abada

From Portuguese abada (“female rhinoceros”), from Malay badak (“rhinoceros”).

It is certain that the unicorn is not to be confounded with the abada, about which they usually dispute; this one may see by the difference of their names, as well as by the difference of their body and parts […]

1864, William Winwood Reade, Savage Africa, page 373:

(mythology) A herbivorous mythological creature of the Central African Congo, similar to the unicorn. Its horns are said to be an antidote to poisons, and it has brown fur, two crooked horns and a boar's tail.


shapeshift

en-verb

shapeshift (third-person singular simple present shapeshifts, present participle shapeshifting, simple past and past participle shapeshifted)

shapeshifts (present singular third-person)
shapeshifting (participle present)
shapeshifted (participle past)
shapeshifted (past)

Probably a back-formation from shapeshifter.

Journey in exactly the same way as you did to shapeshift into your power animal except, this time, set your intention to shapeshift into a named ancestor.

2010, Mike Williams, Follow the Shaman's Call: An Ancient Path for Modern Lives, page 91:

I can't shapeshift Zane, I only look like this I always have.

But to embed oneself in an irregular and unpredictable food supply as mycelium does, one must be able to shapeshift.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 57:

(biology, fantasy, mythology, intransitive) To change one's shape or form (into another) through often magical means, normally applied only to living beings.


Thanatos

(Greek mythology) The god of death (specifically of a peaceful death), and twin brother of Hypnos (god of sleep); the Greek counterpart of Mors.


van

vanen (definite singular)
vaner (indefinite plural)
vanar (indefinite plural)
vanene (definite plural)
vanane (definite plural)


Cuba

la-proper noun

Cuba f sg (genitive Cubae); first declension

Cubae (genitive)
Cuba (nominative singular)
Cubae (genitive singular)
Cubae (dative singular)
Cubam (accusative singular)
Cubā (ablative singular)
Cuba (singular vocative)

(Roman mythology) The goddess who protects the lying down of children


sasquatch

Borrowed from Halkomelem sásq’ets (“hairy man”).

bor+

(cryptozoology) A large hairy humanoid creature of western North America.


Achilles

Borrowed from Latin Achillēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!

1715, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, chapter 1, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.

1910, Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter 3, in William A. Haussmann, transl., edited by Oscar Levy, The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 1), Edinburgh, London: T. N. Foulis, page 36:

In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.

2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 153:

(Greek mythology) A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.


Achilles

From English Achilles, borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).


Achilles

csb-proper noun

Achilles m pers (related adjective achillesowi)

(uncountable, Greek mythology) Achilles (mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp)


Achilles

la-proper noun

Achillēs m sg (genitive Achillis); third declension

Achillēs (canonical masculine singular)
Achillis (genitive)
Achillēs (nominative singular)
Achillis (genitive singular)
Achillī (dative singular)
Achillem (accusative singular)
Achille (ablative singular)
Achillēs (singular vocative)

[äˈkʰɪlːʲeːs̠]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).


Achilles

pl-prop

Achilles m pers (related adjective achillesowy)

achillesowy (adjective)
Achilles (nominative singular)
Achillesowie (nominative plural)
Achillesi (nominative plural)
Achillesa (genitive singular)
Achillesów (genitive plural)
Achillesowi (dative singular)
Achillesom (dative plural)
Achillesa (accusative singular)
Achillesów (accusative plural)
Achillesem (instrumental singular)
Achillesami (instrumental plural)
Achillesie (locative singular)
Achillesach (locative plural)
Achillesie (singular vocative)
Achillesowie (plural vocative)
Achillesi (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Achillēs. Doublet of Achil.


Achilles

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).


phoenix

en-noun

phoenix (plural phoenix or phoenixes or phoenices)

phoenix (plural)
phoenixes (plural)
phoenices (plural)

From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian bnw (boinu, “grey heron”). Doublet of Bennu. The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.

burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 19”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

(mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.

(Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.


phoenix

la-noun

phoenīx f (genitive phoenīcis); third declension

phoenīx (canonical feminine)
phoenīcis (genitive)
phoenīx (nominative singular)
phoenīcēs (nominative plural)
phoenīcis (genitive singular)
phoenīcium (genitive plural)
phoenīcī (dative singular)
phoenīcibus (dative plural)
phoenīcem (accusative singular)
phoenīcēs (accusative plural)
phoenīcīs (accusative plural)
phoenīce (ablative singular)
phoenīcibus (ablative plural)
phoenīx (singular vocative)
phoenīcēs (plural vocative)


hell

en-verb

hell (third-person singular simple present hells, present participle helling, simple past and past participle helled)

hells (present singular third-person)
helling (participle present)
helled (participle past)
helled (past)

From Middle English helle, from Old English hell, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“concealed place, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, save”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälle (“hell”), West Frisian hel (“hell”), Dutch hel (“hell”), German Low German Hell (“hell”), German Hölle (“hell”), Norwegian helvete (“hell”), Icelandic hel (“the abode of the dead, death”). Also related to the Hel of Germanic mythology. See also hele.

cog

To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.


hell

hell (nominative singular)
hella (nominative plural)
helle (nominative plural)
helle (accusative singular)
hella (accusative plural)
helle (accusative plural)
helle (genitive singular)
hella (genitive plural)
helle (dative singular)
hellum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: helle, hel, hell, hælle
English: hell, Hell
Scots: hell, Hell

From Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”).
Compare German hell (“light”).


Jupiter

From Latin Iūpiter (“father Jove”), from Proto-Italic *djous patēr (literally “sky father”) (cognate with Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “father Zeus”)), from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of Dyaus Pita.

der

(Roman mythology) The King of the Gods, also called Jove. Equivalent to the Greek Zeus, Jupiter was one of the children of Saturn. As supreme god of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the god of thunder, lightning, and storms, and appropriately called the god of light and sky.


Jupiter

Jupiter (nominative singular)
Jupitera (genitive singular)
Jupiterovi (dative singular)
Jupiteru (dative singular)
Jupitera (accusative singular)
Jupitere (singular vocative)
Jupiterovi (locative singular)
Jupiteru (locative singular)
Jupiterem (instrumental singular)


Jupiter

Afrikaans: Jupiter

→ Papiamentu: Yüpitèr

From Middle Dutch jupiter, from Latin Iūpiter.


