Korean 말 (mal, “horse”), Mandarin 馬／马 (mǎ, “horse”), and Proto-Indo-European *márkos (“horse”) and descendants such as Irish marc (“horse”, archaic) or English mare (“female horse”). More at *márkos.


馬

chữ Hán form of mã (“(xiangqi) a knight; any piece labeled with 馬”).


abundance

en-noun

abundance (countable and uncountable, plural abundances)

From Middle English abundaunce, habaundance, from Old French habundance, abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abundō (“to overflow”). Equivalent to abound + -ance. Displaced Old English geniht (“abundance, plenty”).

displaced

(card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.


skill

en-verb

skill (third-person singular simple present skills, present participle skilling, simple past and past participle skilled)

skills (present singular third-person)
skilling (participle present)
skilled (participle past)
skilled (past)

From Middle English skilen (also schillen), partly from Old English scilian (“to separate, part, divide off”); and partly from Old Norse skilja (“to divide, separate”); both from Proto-Germanic *skilōną, *skiljaną (“to divide, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skille (“to separate, discard”), Swedish skilja (“to distinguish, differentiate, part”), Icelandic skilja (“to understand”), Low German schelen (“to make a difference; to be squint-eyed”), Dutch schelen (“to make a difference”).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

(video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.


accumulator

From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate + -or.

The largest payout for a bet on a horse race was $1,627,084 after tax, paid to Britons Anthony Speelman and Nicholas Cowan on their $64 nine-horse accumulator at Santa Anita Racecourse, California, in 1987.

2000, Guinness World Records, Guinness Book of Records 2000, Demco Media, →ISBN:

(gambling) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.


FIFA

(video games, trademark) A series of association football video games developed and released annually by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label.


FIFA

2021 October 18, Víctor Romero, “Adiós a 'el FIFA', hola a 'los FIFAs': la institución anuncia que EA Sports ya no tendrá su exclusividad”, in Marca:


point

en-noun

point (countable and uncountable, plural points)

→ Cantonese: point

→ Indonesian: poin

→ Japanese: ポイント (pointo)

→ Korean: 포인트 (pointeu)

From Middle English poynt, from Old French point m (“dot; minute amount”), from Latin pūnctum (“a hole punched in; a point, puncture”), substantive use of pūnctus m, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, punch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”)); alternatively, from Old French pointe f (“sharp tip”), from Latin pūncta f (past participle). Displaced native Middle English ord (“point”), from Old English ord (“point”). Doublet of pointe, punctum, punt, and punto.

kärki

position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force

decimal point

not used when reading decimal fractions aloud

The one with the most points will win the game.

A small discrete division or individual feature of something.

(sports, video games, board games) A unit of scoring in a game or competition.

punt

This attack deals 320 points of damage.

Defeating the boss grants 60 experience points.

(video games, board games) A unit of various numerical parameters used in a game, e.g. health, experience, stamina, mana.

(backgammon) Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.

kiila

backgammon: one of the twelve triangular positions


point

→ Danish: point

→ Dutch: punt

→ Norwegian Bokmål: poeng

→ Persian: پوئن (pu'an)

→ Polish: pointa

→ Swedish: poäng

→ Turkish: puan

Inherited from Middle French poinct (with orthography modified to reflect the Latin etymology), from Old French point, from Latin punctum.


book

Sranan Tongo: buku

Tok Pisin: buk
→ Rotokas: vuku

→ Chichewa: buku

→ Hawaiian: puke

→ Malagasy: boky

→ Maori: pukapuka (with reduplication)

→ Marshallese: bok

→ Motu: buka

→ Malagasy: boky

→ Shona: bhuku

→ Somali: buugga

i

possibly also from Afrikaans <i class="Latn mention" lang="af">boek</i>

→ Sotho: buka (possibly also from Afrikaans boek)

→ Zulu: ibhuku (possibly also from Afrikaans boek)

From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”). Bookmaker sense by clipping.

have more chins than a Chinese phone book

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.

(gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).

The opposite-colored bishops endgame is usually a book draw.

A book move

out of book

White to move and win. How can he do it? The BK plans a march to h8, eating the f4 pawn en route, for a book draw.

2018 April 6, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Schoolboy Vincent Keymer secures shock triumph at Grenke Open”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2023-01-12:

This seems certain to simplify into a battle between White's king, rook and two pawns against Black's king and rook. In some cases a book draw is possible. But a book win is more likely.