Jupiter

Jupiter (nominative singular)
Jupiterit (nominative plural)
Jupiter (accusative nominative singular)
Jupiterit (accusative nominative plural)
Jupiterin (accusative genitive singular)
Jupiterit (accusative genitive plural)
Jupiterin (genitive singular)
Jupiterien (genitive plural)
Jupitereiden (genitive plural)
Jupitereitten (genitive plural)
Jupiteria (partitive singular)
Jupitereita (partitive plural)
Jupitereja (partitive plural)
Jupiterissa (inessive singular)
Jupitereissa (inessive plural)
Jupiterista (elative singular)
Jupitereista (elative plural)
Jupiteriin (illative singular)
Jupitereihin (illative plural)
Jupiterilla (adessive singular)
Jupitereilla (adessive plural)
Jupiterilta (ablative singular)
Jupitereilta (ablative plural)
Jupiterille (allative singular)
Jupitereille (allative plural)
Jupiterina (essive singular)
Jupitereina (essive plural)
Jupiteriksi (singular translative)
Jupitereiksi (plural translative)
Jupiteritta (abessive singular)
Jupitereitta (abessive plural)
Jupiterein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Jupiterini (nominative singular)
Jupiterini (nominative plural)
Jupiterini (accusative nominative singular)
Jupiterini (accusative nominative plural)
Jupiterini (accusative genitive singular)
Jupiterini (accusative genitive plural)
Jupiterini (genitive singular)
Jupiterieni (genitive plural)
Jupitereideni (genitive plural)
Jupitereitteni (genitive plural)
Jupiteriani (partitive singular)
Jupitereitani (partitive plural)
Jupiterejani (partitive plural)
Jupiterissani (inessive singular)
Jupitereissani (inessive plural)
Jupiteristani (elative singular)
Jupitereistani (elative plural)
Jupiteriini (illative singular)
Jupitereihini (illative plural)
Jupiterillani (adessive singular)
Jupitereillani (adessive plural)
Jupiteriltani (ablative singular)
Jupitereiltani (ablative plural)
Jupiterilleni (allative singular)
Jupitereilleni (allative plural)
Jupiterinani (essive singular)
Jupitereinani (essive plural)
Jupiterikseni (singular translative)
Jupitereikseni (plural translative)
Jupiterittani (abessive singular)
Jupitereittani (abessive plural)
Jupitereineni (comitative plural)
Jupiterisi (nominative singular)
Jupiterisi (nominative plural)
Jupiterisi (accusative nominative singular)
Jupiterisi (accusative nominative plural)
Jupiterisi (accusative genitive singular)
Jupiterisi (accusative genitive plural)
Jupiterisi (genitive singular)
Jupiteriesi (genitive plural)
Jupitereidesi (genitive plural)
Jupitereittesi (genitive plural)
Jupiteriasi (partitive singular)
Jupitereitasi (partitive plural)
Jupiterejasi (partitive plural)
Jupiterissasi (inessive singular)
Jupitereissasi (inessive plural)
Jupiteristasi (elative singular)
Jupitereistasi (elative plural)
Jupiteriisi (illative singular)
Jupitereihisi (illative plural)
Jupiterillasi (adessive singular)
Jupitereillasi (adessive plural)
Jupiteriltasi (ablative singular)
Jupitereiltasi (ablative plural)
Jupiterillesi (allative singular)
Jupitereillesi (allative plural)
Jupiterinasi (essive singular)
Jupitereinasi (essive plural)
Jupiteriksesi (singular translative)
Jupitereiksesi (plural translative)
Jupiterittasi (abessive singular)
Jupitereittasi (abessive plural)
Jupitereinesi (comitative plural)
Jupiterimme (nominative singular)
Jupiterimme (nominative plural)
Jupiterimme (accusative nominative singular)
Jupiterimme (accusative nominative plural)
Jupiterimme (accusative genitive singular)
Jupiterimme (accusative genitive plural)
Jupiterimme (genitive singular)
Jupiteriemme (genitive plural)
Jupitereidemme (genitive plural)
Jupitereittemme (genitive plural)
Jupiteriamme (partitive singular)
Jupitereitamme (partitive plural)
Jupiterejamme (partitive plural)
Jupiterissamme (inessive singular)
Jupitereissamme (inessive plural)
Jupiteristamme (elative singular)
Jupitereistamme (elative plural)
Jupiteriimme (illative singular)
Jupitereihimme (illative plural)
Jupiterillamme (adessive singular)
Jupitereillamme (adessive plural)
Jupiteriltamme (ablative singular)
Jupitereiltamme (ablative plural)
Jupiterillemme (allative singular)
Jupitereillemme (allative plural)
Jupiterinamme (essive singular)
Jupitereinamme (essive plural)
Jupiteriksemme (singular translative)
Jupitereiksemme (plural translative)
Jupiterittamme (abessive singular)
Jupitereittamme (abessive plural)
Jupitereinemme (comitative plural)
Jupiterinne (nominative singular)
Jupiterinne (nominative plural)
Jupiterinne (accusative nominative singular)
Jupiterinne (accusative nominative plural)
Jupiterinne (accusative genitive singular)
Jupiterinne (accusative genitive plural)
Jupiterinne (genitive singular)
Jupiterienne (genitive plural)
Jupitereidenne (genitive plural)
Jupitereittenne (genitive plural)
Jupiterianne (partitive singular)
Jupitereitanne (partitive plural)
Jupiterejanne (partitive plural)
Jupiterissanne (inessive singular)
Jupitereissanne (inessive plural)
Jupiteristanne (elative singular)
Jupitereistanne (elative plural)
Jupiteriinne (illative singular)
Jupitereihinne (illative plural)
Jupiterillanne (adessive singular)
Jupitereillanne (adessive plural)
Jupiteriltanne (ablative singular)
Jupitereiltanne (ablative plural)
Jupiterillenne (allative singular)
Jupitereillenne (allative plural)
Jupiterinanne (essive singular)
Jupitereinanne (essive plural)
Jupiteriksenne (singular translative)
Jupitereiksenne (plural translative)
Jupiterittanne (abessive singular)
Jupitereittanne (abessive plural)
Jupitereinenne (comitative plural)
Jupiterinsa (nominative singular)
Jupiterinsa (nominative plural)
Jupiterinsa (accusative nominative singular)
Jupiterinsa (accusative nominative plural)
Jupiterinsa (accusative genitive singular)
Jupiterinsa (accusative genitive plural)
Jupiterinsa (genitive singular)
Jupiteriensa (genitive plural)
Jupitereidensa (genitive plural)
Jupitereittensa (genitive plural)
Jupiteriaan (partitive singular)
Jupiteriansa (partitive singular)
Jupitereitaan (partitive plural)
Jupiterejaan (partitive plural)
Jupitereitansa (partitive plural)
Jupiterejansa (partitive plural)
Jupiterissaan (inessive singular)
Jupiterissansa (inessive singular)
Jupitereissaan (inessive plural)
Jupitereissansa (inessive plural)
Jupiteristaan (elative singular)
Jupiteristansa (elative singular)
Jupitereistaan (elative plural)
Jupitereistansa (elative plural)
Jupiteriinsa (illative singular)
Jupitereihinsa (illative plural)
Jupiterillaan (adessive singular)
Jupiterillansa (adessive singular)
Jupitereillaan (adessive plural)
Jupitereillansa (adessive plural)
Jupiteriltaan (ablative singular)
Jupiteriltansa (ablative singular)
Jupitereiltaan (ablative plural)
Jupitereiltansa (ablative plural)
Jupiterilleen (allative singular)
Jupiterillensa (allative singular)
Jupitereilleen (allative plural)
Jupitereillensa (allative plural)
Jupiterinaan (essive singular)
Jupiterinansa (essive singular)
Jupitereinaan (essive plural)
Jupitereinansa (essive plural)
Jupiterikseen (singular translative)
Jupiteriksensa (singular translative)
Jupitereikseen (plural translative)
Jupitereiksensa (plural translative)
Jupiterittaan (abessive singular)
Jupiterittansa (abessive singular)
Jupitereittaan (abessive plural)
Jupitereittansa (abessive plural)
Jupitereineen (comitative plural)
Jupitereinensa (comitative plural)


Jupiter

de-proper noun

Jupiter m (proper noun, strong, genitive Jupiters or Jupiter)

Jupiters (genitive)
Jupiter (genitive)
Jupiter (nominative singular)
Jupiters (genitive singular)
Jupiter (genitive singular)
Jupiter (dative singular)
Jupiter (accusative singular)

Learned borrowing from Latin Iūpiter (“Jupiter”).

Pluto

traditionally; by the IAU founded in 1919 only till 2006


Jupiter

Jupiter (nominative singular)
Jupiterek (nominative plural)
Jupitert (accusative singular)
Jupitereket (accusative plural)
Jupiternek (dative singular)
Jupitereknek (dative plural)
Jupiterrel (instrumental singular)
Jupiterekkel (instrumental plural)
Jupiterért (causal-final singular)
Jupiterekért (causal-final plural)
Jupiterré (singular translative)
Jupiterekké (plural translative)
Jupiterig (singular terminative)
Jupiterekig (plural terminative)
Jupiterként (essive-formal singular)
Jupiterekként (essive-formal plural)
Jupiterben (inessive singular)
Jupiterekben (inessive plural)
Jupiteren (singular superessive)
Jupitereken (plural superessive)
Jupiternél (adessive singular)
Jupitereknél (adessive plural)
Jupiterbe (illative singular)
Jupiterekbe (illative plural)
Jupiterre (singular sublative)
Jupiterekre (plural sublative)
Jupiterhez (allative singular)
Jupiterekhez (allative plural)
Jupiterből (elative singular)
Jupiterekből (elative plural)
Jupiterről (delative singular)
Jupiterekről (delative plural)
Jupitertől (ablative singular)
Jupiterektől (ablative plural)
Jupiteré (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Jupitereké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
Jupiteréi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Jupiterekéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
Jupiterem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Jupitereim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
Jupitered (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Jupitereid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
Jupitere (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Jupiterei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
Jupiterünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Jupitereink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
Jupiteretek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Jupitereitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
Jupiterük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
Jupitereik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


Jupiter

Jupiter (nominative singular)
Jupitera (genitive singular)
Jupiterowi (dative singular)
Jupitera (accusative singular)
Jupiterem (instrumental singular)
Jupiterze (locative singular)
Jupiterze (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Iuppiter, from Proto-Italic *djowe-, ablative case of *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Doublet of Jowisz and Zeus.

(Roman mythology) Jupiter (the chief god, the Roman god of the sky and lightning)


Jupiter

Jùpiter (canonical masculine)
Ју̀питер (Cyrillic)
Jupiter (nominative singular)
Jupitera (genitive singular)
Jupiteru (dative singular)
Jupiter (accusative singular)
Jupitera (accusative singular)
Jupiteru (singular vocative)
Jupiteru (locative singular)
Jupiterem (instrumental singular)


Jupiter

sk-proper noun

Jupiter m pers (genitive singular Jupitera, declension pattern of chlap)

Jupitera (genitive singular)
chlap (declension-pattern-of)
Jupiter (nominative singular-only)
Jupitera (genitive singular-only)
Jupiterovi (dative singular-only)
Jupitera (accusative singular-only)
Jupiterovi (locative singular-only)
Jupiterom (instrumental singular-only)

Derived from Latin Iūpiter (“father Jove”).


Jupiter

Jȗpitər (canonical inanimate masculine)
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Júpiter (nominative singular)
Júpitra (genitive singular)
Júpitru (dative singular)
Júpiter (accusative singular)
Júpitru (locative singular)
Júpitrom (instrumental singular)
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Júpiter (nominative singular)
Júpitra (genitive singular)
Júpitru (dative singular)
Júpitra (accusative singular)
Júpitru (locative singular)
Júpitrom (instrumental singular)


wij

wij (nominative singular)
wije (nominative plural)
wija (genitive singular)
wijów (genitive plural)
wijowi (dative singular)
wijom (dative plural)
wija (accusative singular)
wije (accusative plural)
wijem (instrumental singular)
wijami (instrumental plural)
wiju (locative singular)
wijach (locative plural)
wiju (singular vocative)
wije (plural vocative)

Probably related to Ukrainian вій (vij), which refers to the same creature.

(Slavic mythology) viy (creature with gigantic eyelids and eyelashes from hell who kills by looking at people)


banshee

desc

→ Arabic: بَانْشِي (bānšī)

→ Arabic: بَانْشِي (bānšī)

→ Catalan: banshee

→ Dutch: banshee

→ Esperanto: banŝio

→ Finnish: banshee

→ French: banshee, banshie

→ German: Banshee

→ Japanese: バンシー (banshī)

→ Korean: 반시 (bansi)

→ Northern Kurdish: banşî

→ Portuguese: banshee

→ Russian: ба́нши (bánši), банши́ (banší), ба́ньши (bánʹši), баньши́ (banʹší)

→ Spanish: banshee

Borrowed from Irish bean sí, from Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). The term banshee entered English in 1771.

der

Late had he heard, in prophet's dream, / The fatal Ben-Shie's boding scream […].

1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.VII:

(Scotland, Ireland, folklore) A female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death.


banshee

(Irish mythology) banshee (a female spirit who warns of impending death)


Victoria

en-proper noun

Victoria (countable and uncountable, plural Victorias or Victoriae)

From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). Doublet of Vitória. The given name can also be analyzed as the male name Victor + -ia. The places were named in honour of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

(Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike.


gripe

English: grip (obsolete)

Borrowed from Old French gripe, from Latin gryps, grȳphus, from Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps).

A griffin (mythological beast; also in heraldry).


humo

Inherited from Chagatai [Term?], from Classical Persian هُما (humā) and earlier هُمای (humāy), from Middle Persian [script needed] (hwmʾy /humāy/).


青

Unknown. The reading might be an obscure term from Old Japanese or dialect. The use of the character 青 arises from its 宋音(そうおん) (sōon, “Song-dynasty pronunciation”).

ja-r

(rare, archaic, mythology) a beast that looks like a weasel, and is said to have lived in present-day Fukuoka and Yamaguchi prefectures

(rare, archaic, mythology) a beast that looks like a wolf, and is said to have appeared around Mount Yoshino


as

From Old Norse áss, singular of æsir (“the Norse gods”).


larva

la-noun

lārva f (genitive lārvae); first declension

lārva (canonical feminine)
lārvae (genitive)
lārva (nominative singular)
lārvae (nominative plural)
lārvae (genitive singular)
lārvārum (genitive plural)
lārvae (dative singular)
lārvīs (dative plural)
lārvam (accusative singular)
lārvās (accusative plural)
lārvā (ablative singular)
lārvīs (ablative plural)
lārva (singular vocative)
lārvae (plural vocative)

Catalan: larva

Czech: larva

Danish: larve

Dutch: larve

English: larva

French: larve

Galician: larva

Hungarian: lárva

Macedonian: ларва (larva)

Middle High German: larve, larfe

German: Larve

Mòcheno: lòrf

Italian: larva

Norwegian: larve

Polish: larwa

Portuguese: larva

Romanian: larvă

Russian: ла́рва (lárva)

Spanish: larva

Swedish: larv

Possibly from Lār (“Etruscan praenomen; titulary god”), usu. as Lares (“guardian deities”), but vowel length gradation unexplained.

(mythology) ghost, haunt, evil spirit, demon, devil


悪魔

From Middle Chinese 惡魔 (MC 'ak ma, literally “bad, evil + demon”).

ltc-l

(Buddhism) a mara, a demon seeking to prevent enlightenment


neck

The Neck no more upon the river sings.
And no Mermaid to bleach her linen flings
Upon the waves in the mild solar ray.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 234:

(folklore) A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.


ba

Any ordinary person who has ever floated out of his body during a nap knows what a Ba is, but unfortunately the dogmas of our materialistic culture constrain the person to ignore and repress his experience.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 220:

But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.

(Egyptian mythology) A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.


race

en-noun

race (countable and uncountable, plural races)

1560s, via Middle French race from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin. Partially displaced native Middle English kinde (“kind, type, sort, race, nature”), whence English kind.
theories
* Diez and some other scholars suggest derivation from Proto-Germanic *raitō (whence Old High German reiza (“line”) and Old Norse ríta (“to score, log, outline”)), perhaps via Lombardic *raiza (“line”), which Körting notes is a literal rendering of Latin linea sanguinis (“bloodline of descent”). Anatoly Liberman says "the semantic fit is good" but the chronology falters; he says the Germanic word went out of use before the Italian word arose, and he says the intermediary is not attested.
* Some scholars suggest derivation from Old Spanish raza, rasa, from earlier ras, res (“head of cattle”), from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”), but Italian razza predates the Spanish word according to Diez and Meyer-Lübke.
* Meyer-Lübke suggested Latin generatio as the root; Körting says "the disappearance of two initial syllables hardly seems credible", but Meyer-Lübke notes the Venetian form narazza and the Old Bellunesian form naraccia, positing that after the first syllable ge- was lost, the remaining (una) narazza came to be reanalysed as una razza.
* Gianfranco Contini suggests the Italian word comes from Old French haraz (“troop of horses”), whence Modern French haras (“breeding farm for horses; stud farm”), from Old Norse hárr (“grey-haired; hoary”). Liberman considers this derivation the most likely.
* Other suggested Latin etyma:
** radius (perhaps via Vulgar Latin *radia) (per Baist).
** radix (“root”) (per Ulrich); Liberman says "the semantic match is excellent", and race (“rhizome of ginger”) (which definitely derives from radix) shows that the phonology is plausible.
** *raptiare (“breed falcons”) (per Körting).
** The nominative of ratio (perhaps via an unattested intermediate form *razzo), as opposed to ragione which derives from the accusative rationem.
* Other implausible suggestions include Slavic raz and Basque arraca, supposedly meaning "stud animal" (Basque arrazza, "race", derives from Spanish).

raça

a group of sentient beings distinguished by common characteristics

عِرْق

a large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of physical characteristics

raça

a group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics

A treaty was concluded between the race of elves and the race of men.

There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]

1898, Herman Isidore Stern, The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology, page 15:

Imagine a race of aliens that develops on a dimly lit world perpetually shrouded in clouds so that vision would be less useful for survival than on Earth.

1999, Clifford A. Pickover, The Science of Aliens, page 47:

Tali: My father is responsible for the lives of seventeen million people—our entire race is in his hands. And I'm his only child.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:

A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):

(fantasy, science fiction, mythology) A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.


behemoth

/ˈbiː.əˌməθ/

From Middle English behemoth, bemoth, from Late Latin behemoth, from Hebrew בְּהֵמוֹת (behemót). Most likely, the Hebrew word is an intensive plural of בְּהֵמָה (behemá, “beast”), from Proto-Semitic (compare Ge'ez ብህመ (bəhmä, “to be dumb, to be speechless”), Arabic ب ه م (b-h-m)).
Some have instead suggested a borrowing from a hypothetical Egyptian pA-i-H-E1-mw (*pꜣ-jḥ-mw, “hippopotamus”, literally “the ox of the water”), from pꜣ (“definite article”) + jḥ (“ox, cattle”) + mw (“water”) in a direct genitive construction (for the pronunciation, compare the later Coptic descendants ⲡ- (p-) + ⲉϩⲉ (ehe) + ⲙⲟⲟⲩ (moou)); this, however, suffers from problems such as the lack of attestation of the supposed etymon, and there seems little reason to prefer it to the intensive plural explanation.

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<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">*pꜣ-jḥ-mw</i>

Coordinate term: leviathan

⸿ Beholde now Behemoth which I made with thee, hee eateth graſſe as an oxe.
 Loe now, his ſtrength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauell of his belly.
 Hee moueth his taile like a Cedar: the ſinewes of his ſtones are wrapt together.
 His bones are as ſtrong pieces of braſſe: his bones are like barres of iron.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 40:15–18, column 1:

(biblical) A great and mighty beast which God shows to Job in Job 40:15–24.


人

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (人):
* → Japanese: 人(にん) (nin); 人(じん) (jin)
* → Korean: 인(人) (in)
* → Vietnamese: nhân (人)

Austroasiatic languages
Shang dynasty
Yueshi culture

Characters in the same phonetic series (人) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – side view of a standing man, highlighting an arm and a leg. Compare 大, 立 (lì), 卩 (jié), 夭, and 氏 according to one interpretation. See also the original version of 年.
亼 is similar but unrelated; it represents an open mouth flipped upside down and appears on top of characters such as 食, 金, 令, 龠, and 今.
It represents a roof in the characters 余, 茶, 舍, and 倉. It represents a flag on a flagpole in 㫃. Eventually, it represents two parallel mountain walls in 谷.
The stylized version to the left of the characters is 亻 (see also 千). Similar but unrelated to 彳.
Sagart (1999) relates it to Tibetan ཉེན (nyen, “relative”), from ཉེ (nye, “near”) + nominalizing suffix -n; if so, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“near”).
Schuessler (2007) proposes two etymologies:
* Same etymon as 仁 (OC *njin, “to be kind; to be good”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-niŋ (“heart; brain; mind”). The semantic association of 仁 with 人 was somewhat late, dated to Mencius's time; later on, 仁 would be usually interpreted as "humane, acting like a human being".
** If so, semantically parallel with Tibetan སེམས་ཅན (sems can, “living being, human, animal”, literally “possessor of mind”); and Latin animalis (“living, having soul”) from anima (“soul”).
* Related to Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɲaʔ ~ *ɲah (“person”) with a nominalizing suffix -n, from the auto-ethnonym of a hostile, possibly Austroasiatic-speaking, eastern people, whom the Sinitic-speaking Shang referred to as 人方 (OC *njin paŋ).

ncog

亻
𠆢
儿
𠂉
几
𠔽
𤯔
𦉫
寧
儂/侬
𠆧

吃得苦中苦，方為人上人／吃得苦中苦，方为人上人

chī de kǔ zhōng kǔ, fāng wéi rén shàng rén

狼人 ― lángrén ― werewolf

虎人 ― hǔrén ― weretiger

(fantasy, mythology) were- (indicates a person who changes shape into an animal)


魔界

From 魔(ま) (ma, “magical; demonic”) + 界(かい) (-kai, “realm; world”).


rise

risen (definite singular)
riser (indefinite plural)
risene (definite plural)

From Old Norse risi. Cognate with German Riese (“giant”).


human

From Late Middle English humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin hūmānus m (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”, adjective), from homo, with unclear ū. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Not etymologically related to man.

der

чолові́к m (čolovík) (now usually means "man", "male human")

Greetings. I am Blor-Utar from Zimtok-5. I have come to subjugate the human race. Do not resist. Why humans? Because, in addition to their value as slave labor, they are also delicious and nutritious!