2020, Andrew Soltis, How to Swindle in Chess, Batsford Books, →ISBN:

(chess, uncountable) The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.


turkey

en-noun

turkey (plural turkeys or (obsolete) turkies)

turkeys (plural)
turkies (obsolete plural)

Clipping of turkey-cock and turkey-hen (“(originally) the guinea fowl (family Numididae)”), which was imported to Europe by Turkey merchants through Turkey. The word was then applied to the larger northern American bird Meleagris gallopavo which was brought to Spain by conquistadors in 1523. This transfer of the name may have occurred because the two birds were considered similar to each other, or because the North American turkey was in part introduced through Ottoman territories, or simply to indicate that it was foreign.

like turkeys voting for an early Christmas

(countable, bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.

ターキー

(bowling) act of throwing three strikes in a row


車

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (車):
* → Japanese: 車(しゃ) (sha)
* → Korean: 차(車) (cha), 거(車) (geo)
* → Vietnamese: xa (車)

→ Vietnamese: xe (車, “wheeled vehicle”)

→ Zhuang: ci (“vehicle”)

Pictogram (象形) – originally a carriage seen from above. In the oracle bone script, there were large wheels on both sides and a sun shade on the top. Later, when Chinese characters were written vertically, the wheels on both sides were simply drawn in strokes and the loading area was marked with a 田 (OC *l'iːŋ). Therefore, it is important to understand that the current character, 車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla) is a vertical depiction of a carriage.
Note that 倝 (OC *kaːns) and 朝 (OC *ʔr'ew, *r'ew) are not derived from 車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla).
Perhaps a loan from an Indo-European language because the horse and chariot were introduced into China around 1200 BC from Inner Asia; compare Tocharian A kukäl, Tocharian B kokale (“wagon; cart”) (Mair, 1990, Bauer, 1994), from Proto-Tocharian *kuk(ä)le, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos, a form of *kʷel- (“to turn”). Cognate with English wheel, Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos), Lithuanian kaklas (“neck”), etc.
An older variant survives in Mandarin 軲轆／轱辘 (gūlu, “wheel”) (Bauer, 1994). Alternatively, the word is a derivation by k-prefix from 舁 (OC *la, “to lift”) (Baxter and Sagart, 1998); compare the semantic parallel in Tibetan ཐེག་པ (theg pa, “vehicle; carriage”) (OC *kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas) and 居 (OC *kas) (Schuessler, 2007). Pronunciation 2 is traditionally regarded as the older pronunciation.
The sense of lewd content is derived from 老司機／老司机 (lǎosījī).

cog

(xiangqi) chariot; rook: 🩫 (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


brown

en-noun

brown (countable and uncountable, plural browns)

Bislama: braon

Tok Pisin: braun

→ Welsh: brown

→ Tongan: palauni

From Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún

heinäperhonen

nymphalid butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae

(snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.


donner

From Old French doner, from Latin dōnō, dōnāre (“give a present; bestow, grant”), from dōnum (“gift, present”).


port

Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte. Doublet of porta.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

(curling, bowls) A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.


port

en-verb

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

ports (present singular third-person)
porting (participle present)
ported (participle past)
ported (past)

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

By its tenth week of release, CPH was the best-selling PC game in America. PlayStation and Xbox ports were already in the works, and there was talk of porting it to Nintendo.

2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 259:

(computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform.

كَيَّفَ

computing: to adapt a program so that it works on a different platform


die

die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dying, simple past and past participle died)

dies (present singular third-person)
dying (participle present)
died (participle past)
died (past)
die (infinitive)

→ Vietnamese: đai

From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan and Old Norse deyja, both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt.

I can't believe I just died to a turret!

Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.

2014, S. J. Groves, The Darker Side to Dr Carter, page 437:

(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

(uncommon, nonstandard outside video games) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):

Of course, Nazis are not present in this game. Instead, we have animals that will try to cover you with dirt. As soon as you get too dirty, you will die.

1995, “Slobzone”, in Coming Soon! magazine (video game review):

Oh look, I just died.[…]I missed that jump again! That was dumb! Hey, I just died on the same freakin' Zinger.

2009, Brian Sulpher, 9:15–9:30 from the start, in Onto Doom And Gloom (video game playthrough), via youtube:

Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.

(video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.


die

From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum.
Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).

der

A device for cutting into a specified shape.


board

en-noun

board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)

→ Japanese: ボード (bōdo)

From Middle English bord, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table."

inh

Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.