1994 March 29, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes:

(strictly, biology) The tallest, most abundant and most intelligent of the primates; Homo sapiens.

(fantasy, science fiction, mythology) A human as contrasted from superficially similar but typically more powerful humanoid creatures; a member of the human race.


ドラゴン

[do̞ɾa̠ɡõ̞ɴ]

(especially fantasy) Western dragon (mythical creature)


Europe

English: Europe, Europa (see there for further descendants)

Scots: Europe

Learned borrowing from Latin Eurōpa, borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).


heaven

en-noun

heaven (countable and uncountable, plural heavens)

horror

antonym(s) of “blissful place or experience”

From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Scots heiven, hewin (“heaven, sky”), Middle Dutch heven (“sky, heaven”), Low German Heven (“heaven, sky”), Middle High German heben (“sky, heaven”), and possibly the rare Icelandic and Old Norse hifinn (“heaven, sky”), which are all probably dissimilated forms of the Germanic root which appears in Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins, “heaven, sky”), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch hemel), and Old High German himil (German Himmel).
Accepting these as cognates, some scholars propose a further derivation from Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cover, cloud cover, firmament, sky, heaven”).

سَمَاء

سَمَاوَات pl (samāwāt)

فَلَك

أَفْلَاك pl (ʔaflāk)

Teache the people to gett heuen with fastynge.

1544, Richard Tracy, A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght Kynge of England of Fraunce and of Irelande, section C:

...what I speake
My body shall make good vpon this earth,
Or my diuine soule answer it in heauen.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 1]:

Wee haue a great high Priest, that is passed into the heauens.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 4:14:

(religion) The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:

(Christianity, Islam) Paradise, the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.

سَمَاء f جَنَّة f فِرْدَوْس

سَمَاوَات pl (samāwāt)


Asia

en-proper noun

Asia (countable and uncountable, plural Asias)

From Middle English Asia, Asie, from Old French Asie and Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /aswijaː/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /Aššuwa/, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin. Potentially from an Aegean language family substrate or Akkadian. Possibly a doublet of Assuwa.

der

67 Asia
Asia
Asia (mythology)
United Nations Statistics Division

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan, Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.


㒥

(mythology) Only used in 偓㒥／偓仹 (“(ancient Chinese folklore) Taoist immortal, celestial being”).


亃

(Chinese mythology) a kind of swine-like beast with a yellow body and a white tail


僼

Han char

僼 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人廿田廿 (OTWT), composition ⿰亻豊)

(mythology) (ancient Chinese folklore) Taoist immortal, celestial being


凰

Originally 皇. A spurious 𠘨 was added by the assimilation with 鳳.

(Chinese mythology) female fenghuang (a mythological bird)


仙

From Middle Chinese 仙 (MC sjen, literally “immortal”). Compare modern Mandarin reading xiān and Cantonese reading sin¹.

(mythology) short for 仙人 (sennin): a wizard or mage; an immortal living as a hermit in the mountains


啟

(Chinese mythology) Qi of Xia (second king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)


嚳

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰuːɡ): phonetic 學 (OC *ɡruːɡ) + semantic 告 (“to tell”). 告 (OC *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ) may also be a phonetic component.


夔

From a Kam-Tai source (Mei, 1980; Schuessler, 2007); compare Proto-Tai *ɣwaːjᴬ (“water buffalo”), Sui kui² (“water buffalo”). Schuessler also considered 犩 (Later Han Chinese ŋuɨ) to be the same etymon.

(Chinese mythology) the Kui, a one-legged creature


夋

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰlun): phonetic 允 (OC *lunʔ) + semantic 夊 (“walk”).
Alternatively, according to Li Xueqin (2012), originally a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰlun): phonetic 允 (OC *lunʔ) + semantic 女 (“woman”).

Han compound

(mythology) the given name of legendary Emperor Ku, father of Emperor Yao


姜

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *klaŋ): phonetic 羊 (OC *laŋ) + semantic 女 (“female”)
Commonly assumed to be related to 羌 (OC *kʰlaŋ) (Pulleyblank, 2000), though not necessarily (Schuessler, 2007); 羊 (OC *laŋ, “sheep”) in the graphs may be just phonetic or also semantic, signifying "names referring to nomads" (Schuessler, 2009).

Han compound

The Divine Farmer dwelt by the Jiang river, (whose name) he took as (his) surname.

神農居姜水，以為姓。

神农居姜水，以为姓。

Commentary on the Water Classic
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(mythology) name of a river, identified as a Qi stream near Mount Qi (Commentary on the Water Classic)


娥

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋaːl): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ)

Han compound

(Chinese mythology) Short for 娥皇 (Éhuáng, “Ehuang”).

(Chinese mythology) Short for 嫦娥 (Cháng'é, “Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon”).


姬

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *klɯ, *lɯ): semantic 女 (“woman; matrilateral family line; family name”) + phonetic 𦣞 ().
; Zhou dynastic surname
:Instead, he suggests an etymological connection between "the two intermarrying moieties, a ruling clan and its collateral, wife-supplying counterpart": 姬 (OC *(C)ɰə̀ɰ) and 姜 (*(C)ɰàŋ). He also points to other word-pairs, including 似 (MC ziX, “to resemble”) < *-əɰʔ and 像 (MC zjangX, “to imitate, image”) < *-aŋʔ, which display the phonetic correspondences: *-ɰ vs. *-ŋ as well *-ə- vs. *-a- (ibid.)
; lady (ancient laudatory title for women)
; "gay"

Han compound

Ji ("姬") was originally the surname of the Zhou; their princesses were more honorable than princesses of other states; therefore women with laudatory appellations are all called Ji ("姬").

Jī běn Zhōu xìng, qí nǚ guì yú lièguó zhī nǚ, suǒyǐ fùrén měihào jiē chēng jī.

姬本周姓，其女貴於列國之女，所以婦人美號皆稱姬。

姬本周姓，其女贵于列国之女，所以妇人美号皆称姬。

The Yellow Thearch dwelt by the Ji river, (whose name) he took as (his) surname.

黃帝居姬水，以為姓。

黄帝居姬水，以为姓。


妖

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qrow): semantic 女 + phonetic 夭 (OC *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ).

Han compound

貓妖

猫妖


康

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 庚 (“threshing tools”) + 米 (“rice”) – chaff. Unrelated to 隶, in which the bottom part is a reference to a tail (毛).
The derivative 糠 refers to the original word.
; quiet, calm, peaceful
; Kham
; "to look, to see"

(Chinese mythology) Tai Kang (third king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)

(Chinese mythology) Zhong Kang (fourth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)

(Chinese mythology) Shao Kang (sixth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)


扃

/t͡ɕi̯ʊŋ²¹⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ʊŋ²¹⁴/

(Chinese mythology) Jiong of Xia (twelfth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)


巴

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (巴):
* → Japanese: 巴(は) (Ha)
* → Korean: 파(巴) (Pa)
* → Vietnamese: Ba (巴)

Pictogram (象形) — a huge snake. However, in 邑 and 色 (both Kangxi radicals) it represents a person kneeling.
; "huge snake"
; "bar"

(ancient Chinese mythology) a huge snake that could swallow an elephant


杼

(Chinese mythology) Zhu of Xia (seventh king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)


天

Sino-Xenic (天):
* → Japanese: 天(てん) (ten)
* → Korean: 천(天) (cheon)
* → Vietnamese: thiên (天)

A horizontal line above a man with outstretched arms 大 (dà) to indicate the sky (compare the original versions of 上). The other ancient representations of the character depicted a man with a large squared head, an anthropomorphic representation of heaven.
Original meaning of the word is “sky”. Such concept is difficult to depict with a pictogram, hence the current form. Perhaps influenced by the glyph, the character was frequently glossed in Old Chinese documents with 顛 (“crown of the head”), and such had led to incorrect hypotheses which regarded 天 (tiān) as a derivation of 顛 or 巔, “top (of the head/hill)”.
This character was previously reconstructed to have a /*tʰ/-initial in Old Chinese, but this hypothesis has been largely discounted in recent reconstructions, in light of evidence from early Chinese accounts of dialectal pronunciations, transcription of other languages, as well as cognate/derived characters within Chinese, which has all pointed to a voiceless resonant initial /*l̥-/ in Old Chinese. According to chapter 1 of Shiming, by c. 200 CE, this initial had already produced dialectal variation in the pronunciation: People in central-western China pronounced it with the back of the tongue, like 顯 (MC xenX), while people in eastern China pronounced it with the tip of the tongue, like 坦 (MC thanX). An old northwestern dialect variant survives as 祆 (MC xen, “God of the Zoroastrians”), and the word 天竺 (MC then trjuwk, “India”) was used to transcribe Old Persian *Hind-uka ("India").
Further etymology is unknown. During the time when this term was reconstructed with a /*tʰ-/ initial, it was frequently compared with tengri, the name for God in early Turkic and Mongolic peoples' languages. This now appears unlikely. The only certain external cognate is the Central Bai (a language closely related to Chinese) word heinl (“sky, heaven”) /xẽ⁵⁵/. Chen (1998) proposes cognation with 祁連 (OC *g'ieg-lian) and 赫連 (OC *khak-lian), transcriptions of a Xiongnu word for "sky", which he also relates to 昊天 (OC *g'ôg-hlin).

𠀘
𠀡
𠑺
兲
𠕹
㕦
䒶
𦴞
𩇗
𩇞
靝/靔
𠀑
𬻃

上天

天意

(mythology or religion) heaven as the abode of the gods or the blessed departed; heavenly

天主

老天

我的天啊！

天助自助者。

(mythology or religion) Heaven as an impersonal deity; often translated as God


槐

(Chinese mythology) Huai of Xia (eighth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)


楓

From Old Japanese. Less common spelling for 桂 (katsura).

桂: (Chinese mythology) the kind of tree that grows on the moon


泄

(Chinese mythology) Xie of Xia (tenth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)


淫

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lɯm): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 㸒 ().
; “to soak; excessive; to let loose; licentious”

Han compound

(mythology, historical) Alternative name for 瑤池／瑶池 (Yáochí, “a legendary body of water”).


泥

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *niːl, *niːls): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 尼 (OC *nil).
Schuessler (2007) suggests it is of Sino-Tibetan origin and compares it to Lai [script needed] (nôoy-I, nǒoy-II, “be muddy”), which STEDT derives from Proto-Kuki-Chin *nooy ~ *naay (“muddy; dirty”). According to Schuessler (2007), 泥 (OC *niːl, “mud”) is also cognate with 濘 (OC *neːŋs) but not with 涅 (OC *niːɡ), and is distinct from 泥 (OC *niːls, “impeded”).
On the other hand, STEDT compares 泥 (OC *niːl, *niːls) to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-njak (“filth(y); excrement”), to which 敜 (OC *nɯːb) and 涅 (OC *niːɡ) are also compared.

cog

GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

(Chinese mythology) a kind of animal that lived in sea


潘

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (潘):
* → Korean: 반(潘) (ban)
* → Vietnamese: Phan (潘)

→ English: Pan, Poon, Pun, Phua

→ Mandarin: ㄆㄨㄣ (pūn) (Taiwanese slang from Hokkien)

→ Tagalog: Pua (via Hokkien)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰaːn): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 番 (OC *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban).


河

Wutunhua: xhe

Characters in the same phonetic series (可) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡaːl): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 可 (OC *kʰaːlʔ).
Originally particularly used for the Yellow River, with other rivers known as 水 (OC *qʰʷljilʔ). Later extended generally as a word for rivers in northern China but the influence of 江 (OC *kroːŋ, “Yangtze River; river in southern China”) has meant that modern usage tends to favor it for shorter rivers and creeks except in historical cases.
External etymology uncertain. Various hypotheses have been proposed:
* Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Tibetan རྒལ (rgal, “to cross, to traverse”) (Coblin, 1986).
* A Mongolic loan. Compare Proto-Mongolic *gowl (“river”) > Mongolian ᠭᠣᠣᠯ (ɣool, “river”) (Norman and Mei, 1976). This was argued against in Zhang (1998).
* Derived from 湖 (OC *ɡaː, “lake”) (Matisoff, 1995).
* Takashima (2012), citing palaeographical and archaeological evidence, posits that the Yellow River's name stemmed from the shape, which resembles an adze handle 柯 (OC *kaːl), of a stretch spanning 500 to 600 kilometers "from Héjīn, Tóngguān to east of Zhèngzhōu".

cog

(obsolete, Chinese mythology) Hebo; the god of the Yellow River

Yellow River, Huang He
Hebo; the god of the Yellow River

(obsolete, Chinese mythology) Yellow River's Map; the plan of the Yellow River (mystic diagram said to have been supernaturally revealed)


犼

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声): semantic 犭 (“canine”) + phonetic 孔 (OC *kʰloːŋʔ)


狴

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *piː): semantic 犬 (“dog”) + phonetic 坒 (OC *bis, *biɡ).

Han compound

(literary, Chinese mythology) legendary tiger-like beast whose image used to be painted on prison doors


獍

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kraŋs): semantic 犬 (“dog”) + phonetic 竟 (OC *kraŋs).
A late word; its earliest extant attestation is in the late 5th-century treatise 《述異記》 Tales of Strange Matters by 任昉 Ren Fang (460-508).
Related to 破鏡 (OC *pʰaːls kraŋs, “a beast that eats its own father”) mentioned in the Book of Han.

och-l

a mythical tiger-like animal that eats its own mother shortly after birth


猙

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsreːŋ, *zeŋʔ): semantic 犬 (“dog”) + phonetic 爭 (OC *ʔsreːŋ).

Han compound

Yǒushòuyān, qízhuàngrúchìbào, wǔwěiyījiǎo, qíyīnrújīshí, qímíngrúzhēng.

有獸焉，其狀如赤豹，五尾一角，其音如擊石，其名如猙。

有兽焉，其状如赤豹，五尾一角，其音如击石，其名如狰。

(literary, Chinese mythology) a red leopard-like creature with one horn


狽

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *paːds): semantic 犬 (“dog”) + phonetic 貝 (OC *paːds).

Han compound

(mythology) a legendary wolf-like animal with short forelegs and long hind legs


猎

(Chinese mythology) a kind of bear-like animal


獏

獏 (canonical)
獏 (canonical)
baku (romanization)


狢

狢 (canonical)
狢 (canonical)
mujina (romanization)

Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Nihon Shoki
Wakan Sansai Zue

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.

(mythology) a yōkai that shapeshifts and deceives humans


炎

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (炎):
* → Japanese: 炎(えん) (en)
* → Korean: 염(炎) (yeom)
* → Vietnamese: viêm (炎)

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 火 (“fire”) + 火 (“fire”). Vertical duplication of 火 (“fire”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ljam (“tongue; lick; flame”) (STEDT). Cognate with Chepang लेम्ह्सा (lemh‑, “to lick”), Burmese အလျှံ (a.hlyam, “flame; iridescence”). Within Chinese, cognate with 焰 (OC *loms, “to flame up”), 舔 (OC *l̥ʰiːmʔ, “to lick”). Compare also Khmer លាម (liəm, “to flare up”) (Schuessler, 2007).

cog

(mythology) Yan Emperor (ancient legendary Chinese ruler)


禹

The Shuowen interprets the character as pictographic (象形) of an animal. The bronze-script character clearly shows the 虫 component.
;insect

(Chinese mythology) Yu the Great (the legendary king associated with a flood myth and the foundation of the Xia dynasty)


竜

ja-noun

竜(りゅう) • (ryū)

1999 July 22, “砦(とりで)を守(まも)る翼(よく)竜(りゅう) [Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress]”, in Vol.4, Konami:

A dragon who guards a mountainous fortress. It strikes its enemies as it dives down from the sky.

山の砦を守る竜。天空から急降下して敵を攻撃。

Yama no toride o mamoru ryū. Tenkū kara kyūkōka shite teki o kōgeki.

2004 May 1, Izawa, Hiroshi with Yamada, Kotaro, “第(だい)26(にじゅうろく)話(わ) 賢(けん)者(じゃ)の試(し)問(もん) [Chapter 26: A Test with the Sage]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], volume 7 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 70:

Dragons and humans ought to be able to coexist. Isn’t the world large enough for both? I’d love to see such a world.

竜も人も一緒に生きればいい そのくらいの広さは 世界にはあるだろ？オレはそんな世界を見たいんだ

Ryū mo hito mo issho ni ikireba ii Sono kurai no hirosa wa sekai ni wa aru daro? Ore wa sonna sekai o mitai n da

神と呼ばれし竜ファ ― Kami to Yobareshi Ryū Fa ― Fa, the Dragon Known as God

2007 October 20, Izawa, Hiroshi with Yamada, Kotaro, “最終話 それぞれの道へ [Final Chapter: Epilog]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], Jump Remix edition, volume 5 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, page 353

(mythology) Synonym of ドラゴン (doragon): a Western dragon


竜

竜 (canonical)
Ryū (romanization)
Ryuu (romanization)
りゆう (hiragana historical)

(astronomy) Short for りゅう座 (Ryūza): the constellation Draco


竜

竜 (canonical)
ryō (romanization)
ryou (romanization)
りよう (hiragana historical)

(mythology, rare or in Chinese contexts) a Chinese dragon


竜

From Old Japanese.
Possibly from the verb 立つ (tatsu, “to rise, stand”).


相

/ɬiaŋ³³⁻³³⁵/

/ɬiaŋ³³⁻³³⁵/

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 木 (“tree”) + 目 (“eye”) – looking at, or watching the tree.
An allofam is 胥 (OC *sŋa, *sŋaʔ, “each other; mutually; all; to observe; to assist”) (Gong, 1995; Schuessler, 2007).
Derivative: 想 (OC *slaŋʔ, “to think”) (“appearance > to visualise > to think”).

och-l

(Chinese mythology) Xiang of Xia (fifth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)


Fand

(Irish mythology) A fairy and the wife of Manannán mac Lir and later the lover of Cúchulainn.


蓱

From Austroasiatic; compare Khmer ភ្លៀង (phliəng, “rain”) (Schuessler, 2007), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(p)liɲ ~ *(p)liəɲ ~ (p)liiɲ (“sky, rain”) .

cog

The pluvial sprite cries out for the rain to fall; how does he bring it about?

The Verses of Chu, 4ᵗʰ century BCE – 2ⁿᵈ century CE

蓱號起雨，何以興之？

蓱号起雨，何以兴之？


芒

(Chinese mythology) Mang of Xia (ninth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)


蛟

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kreːw): semantic 虫 (“creature”) + phonetic 交 (OC *kreːw).
Possibly connected with Burmese ခြူး (hkru:, “a type of beast”) and Tibetan ཀླུ (klu, “serpent, naga”) (Schuessler, 2007). However, Schuessler (2007) notices phonological differences between Old Chinese and Written Tibetan.