A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]

2004, Dan Whitehead, Martyn Carroll, Shaun Bebbington, “Future Shocks”, in Your Sinclair, number 94:

You are able to then change a color candy with any candy around the board, similar to the way you are able to with color bomb candies.

2015, Hiddenstuff Entertainment, Candy Crush Soda Saga Game Guide, page 23:

(video games) A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.

(bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.

korttiteline

duplicate bridge: container for holding pre-dealt cards


bone

en-noun

bone (countable and uncountable, plural bones)

From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.

cog

sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh

Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

Let's head to the casino and roll them bones!

The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones.

1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:

(slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.


bone

en-verb

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

bones (present singular third-person)
boning (participle present)
boned (participle past)
boned (past)

“You don’t know!”, Bony echoed. “You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can’t tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater”.

1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48:

(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.


ace

→ Japanese: エース (ēsu)

→ Korean: 에이스 (eiseu)

→ Russian: эйс (ejs)

→ Swedish: ess

(?) → Finnish: ässä

Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”). Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs, or otherwise taking from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) in the sense of "singular".

der

You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), in Famous Country Music Makers, performed by Tex Ritter:

(card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.

(dice games) A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.

[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.

1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King, page 136:

If they got too many aces (dollar bills) or fives or tens, they turned them in to the vault where they became part of the reserve.

1996, Arthur M. Smith, Robert Thomas King, Let's Get Going, page 65:


A

From the letter A of the English pattern playing cards. Various names exist for this symbol in the spoken language.
; Mandarin jiān
; Cantonese jin1


A

19. Ac4xd5, Ab7xd5

1997, Anatoly Karpov, EL AJEDREZ. Aprender y progresar, page 24:

Tae1, Ae6

1998, Benito López Esnaola, Ajedrez a la ciega, page 87:

Veamos un ejemplo: 1. e4, e5; 2. Cf3, Cc6; 3. Ac4, Cd4?

2006, Antonio Lopez Manzano, Joan Segura Vila, “Los Errores en la Apertura. Las celadas.”, in Iniciación al ajedrez, volume 59, page 79:

Let's look at an example: 1. e4, e5; 2. Nf3, Nc6; 3. Bc4, Nd4?


on

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *ana
Old English on
Middle English on
English on
From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-.
Cognate with North Frisian a (“on, in”), Saterland Frisian an (“on, at”), West Frisian oan (“on, at”), Dutch aan (“on, at, to”), Low German an (“on, at”), German an (“to, at, on”), Swedish å (“on, at, in”), Faroese á (“on, onto, in, at”), Icelandic á (“on, in”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, upon”), Albanian në (“in”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish på, Swedish på, Norwegian på, see upon.

etymon

Southern US, Midland US, Philadelphia, Baltimore

If the player fails to hit the ball on, it's a foul.

(snooker, postpositive) Of a ball, being the next in sequence to be potted, according to the rules of the game.

(acting, drama, roleplaying games) Acting in character.


on

All the way around the table, off four cushions, and ... and he's on the black!

(snooker) In a position of being able to pot (a given ball).


on

Coordinate term: off

hab lust auf ne runde zocken, kommst du on?

im down to game 4 a bit, are u coming on?

(Internet slang, especially video games) Clipping of online.


dare

From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-West Germanic *durʀan, from Proto-Germanic *durzaną (“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰórse (“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *dʰers- (“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
Cognates
Cognate with Low German dören, Dutch durven, German turren, Sanskrit दधर्ष (dadhárṣa), but also with Ancient Greek θρασύς (thrasús), Albanian nder, Lithuanian drįsti, Russian дерза́ть (derzátʹ).

inh

When asked truth or dare, she picked dare.

(games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players.


wall

From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.

cog

the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

(roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.


wall

en-verb

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

walls (present singular third-person)
walling (participle present)
walled (participle past)
walled (past)

I walled her. She's low [health].

(video games, slang, transitive) To wallbang.


open

open (third-person singular simple present opens, present participle opening, simple past and past participle opened)

opens (present singular third-person)
opening (participle present)
opened (participle past)
opened (past)
open (infinitive)

From Middle English openen, from Old English openian (“to open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opanōn, from Proto-Germanic *upanōną (“to raise; lift; open”), from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”, adjective).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian eepenje (“to open”), West Frisian iepenje (“to open”), Dutch openen (“to open”), German öffnen (“to open”), Danish åbne (“to open”), Swedish öppna (“to open”), Norwegian Bokmål åpne (“to open”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic opna (“to open”). Related to English up.

der

After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5.

(intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.

Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.

(transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.


map

Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”) and mundus (“world”). See mop for more on the first component. Doublet of mop, nape, and nappe.

I don't want to play this map again!

On top of that, each of Evolve's maps are dim, open arenas with little to interact with besides the occasional hostile organism.

2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica:

(board games, video games) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.


Indian

en-adj

Indian (comparative more Indian, superlative most Indian)

more Indian (comparative)
most Indian (superlative)

From Anglo-Norman indien, Middle French indien, corresponding to Ind + -ian. Applied to inhabitants of the Americas due to an early misconception that the Americas were the eastern end of Asia / the Indies (hence also the designation of Caribbean islands as the West Indies).

(chess) Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.


ten

From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.

The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.

tammá

the cardinal number occurring after 9 and before 11

十

じゅう, jū; とお, tō


ten

en-noun

ten (countable and uncountable, plural tens)

not touch something with a ten-foot pole

(countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.


tempo

Borrowed from Italian tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”). Doublet of tense.

(chess) A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another.

(bridge) The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side.

темпо

bridge: timing advantage of being on lead


tempo

Borrowed from Italian tempo. Doublet of tiempo.


tempo

tempo (indefinite nominative singular)
tempos (genitive indefinite singular)
tempot (definite nominative singular)
tempots (definite genitive singular)
tempon (indefinite nominative plural)
tempons (genitive indefinite plural)
tempona (definite nominative plural)
temponas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Italian tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”).


nine

en:High availability#"Nines"
en:Nines (notation)
nine

From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नवन् (navan, “nine”).

my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas

my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins

my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas

nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine

(card games) A playing card with nine pips.

(weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.

The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.

(baseball) A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).


deuce

From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford to describe a model of car they made in 1932 due to it being a two-seater.

(card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

(dice games) A side of a die with two spots.

(dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.

Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders.

1988 December 25, Eric Peterson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 14:

(Canada, slang) A two-year prison sentence.

The number two.
A two-year prison sentence.

A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.


triangle

/ˈtɹaɪəŋɡəl/

/ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/

/ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English triangle, from Old French triangle, from Latin triangulum, noun use of adjective triangulus (“three-cornered, having three angles”), from trēs (“three”) + angulus (“corner, angle”), equivalent to tri- + angle.

A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

But nothing is said as to what we are to do with the negro when we have cut him off from absolute dominion; we are not informed if we may spread him on the triangles as aforetime;

1868, “The Week”, in The Nation, volume 6, number 149:

(historical, usually in the plural) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound when undergoing corporal punishment.

Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.

After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye.

1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 147:

(rail transport) A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.


bot

Most games offer both single player mode, in which a player competes against computer rivals—bots—and a multiplayer mode, which is a contest among people only.

2012, Philip Hingston, Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:

(video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.

"That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."

2021 March 6, Aydan Conrad (quoted), Wesley Yin-Poole, “Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets new world record with an astonishing 162 kills in a single game”, in Eurogamer:

(video games, slang, derogatory) A supremely unskilled player.


bot

en-verb

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

bots (present singular third-person)
botting (participle present)
botted (participle past)
botted (past)

Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

(video games) To use a bot, or automated program.


bot

Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.

(video games) bot (a player controlled by software)


counterfeit

counterfeit (third-person singular simple present counterfeits, present participle counterfeiting, simple past and past participle counterfeited)

counterfeits (present singular third-person)
counterfeiting (participle present)
counterfeited (participle past)
counterfeited (past)

From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”).

(transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.


war

en-noun

war (countable and uncountable, plural wars)

From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Old Northern French werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period.
Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”),
Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.

cog

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River

Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 painting)

We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.

2004, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven:

(uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.


plant

→ Punjabi: ਪਲਾਂਟ (palāṇṭ)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-plant.wav

From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Proto-West Germanic *plantu, from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan (borrowed through Celtic languages) and planta (directly from Latin).
The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plantāre, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”).

inh

O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.

(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.


six

From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.

Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

In Austria the prisoners rise at five, [...]. There are morning prayers at a quarter to six, after which the prisoners are conducted to work.

1838, Francis Bisset Hawkins, chapter XIII, in Germany: The Spirit of Her History, Literature, Social Condition and National Economy, Illustrated by Reference to Her Physical, Moral and Political Statistics, etc., →OCLC, page 228:

England required 15 from the last over of the regular match. Ben Stokes hit a six and benefited when a throw from the deep hit him and went for four overthrows.

2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:

(cricket) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.