Han compound

(～龍) (Chinese mythology) mythical flood dragon


蜃

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djɯns, *djɯnʔ, *djins): phonetic 辰 (OC *djɯn) + semantic 虫 (“insect”).
May also be an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意), with 辰 possibly being an agricultural tool made from clam, see there for more.
Possibly related to 辰 (OC *djɯn, “5th earthly branch; dragon”) (Schuessler, 2007); see there for more.
Carr (1990) organizes characters in the 辰 phonetic series into two groups, one of which is "dragon", which includes 蜃 as well as 晨 (OC *djɯn, “dragon star”).

och-l

蜃景

By the sea, the clamʼs mist resembles towers; in the wild expanse, mist becomes palaces thus.

Hǎipáng shènqì xiàng lóutái, guǎngyě qì chéng gōngquè rán.

海旁蜃氣象樓臺，廣野氣成宮闕然。

海旁蜃气象楼台，广野气成宫阙然。

Before the door, the drakes blow mist; on the coir, the orchids emit fragrance.

齊己 (Qí Jǐ) 《湘江漁父》 "The Fisherman on Xiang River", in 《全唐詩》 Quan Tangshi.

Ménqián jiāoshèn qì, suōshàng huìlán xīn.

門前蛟蜃氣，蓑上蕙蘭馨。

门前蛟蜃气，蓑上蕙兰馨。

(mythology) the shen, a shapeshifting aquatic monster originally imagined as a clam and later as a type of dragon


蜮

(Chinese mythology) a small three-legged turtle-like creature that lives in water and spits sand at humans, often forcefully enough to kill them.


螣

Han char

螣 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月火手戈 (BFQI), four-corner 7923₆, composition ⿰月䖭)

(mythology) Only used in 螣蛇 (téngshé, “a kind of flying serpent or dragon of Chinese mythology.”).


螣

(mythology) Used in 螣蛇 (téngshé, “a kind of flying serpent or dragon of Chinese mythology.”).


螭

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *r̥ʰel): semantic 虫 (“creature”) + phonetic 离 (OC *rel, *r̥ʰel).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *n-d-raj (“demon; evil spirit; ghost”).

inh

(Chinese mythology) legendary hornless dragon (often used as a decorative motif in ancient times)


虯

/t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/

/t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrɯw): semantic 虫 + phonetic 丩 (OC *kɯw, *krɯw).
Coblin (1986) compares this to Tibetan ཀླུ (klu, “serpent, naga”), yet see 蛟 (OC *kreːw); most likely etymology is "twisting, wriggling" (Carr, 1990; Schuessler, 2007). Note 糾 (OC *kɯw, *krɯwʔ) "to twist, plait, wind, entwine".


蟈

Alternative form of 蜮 (yù, “legendary creature that has three legs and harms humans”)


dev

From Armenian դեւ (dew). Doublet of daeva.

(Armenian mythology) A monster, dragon, serpent, or giant.

(Armenian mythology) An immortal spirit who inhabits old ruins.


虺

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hŋuːl, *hŋruːl, *hŋlulʔ): phonetic 兀 (OC *ŋuːd) + semantic 虫.
; “venomous snake”

Han compound

What dreams are lucky?
They have been about black bears and brown bears,
They have been about asps and adders.

The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Jí mèng wéi hé,
Wéi xióng wéi pí,
Wéi huǐ wéi shé.

吉夢維何、
維熊維羆、
維虺維蛇。

吉梦维何、
维熊维罴、
维虺维蛇。

1919, 《新舊約全書：官話和合譯本》 [Mandarin Bible, Union Version], Shanghai: American Bible Society:

Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward. [World English Bible]

Dàn bì zuò dào shang de shé, lù zhōng de huǐ, yǎoshāng mǎtí, shǐ qímǎ de zhuìluò yú hòu.

但必作道上的蛇、路中的虺、咬傷馬蹄、使騎馬的墜落於後。

但必作道上的蛇、路中的虺、咬伤马蹄、使骑马的坠落于后。

(Chinese mythology) a kind of venomous snake


若

Pictogram (象形) – a person combing their hair; obedient.
Later 口 was added and the original component came to be written 叒.
; “you; your”
; "like this; such; if"
; "that"

Then He Bo began to turn his face round, looked across the expanse, as if he were confronting Ruo, and sighed.

Zhuangzi, circa 3ʳᵈ – 2ⁿᵈ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Yúshì yān Hé Bó shǐ xuán qí miànmù, wàng yáng xiàng Ruò ér tàn.

於是焉河伯始旋其面目，望洋向若而歎。

于是焉河伯始旋其面目，望洋向若而叹。

I invite the Genius of River Xiang to play the se, and the oceanic Ruo to dance with Feng Yi of the Yellow River.

Shǐ Xiāng líng gǔ sè xī, lìng hǎi Ruò wǔ Féng Yí.

使湘靈鼓瑟兮，令海若舞馮夷。

使湘灵鼓瑟兮，令海若舞冯夷。

(Chinese mythology) Ruo, mythological divine being of the northern seas


蜚

(Chinese mythology) name of mythical beast


ogre

First attested in the 18th century, borrowed from French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὅρκος (Hórkos), the personified demon of oaths (ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon oath-breakers. Doublet of orc and Orcus.

And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid his wife not to pull the clothes that way, or she'd strip him, and he would get his death of cold." "Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]

1828, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume II, page 237:

(mythology) A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.


ogre

→ Asturian: ogru

→ Catalan: ogre

→ Dutch: oger

→ English: ogre

→ German: Oger

→ Hungarian: ogre

→ Japanese: オーガ (ōga)

→ Korean: 오거 (ogeo)

→ Malayalam: ഓഗർ (ōgaṟ)

→ Polish: ogr

→ Portuguese: ogro, ogre

→ Spanish: ogro

Inherited from Old French ogre, itself probably an alteration, with influence from words like bougre, of an earlier form *orc, from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”), with metathesis. According to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, first attested in the late 12th century meaning 'fierce non-Christian', and ca. 1300 meaning 'human-eating giant' (in fairy tales). Cognate with Old Spanish huerco (“the Devil”), Spanish huerco (“depressed man in the dark”), Italian orco (“ogre, orc”). Doublet of orque.
See also French lutin (“imp, pixie”), possibly from Old French netun (“marine monster”), derived from Latin Neptūnus, and also Old French gene (“mischievous fairy”) and Romanian zână (“fairy”), both inherited forms of Latin Diāna. A sermon by Merovingian French bishop St. Eligius (died 659) advises people against belief in Neptune, Diana, Orcus and Minerva.


誓

誓 (canonical)
ukei (romanization)
ukefi (romanization)
うけひ (hiragana historical)

アマテラスとスサノオの誓約

(archaic, Shinto, Japanese mythology) an "oath", a ritual in which whether something is true or false, right or wrong, good or evil, etc. is judged based on whether the stated outcome of an act comes true as expected


貅

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰu): semantic 豸 + phonetic 休 (OC *qʰu).

Han compound

The pixiu: they look like tigers; some say they look like bears; their furs are colored ashen white. People in Liaodong call them white brown bears. The male is called pí, and the female xiū; that was why ancient people many times mentioned them together.

1917, 徐珂 (Xu Ke), 《清稗類鈔》 (Categorized anthology of petty matters from the Qing period).

Píxiū, xíng sì hǔ, huò yuē sì xióng, máo sè huībái. Liáodōng rén wèi zhī báipí. Xióngzhě yuē pí, cízhě yuē xiū, gù gǔrén duō lián jǔ zhī.

貔貅，形似虎，或曰似熊，毛色灰白。遼東人謂之白羆。雄者曰貔，雌者曰貅，故古人多連舉之。

貔貅，形似虎，或曰似熊，毛色灰白。辽东人谓之白罴。雄者曰貔，雌者曰貅，故古人多连举之。

(Chinese mythology) female panther-like feline; female counterpart of 貔 (pí)


能

Characters in the same phonetic series (能) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形): bear. Compare 熊 (OC *ɢʷlɯm, “bear”). In the character, two paws are visible as a pair of 匕 and the face with the open mouth is stylized as 月.
; "bear-like animal"
; “be able to; can; ability”
: Possibly Proto-Sino-Tibetan (which STEDT tentatively reconstructs as *m-nyaŋ (“can, be able”)): compare Tibetan ནུས (nus, “to be able to; capable; to withstand; capacity; strength; force; power; function; energy”), Burmese နိုင် (nuing, “can, be able to, may; master; win; prevail”). Schuessler (2007) also derives 態 (OC *n̥ʰɯːs, “apparition, bearing, manner”) from this; see also 忍 (OC *njɯnʔ, “to suffer, endure”).
: Compare the old pre-Sino–Vietnamese loanword nổi (“be able to; capable”).

och-l

(Chinese mythology) A mythological bear-like animal, with deer-like legs.


elf

en-noun

elf (plural elves or (now nonstandard) elfs)

elves (plural)
elfs (nonstandard plural)

A Dictionary of the English Language
Andrew Brice
Edmund Spenser
John Dryden
Laurence Eusden
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver and Boyd
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Peter Heylyn
Sabine Baring-Gould
Sidney Lanier
Thomas Nashe
elf

→ Arabic: إِلْف (ʔilf)

→ Dutch: elf

→ French: elfe

→ German: Elf, Elfe

→ Japanese: エルフ (erufu)

→ Korean: 엘프 (elpeu)

→ Russian: эльф (elʹf)

→ Ukrainian: ельф (elʹf)

From Middle English elf, from Old English ielf, ælf, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz. Ultimately probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”). Doublet of alf and oaf.

[…] if theyr children at any time vvere frowarde and vvanton, they would ſay to them that the Guelfe or the Gibeline came. VVhich vvords novve from them (as many thinge els) be come into our vſage, and for Guelfes and Gibelines, we ſay Elfes & Goblins.

1579, E. K., “[Iune. Ægloga Sexta.] Glosse.”, in Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 25, recto:

The man whom heauens haue ordaynd to bee / The ſpouſe of Britomart, is Arthegall: / He wonneth in the land of Fayeree, / Yet is no Fary borne, ne ſib at all / To Elfes, but ſprong of ſeed terreſtriall, / And whylome by falſe Faries ſtolne away, / Whyles yet in infant cradle he did crall; / Ne other to himſelfe is knowne this day, / But that he by an Elfe was gotten of a Fay.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 433:

Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped Fawnes, Satyres, Dryades & Hamadryades, did most of their merry prankes in the Night.

1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: […] Iohn Danter for William Iones, […]:

Every elf, and fairy sprite, / Hop as light as bird from brier.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

[…] I had rather have a Child which my Wife ſhould bring me, though by another man, then to have a Changeling brought me by a company of Fairies, Elfs and Goblins: […]

1649, ΕΙΚΩΝ Ἡ ΠΙΣΤΗ. Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication of ΕΙΚΏΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΉ. […], page 16:

The quarrel ſpreading into parties, called the Guelfs and the Gibellines, became at laſt the wonder and amazement of all good people: inſomuch as ſome are of opinion, that the fiction of the Elfs and Goblins, wherewith we uſe to fright young children, was derived from hence.

1657, Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and All the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles Thereof., 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Seile, […], page 131:

The opinion of Fairies and Elfs is very old, and yet ſticketh very religiously in the minds of ſome. But to root that rank opinion of Elfs out of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no ſuch things, nor yet the ſhadows of the things, but only by a ſort of bald Friers and knaviſh ſhavelings ſo faigned; […]

1678, The Shepherds Calendar: Containing Twelve Æglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months. […], London: […] Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, […], page 26:

For there and ſeveral other places / About mill dams and green brae faces, / Both Elrich, Elfs and Brownies ſtayed, / And Green gown’d Farries daunc’d and played; […]

a. 1690, William Cleland, A Collection of Several Poems and Verses, Composed upon Various Occasions, published 1697, page 59:

IN Days of Old when Arthur fill’d the Throne, / Whoſe Acts and Fame to Foreign Lands were blown; / The King of Elfs and little Fairy Queen / Gamboll’d on Heaths, and danc’d on ev’ry Green.

1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bath Her Tale [by Geoffrey Chaucer]”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 479:

This Juno heard; And ſhall ſuch Elfs, ſhe cry’d, / Diſpute my Juſtice, or my Pow’r deride?

1717, Laurence Eusden, “Book IV. [The Transformation of the Theban Matrons.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 127:

[…]the Devaſtations under the Goths, Guelphs, and Gibelines [whence ſome would derive the Terms of Elfs (or Elves) or Fairies, and Goblins (or Hobgoblins) or Spectres, &c.] […]

1760, Andrew Brice, “TUSCANY”, in The Grand Gazetteer; or, Topographic Dictionary, &c., page 1322, column 1:

Farefolkis, fairies, elfs, or elves; […]

1802, J[ames] Sibbald, “Glossary; or An Explanation of Ancient Scottish Words”, in Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To Which Is Added a Glossary, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [F]or J. Sibbald, […], [b]y C. Stewart & Co. […]:

These Picts are the Clan Alpin, the Alps, or Elfs or Elves,—[…]

1850, Matthew Stewart, Remarks on the Subject of Language, with Some Observations in the Form of Notes, Illustrative of the Information Which Language May Afford of the History and Opinions of Mankind, London: […] Richard and John Edward Taylor, […], for, […] the Author, page 14:

Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion? Art thou a Christian child,—ha? Dost know thy catechism? Or art thou one of those naughty elfs or fairies, whom we thought to have left behind us, with other relics of Papistry, in merry old England?

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Elf-Child and the Minister”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 130:

The next species of these airy nothings are the elfs, or elves; […]

1852, William Bell, Shakespeare’s Puck, and His Folkslore, Illustrated from the Superstitions of All Nations, but More Especially from the Earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends, London, page 58:

The Arbhus became in Teutonic mythology the Alben, Elben or Elfen, our Elfs, and in Scandinavian the Alfar.

1868, S[abine] Baring-Gould, “The Piper of Hameln”, in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, second series, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.; London: Rivingtons, page 173:

The elfs or elves were inhabitants of the fields and groves, the progenitors of the fairies of the middle ages; […]

1868, David Hume, William Cooke Stafford, The History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, volume I, London, New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, page 53, column 1:

Since you’ve been out, the news arrives / The Elfs’ Insurance Company’s gone.

1877, Sidney Lanier, “The Hard Times in Elfland. A Story of Christmas Eve.”, in [Mary Lanier], editor, Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1884, page 159:

Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c.

1879, William Henderson, “Index”, in Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. […], London: […] [F]or the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., […], page 364:

Much of fairy lore clusters around the so-called fairy rings, that is, the green circles in old pastures within which the elfs were supposed to dance at night by the light of the moon.

1889 May, “[Literary Notices.] The Folk-Lore of Plants. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. […]”, in Popular Science, page 128, column 1:

NAT,[…]; a term applied to all spiritual beings, angels, elfs, demons, or what not, including the gods of the Hindus.

1903, Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell, “NAT, s.”, in edited by William Crooke, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, London: John Murray, […], page 619, column 2:

Elfs and fays, from their haunts in the mountains, whistle their eerie ballads above the gray roof of “Dove Cottage,” and dance their ghostly jigs on the huge hearthstone, among whose blazing logs the Fire God paints his immortal canvases, with colorings splendid beyond the dream of man.

1917 November, Elizabeth Clendenning Ring, “Florence Earle Coates: Some Phases of Her Life and Poetry”, in The Book News Monthly, volume 36, page 109, column 1:

Alfs [elfs]: Another name for the elfs or elves.

2010, Heilan Yvette Grimes, The Norse Myths, Hollow Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 254:

(Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.

elf

Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim

(fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).

elf

fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature


elf

elf (nominative singular)
elfové (nominative plural)
elfa (genitive singular)
elfů (genitive plural)
elfovi (dative singular)
elfu (dative singular)
elfům (dative plural)
elfa (accusative singular)
elfy (accusative plural)
elfe (singular vocative)
elfové (plural vocative)
elfovi (locative singular)
elfu (locative singular)
elfech (locative plural)
elfem (instrumental singular)
elfy (instrumental plural)


elf

head

elf m (masculine plural elf, feminine singular elfa, feminine plural elfe)

elf (masculine plural)
elfa (feminine singular)
elfe (feminine plural)


elf

English: elf (see there for further descendants)

Scots: elf

Yola: elf

From Old English elf, Anglian form of ælf, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”).

Scho was so faire & so fresche · as faucon hire semed, / An elfe out of an-othire erde · or ellis an Aungell

c. 1450, Wars of Alexander, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, passus 24, line 5258:

She was so fair and beautiful; her elegance seemed like / An elf out of another world, or else an angel.

he was takyn with an elfe / I saw it myself / when the clok stroke twelf / was he forshapyn

c. 1450, “The Second Shepherds' Play”, in The Towneley Plays, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, line 616:

He was taken by an elf; I saw it myself. / When the clock struck twelve, he was transfigured.


elf

elfik (diminutive)
elf (nominative singular)
elfy (nominative plural)
elfa (genitive singular)
elfów (genitive plural)
elfowi (dative singular)
elfom (dative plural)
elfa (accusative singular)
elfy (accusative plural)
elfem (instrumental singular)
elfami (instrumental plural)
elfie (locative singular)
elfach (locative plural)
elfie (singular vocative)
elfy (plural vocative)


labyrinth

From Middle English laberynt, laberynthe, from Latin labyrinthus, from Ancient Greek λᾰβύρῐνθος (labúrinthos, “a maze”).

der

Mrs. Churchill liked the interminable labyrinths of the Cyrus and the Cassandra, because she had liked them in the days of her girlhood. Youth identifies itself with the romance; it is the heroic knight, or the lovely lady, of which it reads; it lives amid those fine creations; its sweetest hours are given to dreams which soon "Fade into the light of common day."

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 264–265:

(Greek mythology) A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.

A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.

(horticulture) A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.

A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths

Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.

2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):

(by extension) Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.


chaos

chaos (nominative singular)
chaosu (genitive singular)
chaosowi (dative singular)
chaos (accusative singular)
chaosem (instrumental singular)
chaosie (locative singular)
chaosie (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) chaos (unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony)


sphere

From Middle English spere, from Old French sphere, from Late Latin sphēra, earlier Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), of unknown origin. Not related to superficially similar Persian سپهر (sepehr, “sky”) .

uder

ſooner ſhall the Sun fall from his Spheare,
Than Tamburlaine be ſlaine or ouercome.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

It is more simplicitie to teach our children[…][t]he knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eighth spheare, before their owne.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 153:

They understood not the motion of the eighth sphear from West to East, and so conceived the longitude of the Stars invariable.

1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:

music of the spheres
music of the spheres

(historical, astronomy, mythology) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres).

sferoj

historical, astronomy, mythology: any of the concentric globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth

(mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.


mer

There are mermaids and mermen everywhere. They swim above us and linger in nooks and arched doorways. It's impossible not to stare. The mer are as diverse as humans—all ages, size, shape, and color.

2013, Missy Fleming, Into the Deep, page 65:


雎

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰa): phonetic 且 (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa) + semantic 隹 (“bird”).

Han compound

Mount Jīng's summit is called mount Jǐng, … wherefrom the river Jū flows out ….

Jīngshān zhī shǒu, yuē jǐngshān,....... Jūshuǐ chū yān,.......

荊山之首，曰景山，……。雎水出焉，……。

荆山之首，曰景山，……。雎水出焉，……。


Paris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πάρις (Páris).

-æɹɪs (Received Pronunciation, New York City, without the Mary–marry–merry merger)

-ɛɹɪs (General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger)

(Greek mythology) A Trojan prince who eloped with Helen.