(obsolete) Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.


six

Haitian Creole: sis

Louisiana Creole: sis

Mauritian Creole: sis

Inherited from Middle French six, from Old French sis, six, from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.
The numbers six and dix (“ten”), as well as the pronoun tous (“all”), are remnants of the Old and Middle French pronunciation system where final -s or -x was silent before consonants, pronounced /z/ before vowels, and /s/ in pausa. The only change is that the pausal pronunciation is now invariably used when these words do not precede their referent.


world

whirled (with both the wine–whine merger and fern–fir–fur merger)

whorled (with both mergers, Received Pronunciation only)

From Middle English world, weoreld, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”). Superseded Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”).
Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), Low German Werld (“world”), German Welt (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”).

an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world

the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

Have you reached the boss at the end of the ice world?

There's a hidden warp to the next world down this pipe.

(video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.


five

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.

doublet

Describing a group or set with five elements.

бишәү

describing set or group with five components


five

put two and two together and come up with five

that and twenty-five cents will get you a cup of coffee

Can anyone here change a five?

A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.

All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.

Anything measuring five units, as length.

See you at five.

(basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.


cube

en-verb

cube (third-person singular simple present cubes, present participle cubing, simple past and past participle cubed)

cubes (present singular third-person)
cubing (participle present)
cubed (participle past)
cubed (past)

From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

He likes to cube now and then.


pip

pip The sound of the BBC pips (canonical)
pips (plural)

onomatopoeic

Imitative

I could clearly hear the frequent cataclysms of the upstairs lavatory, and my day began with the pips for the morning news in Charlotte Lawless's kitchen.

One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.


pit

From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties.

he who digs a pit for others falls in himself

(gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.


five hundred

en-noun

five hundred (countable and uncountable, plural five hundreds)

(uncountable, card games) A trick-taking card game with elements of euchre and bridge.


buy

en-verb

buy (third-person singular simple present buys, present participle buying, simple past bought, past participle bought or (archaic, rare, dialectal) boughten)

buys (present singular third-person)
buying (participle present)
bought (past)
bought (participle past)
boughten (archaic dialectal participle past rare)
buy (infinitive)

cheap

antonym(s) of “obtain in exchange for money”

Sranan Tongo: bai

Tok Pisin: baim

From Middle English byen, from Old English bycġan (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan, from Proto-Germanic *bugjaną (“to buy”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to take away, deliver”).
Cognate with Scots buy (“to buy, purchase”), obsolete Dutch beugen (“to buy”), Old Saxon buggian, buggean (“to buy”), Old Norse byggja (“to build, settle”), Gothic 𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bugjan, “to buy”). The spelling with “u” is from the Southwest, while the pronunciation with /aɪ/ is from the East Midlands.

der

that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free

Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff.

(poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.


eight

From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”).

(nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.


next

From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).

inh

gg team, Wanna play next?


knight

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

(chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.

(card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.


knight

en-verb

knight (third-person singular simple present knights, present participle knighting, simple past and past participle knighted)

knights (present singular third-person)
knighting (participle present)
knighted (participle past)
knighted (past)

From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.

(chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.


green

en-noun

green (countable and uncountable, plural greens)

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Germanic *-į̄
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *grōnī
Old English grēne
Middle English grene
English green
From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow.
See also North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn.
The sense "obscene, pornographic, sexual" in the Philippines is from a calque of Spanish verde.

der

(bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.

(snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.


chess

en-noun

chess (usually uncountable, plural chesses)

From Middle English ches, chesse, from Old French eschés, plural of eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king [in chess]”), from Classical Persian شاه (šāh, “shah, king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /šāh/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/).
Compare German Schach and Italian scacchi. Compare French échecs (“chess”) and its descendants: Catalan escacs and Dutch schaak. More at check and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”).

der

A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

象棋

generic, which includes various varieties of chess

ludus scacchorum (in a Medieval Manuscript: ludus schacorum)


chess

Uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.

Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].

2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 59:

(now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.


chess

Compare French châssis (“a framework of carpentry”).

cog

the balks are laid and covered with chesses to within 1 foot of the trestle

1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer:

ach chess consists of three planks.

1885, Edward S. Farrow, Farrow's Military Encyclopedia; A Dictionary of Military Knowledge:

(military, chiefly in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.


bank

en-noun

bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)

→ Albanian: bankë

→ Assamese: বেংক (beṅko)

→ Bengali: ব্যাংক (bêṅko)

→ Bislama: bang

→ Bole: banki

→ Burmese: ဘဏ် (bhan)

→ Chichewa: banki

→ Fijian: baqe

→ Gujarati: બેંક (beṅk)

→ Hausa: banki

→ Hawaiian: panakō

→ Hindi: बैंक (baiṅk)

→ Indonesian: bank

→ Japanese: バンク (banku)

→ Kamba: mbengi

→ Kannada: ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ (byāṅk)

→ Kikuyu: bengi

→ Luhya: ebank

→ Maori: pēke

→ Marathi: बँक (bĕṅka)

→ Meru: mbengi

→ Nepali: बैंक (baiṅka)

→ Punjabi: ਬੈਂਕ (baiṅk)

→ Swahili: benki

→ Tamil: வங்கி (vaṅki)

→ Telugu: బ్యాంకు (byāṅku)

→ Thai: แบงก์ (bɛ́ng)

→ Tongan: pangikē

→ Welsh: banc

→ Urdu: بینک (baiṅk)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian bancabor.
Middle French banqueder.
English bank
From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.

der

(gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.


bank

From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).

(pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.


bank

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

(games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling


bank

nl-noun

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

banken (plural)
bankje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: bank

→ Aukan: banku

→ Caribbean Hindustani: bánk

→ Malay: bank

Indonesian: bank

→ Central Dusun: bank

→ Central Melanau: bank

→ Makasar: bank

→ Javanese: bang

→ Sundanese: bank

→ Papiamentu: banki (dated)

→ Saramaccan: bánku

→ Sranan Tongo: bangi

→ Trió: banku

→ West Frisian: bank

From Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz, related to Etymology 1 above.

(games, gambling) the bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling


bank

bankok (plural)
bank (nominative singular)
bankok (nominative plural)
bankot (accusative singular)
bankokat (accusative plural)
banknak (dative singular)
bankoknak (dative plural)
bankkal (instrumental singular)
bankokkal (instrumental plural)
bankért (causal-final singular)
bankokért (causal-final plural)
bankká (singular translative)
bankokká (plural translative)
bankig (singular terminative)
bankokig (plural terminative)
bankként (essive-formal singular)
bankokként (essive-formal plural)
bankban (inessive singular)
bankokban (inessive plural)
bankon (singular superessive)
bankokon (plural superessive)
banknál (adessive singular)
bankoknál (adessive plural)
bankba (illative singular)
bankokba (illative plural)
bankra (singular sublative)
bankokra (plural sublative)
bankhoz (allative singular)
bankokhoz (allative plural)
bankból (elative singular)
bankokból (elative plural)
bankról (delative singular)
bankokról (delative plural)
banktól (ablative singular)
bankoktól (ablative plural)
banké (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
bankoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
bankéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
bankokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
bankom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
bankjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
bankod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
bankjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
bankja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
bankjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
bankunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
bankjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
bankotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
bankjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
bankjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
bankjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

(gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)


bank

bank (nominative singular)
banki (nominative plural)
banku (genitive singular)
banków (genitive plural)
bankowi (dative singular)
bankom (dative plural)
bank (accusative singular)
banki (accusative plural)
bankiem (instrumental singular)
bankami (instrumental plural)
banku (locative singular)
bankach (locative plural)
banku (singular vocative)
banki (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English bank, French banque, German Bank, ultimately from Lombardic bank.

trzymać bank

(gambling, card games) bank (a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw)


Quaker

Quake + -er, but likely inspired by the original noun.

(video games) One who plays any Quake games.


jack

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jegue

→ European Portuguese: jaque

Transferative use of the personal name Jack.
(cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10.

náłbiil bijaadbee dahnádidlohí

device for raising and supporting a heavy object

jekker

military: coarse medieval coat of defense

(obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.

(card games, originally colloquial) The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.

like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the jack, by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it

1822, Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak:

(bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.

(games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.


jack

The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit?

2001 October 8, Ray Dames, “Re: McGwire's Year”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):

Me three. I never have quite understood all the "three true outcomes" fetish around here. I mean, I know that building an offense around walks and 3-run jacks embodies the Sabermetric Virtues, and especially in today's conditions that's the way to win, but man, it sure leads to some slow, boring games.

2002 April 18, Perry, “Re: To all you Oakland A's fans...”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):

3-run jacks are just another tool in a team's chest. The goal is to make the playoffs, then win at least one more game than your opponent each round. And repeat next year, and the year after that, and...

2004 January 18, Terrell Miller, “Re: Does playing for the 3-run home run really help you win championships?”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):


mikado

en-noun

mikado (countable and uncountable, plural mikados)

Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) + 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).

com

A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack.


mikado

nl-noun

mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)

mikado's (plural)
mikadootje (diminutive neuter)


pink

en-noun

pink (countable and uncountable, plural pinks)

Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked.

Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink.

(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.


king

Tok Pisin: king

desc

⇒ American Sign Language: K@Shoulder K@Abdomen

→ Burmese: ကင် (kang)

→ Isubu: kinge

→ Japanese: キング (kingu)

→ Korean: 킹 (king)

→ Maori: kingi

→ Marshallese: kiin̄

→ Thai: คิง (king)

From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez. Cognate with Scots keeng (“king”), North Frisian köning (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Norwegian konge, Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Polish ksiądz (“priest”), Russian князь (knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonic кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ), Romanian chinez, Finnish kuningas (“king”), Estonian kuningas, Ingrian kunigas, Karelian kuninkas, Livvi kuńingas, Ludian kuńingas, Veps kuningaz, Võro kuning and Votic kunikaz. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”).
The verb is inherited from Middle English kyngen, *kingen (“To perform the duties of a king”), itself from the noun king, kyng.

Audio — the king

акрал

a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

(chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.

(card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.

heer

a playing card with the image of a king in it


king

head

king (nominative plural kinges, also the early forms kingas or kingæs)

kinges (nominative plural)
the early forms kingas (also)
kingæs (also)

English: king (see there for further descendants)

Scots: keeng, king

Yola: kinge, king

Inherited from the Old English cyning, from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz. The forms kug (attested in the compounds kugdom, kuglond, and kugriche) and gug (attested in the compound guglond) show the influence of the Old Norse konungr, whence they borrow their root vowel. The early forms featuring syncope (chinge, chinȝ, cing, and cinȝ) may have long ī.


kill

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

cog

confirmed kills

A flying ace is usually one with five or more confirmed kills.

The result of killing; that which has been killed.

(military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.


head

en-noun

head (countable and uncountable, plural heads or head)

→ Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)

Sranan Tongo: ede

Aukan: ede

Saramaccan: hédi

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput-
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput. The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-, the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).

頭

つぶり, tsuburi, つぃぶる, tsiburu, つぃぶるぃ, tsiburi

pää

principal operative part of a machine or tool

have one's head screwed on the right way

know one's head from a hole in the ground

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

would lose one's head if it wasn't attached

would lose one's head if it wasn't bolted on

would lose one's head if it wasn't glued on

would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on

would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on

would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on

would lose one's head if it weren't attached

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

you can't put a wise head on young shoulders

(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

(billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.


tick

From Middle English tek (“light touch, tap”).

(video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.

(gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.


X

From the Etruscan letter 𐌗 (x, “ex”), from the Ancient Greek letter Χ (Kh, “chi”), created ex nihilo.

Coordinate term: / (spare)


midnight

en-noun

midnight (countable and uncountable, plural midnights)

From Middle English midnight, from Old English midniht, from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- + night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).

cog

(dice games) Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”)


advertisement

en-noun

advertisement (countable and uncountable, plural advertisements)

From Middle French advertissement (“statement calling attention”), compare French avertissement (“warning”). See advertise. Equivalent to advertise + -ment.

uder

The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.

1947, On Gin Rummy: An All-American Roundup, page 121:

(card games) In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.


color

en-noun

color (countable and uncountable, plural colors)

A Dictionary of the English Language
Noah Webster
Samuel Johnson
Webster's Dictionary
color

From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color.
Displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. Doublet of couleur.
The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).

колори́т

interest, especially in a selective area

(snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.


color

ca-noun

color m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural colors)

Inherited from Latin colōrem. Compare Occitan color, French couleur.


color

Inherited from Old Spanish color, from Latin colōrem, singular accusative of color.


coin

en-noun

coin (countable and uncountable, plural coins)

desc

→ Cantonese: coins (kon¹ si²) (from the plural noun form)

→ Japanese: コイン (koin)

From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (“cornerstone”). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet (whence modern English mint), which was derived from Latin monēta.

der

(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

kolikko

one of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit


age

en-noun

age (countable and uncountable, plural ages)

From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge.
Displaced native Old English ieldu.

вре́мя

used in its plural form времена (vremena)

век

especially to indicate particular century

(countable, poker) The entitlement of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.


three

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English thre, threo, thrie, thri, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Doublet of tres and trey.
Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treîs), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.

Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

Okay, on three, we open the door and jump on the rope. One, two…
Wait, wait! Do we go on three? Or do we go on “go”?
Three! Who said anything about “go”?

2003 April 7, Michelle Lamoreaux, Robert Lamoreaux, “A Spy is Born Part II”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Clover (Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Andrea Taylor), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:

Why should she care? One…two…
Do we shoot on three?
Yes on three. Like one, two, three, shoot.

2011 October 18, Paul Dini, Paul Crocker, Sefton Hill, Batman: Arkham City, spoken by Joker thugs, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, via Rocksteady Studios:

A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).

Describing a set or group with three elements.

өсәү

describing set or group with three components


three

shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations

Put all the threes in a separate container.

Anything measuring three units, as length.

It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(basketball) Abbreviation of three-pointer.

kolmonen

basketball: abbreviation of three-pointer


general

en-noun

general (countable and uncountable, plural generals)

From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin generālis, from genus (“class, kind”) + -ālis (“-al”); thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, generic.

(xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that is moved one point orthogonally and confined within the palace.


two

→ Russian: туз (tuz, “two-oar dinghy”)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English two, twa, from Old English twā, feminine and neuter of twēġen (whence twain), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
Cognate with Scots twa (“two”); North Frisian tou, tuu (“two”); Saterland Frisian twäin, two (“two”); West Frisian twa (“two”); Dutch twee (“two”); Low German twee, twei (“two”); German zwei, zwo (“two”); Danish and Norwegian to (“two”); Swedish två, tu (“two”); Icelandic tvö (“two”); Faroese tvey (“two”); Latin duō (“two”); Ancient Greek δύο (dúo, “two”); Irish dhá (“two”); Lithuanian dù (“two”); Russian два (dva, “two”); Albanian dy (“two”); Old Armenian երկու (erku, “two”); Sanskrit द्व (dvá, “two”); Tocharian A wu, Tocharian B wi. Doublet of duo. See also twain.


four

four (countable and uncountable, plural fours)

Arabic numerals
Chinese numerals
Greek numerals
Roman numerals
four

non-rhotic, dough–door merger, African-American Vernacular

From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.
Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).

четворка

rowing: four-man sweep racing shell or its crew

(cricket, countable) An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.


quadruple

Ce tirage permettait plusieurs quadruples.

J’ai perdu une douzaine de points sur un difficile "mosaique" en quadruple.

I lost a dozen points on a difficult quadruple "mosaic".

(Scrabble) a move whose score is multiplied by four

Le quadruple en colonne 5 reste ouvert avec la séquence "ena" ou "ene".

The quadruple on column 5 remains open with the sequence "ena" or "ene".

(Scrabble) the area on the board where such a move is possible


love

Now widely believed (due to historical written record) to be from the idea that when one does a thing “for love” it is for no monetary gain, the word “love” thus implying "nothing".
The former assumption that it had originated from French l’œuf (literally “the egg”), due to its shape, has largely been discredited and is no longer widely accepted. However, the apparent similarity of the shape of an egg to a zero has inspired similar analogies, such as the use of duck (reputed to be short for duck's egg) for a zero score at cricket, and goose egg for "zero".

So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.

The next day Agassi came back from two sets to love down to beat Courier in five sets.

2013, Paul McNamee, Game Changer: My Tennis Life:

(racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.


it

Received Pronunciation, General American, GenAus

From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Low German it (“it”), German es (“it”). Compare also Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), Latin cis (“on this”), hic (“this”). More at he.

Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the "it" bag.

2007 September, Vibe, volume 15, number 9, page 202:

With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.

2010, David Germain, Hilarious ‘Kick-Ass’ delivers bloody fun, Associated Press:

These Italian made sneakers quickly became an it shoe and the trend is not going anywhere any time soon!

2021 October 4, Robert P, “Are Golden Goose Sneakers Worth It? My Honest Review Of Golden Goose Sneakers”, in Gold Talk Club, archived from the original on 2024-07-15:

(colloquial) Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.


action

action (countable and uncountable, plural actions)

→ Arabic: أَكْشِن (ʔakšin)

→ Bulgarian: екшън (ekšǎn)

→ German: Action

→ Irish: aicsean

→ Hebrew: אקשן (akshn)

→ Japanese: アクション (akushon)

→ Korean: 액션 (aeksyeon)

→ Russian: экшн (ekšn)

From Middle English accion, from Old French aucion, acciun, from Latin āctiō(n) (“act of doing or making”), from āctus + action suffix -iō(n), perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti; see also act, active. By surface analysis, act + -ion.