Paris

(mythology) Paris (prince of Troy, abductor of Helen)


Paris

de-proper noun

Paris m (proper noun, strong, genitive Paris' or (learned) Paridis or (with an article) Paris)

Paris' (genitive)
Paridis (genitive literary)
Paris (genitive)

From Latin Paris, from Ancient Greek Πάρις (Páris).


Paris

la-proper noun

Paris m sg (genitive Paridis or Paridos); third declension

Paridis (genitive)
Paridos (genitive)
Paris (nominative singular)
Paridis (genitive singular)
Paridos (genitive singular)
Paridī (dative singular)
Paridem (accusative singular)
Parin (accusative singular)
Paride (ablative singular)
Paris (singular vocative)
Pari (singular vocative)


Paris

sk-proper noun

Paris m pers (genitive singular Parida, declension pattern of chlap)

Parida (genitive singular)
chlap (declension-pattern-of)
Paris (nominative singular-only)
Parida (genitive singular-only)
Paridovi (dative singular-only)
Parida (accusative singular-only)
Paridovi (locative singular-only)
Paridom (instrumental singular-only)

bor+

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πάρις (Páris)


Paris

(Greek mythology) Paris, the Trojan prince


kappa

en-noun

kappa (countable and uncountable, plural kappas)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”). Doublet of kaph.

lbor

(finance) A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.


kappa

It was not quite possible for a kappa to go pale, but this one managed, shrinking partly into its shell.

2013, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Kitsune-Mochi: Kitsune Tales #2, page 94:

(Japanese mythology) A tortoise-like demon or imp.


kappa

kappa (nominative singular)
kapat (nominative plural)
kappa (accusative nominative singular)
kapat (accusative nominative plural)
kapan (accusative genitive singular)
kapat (accusative genitive plural)
kapan (genitive singular)
kappojen (genitive plural)
kappain (genitive plural rare)
kappaa (partitive singular)
kappoja (partitive plural)
kapassa (inessive singular)
kapoissa (inessive plural)
kapasta (elative singular)
kapoista (elative plural)
kappaan (illative singular)
kappoihin (illative plural)
kapalla (adessive singular)
kapoilla (adessive plural)
kapalta (ablative singular)
kapoilta (ablative plural)
kapalle (allative singular)
kapoille (allative plural)
kappana (essive singular)
kappoina (essive plural)
kapaksi (singular translative)
kapoiksi (plural translative)
kapatta (abessive singular)
kapoitta (abessive plural)
kapoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kappani (nominative singular)
kappani (nominative plural)
kappani (accusative nominative singular)
kappani (accusative nominative plural)
kappani (accusative genitive singular)
kappani (accusative genitive plural)
kappani (genitive singular)
kappojeni (genitive plural)
kappaini (genitive plural rare)
kappaani (partitive singular)
kappojani (partitive plural)
kapassani (inessive singular)
kapoissani (inessive plural)
kapastani (elative singular)
kapoistani (elative plural)
kappaani (illative singular)
kappoihini (illative plural)
kapallani (adessive singular)
kapoillani (adessive plural)
kapaltani (ablative singular)
kapoiltani (ablative plural)
kapalleni (allative singular)
kapoilleni (allative plural)
kappanani (essive singular)
kappoinani (essive plural)
kapakseni (singular translative)
kapoikseni (plural translative)
kapattani (abessive singular)
kapoittani (abessive plural)
kappoineni (comitative plural)
kappasi (nominative singular)
kappasi (nominative plural)
kappasi (accusative nominative singular)
kappasi (accusative nominative plural)
kappasi (accusative genitive singular)
kappasi (accusative genitive plural)
kappasi (genitive singular)
kappojesi (genitive plural)
kappaisi (genitive plural rare)
kappaasi (partitive singular)
kappojasi (partitive plural)
kapassasi (inessive singular)
kapoissasi (inessive plural)
kapastasi (elative singular)
kapoistasi (elative plural)
kappaasi (illative singular)
kappoihisi (illative plural)
kapallasi (adessive singular)
kapoillasi (adessive plural)
kapaltasi (ablative singular)
kapoiltasi (ablative plural)
kapallesi (allative singular)
kapoillesi (allative plural)
kappanasi (essive singular)
kappoinasi (essive plural)
kapaksesi (singular translative)
kapoiksesi (plural translative)
kapattasi (abessive singular)
kapoittasi (abessive plural)
kappoinesi (comitative plural)
kappamme (nominative singular)
kappamme (nominative plural)
kappamme (accusative nominative singular)
kappamme (accusative nominative plural)
kappamme (accusative genitive singular)
kappamme (accusative genitive plural)
kappamme (genitive singular)
kappojemme (genitive plural)
kappaimme (genitive plural rare)
kappaamme (partitive singular)
kappojamme (partitive plural)
kapassamme (inessive singular)
kapoissamme (inessive plural)
kapastamme (elative singular)
kapoistamme (elative plural)
kappaamme (illative singular)
kappoihimme (illative plural)
kapallamme (adessive singular)
kapoillamme (adessive plural)
kapaltamme (ablative singular)
kapoiltamme (ablative plural)
kapallemme (allative singular)
kapoillemme (allative plural)
kappanamme (essive singular)
kappoinamme (essive plural)
kapaksemme (singular translative)
kapoiksemme (plural translative)
kapattamme (abessive singular)
kapoittamme (abessive plural)
kappoinemme (comitative plural)
kappanne (nominative singular)
kappanne (nominative plural)
kappanne (accusative nominative singular)
kappanne (accusative nominative plural)
kappanne (accusative genitive singular)
kappanne (accusative genitive plural)
kappanne (genitive singular)
kappojenne (genitive plural)
kappainne (genitive plural rare)
kappaanne (partitive singular)
kappojanne (partitive plural)
kapassanne (inessive singular)
kapoissanne (inessive plural)
kapastanne (elative singular)
kapoistanne (elative plural)
kappaanne (illative singular)
kappoihinne (illative plural)
kapallanne (adessive singular)
kapoillanne (adessive plural)
kapaltanne (ablative singular)
kapoiltanne (ablative plural)
kapallenne (allative singular)
kapoillenne (allative plural)
kappananne (essive singular)
kappoinanne (essive plural)
kapaksenne (singular translative)
kapoiksenne (plural translative)
kapattanne (abessive singular)
kapoittanne (abessive plural)
kappoinenne (comitative plural)
kappansa (nominative singular)
kappansa (nominative plural)
kappansa (accusative nominative singular)
kappansa (accusative nominative plural)
kappansa (accusative genitive singular)
kappansa (accusative genitive plural)
kappansa (genitive singular)
kappojensa (genitive plural)
kappainsa (genitive plural rare)
kappaansa (partitive singular)
kappojaan (partitive plural)
kappojansa (partitive plural)
kapassaan (inessive singular)
kapassansa (inessive singular)
kapoissaan (inessive plural)
kapoissansa (inessive plural)
kapastaan (elative singular)
kapastansa (elative singular)
kapoistaan (elative plural)
kapoistansa (elative plural)
kappaansa (illative singular)
kappoihinsa (illative plural)
kapallaan (adessive singular)
kapallansa (adessive singular)
kapoillaan (adessive plural)
kapoillansa (adessive plural)
kapaltaan (ablative singular)
kapaltansa (ablative singular)
kapoiltaan (ablative plural)
kapoiltansa (ablative plural)
kapalleen (allative singular)
kapallensa (allative singular)
kapoilleen (allative plural)
kapoillensa (allative plural)
kappanaan (essive singular)
kappanansa (essive singular)
kappoinaan (essive plural)
kappoinansa (essive plural)
kapakseen (singular translative)
kapaksensa (singular translative)
kapoikseen (plural translative)
kapoiksensa (plural translative)
kapattaan (abessive singular)
kapattansa (abessive singular)
kapoittaan (abessive plural)
kapoittansa (abessive plural)
kappoineen (comitative plural)
kappoinensa (comitative plural)

(Japanese mythology) kappa (mythical creature)


kappa

kappa (nominative singular)
kappy (nominative plural)
kappy (genitive singular)
kapp (genitive plural)
kappie (dative singular)
kappom (dative plural)
kappę (accusative singular)
kappy (accusative plural)
kappą (instrumental singular)
kappami (instrumental plural)
kappie (locative singular)
kappach (locative plural)
kappo (singular vocative)
kappy (plural vocative)

(Japanese mythology) kappa (tortoise-like demon or imp)


驨

a mythical beast like a horse with a deer's antler


fe

feet (definite singular)
fe (indefinite plural)
fea (definite plural)
feene (definite plural)

From Old Norse fé, from Proto-Germanic *fehu.


fe

feet (definite singular)
fe (indefinite plural)
fea (definite plural)

From Old Norse fé, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu. Cognates include English fee.


魑

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *r̥ʰel): semantic 鬼 (“ghost”) + phonetic 离 (OC *rel, *r̥ʰel).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *n-d-raj (“demon; evil spirit; ghost”).


魊

Han char

魊 (Kangxi radical 194, 鬼+8, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈戈口一 (HIIRM), four-corner 2321₅, composition ⿺鬼或)

(mythology) a mythical creature which supposedly hurts humans by casting sand out of its mouth


鯀

Same word as 鮌 and 鯤 (OC *kuːn) (Schuessler, 2009), the latter of which is possibly related to 鵾 (“large bird”) (Liu, 1999).

(Chinese mythology) Gun (the father of Yu the Great)


鯪

(obsolete, mythology) legendary fish with human-like face and hands


鱬

(obsolete, Chinese mythology) a creature with a human face and a fish body


魅

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mrɯds): phonetic 未 (OC *mɯds) + semantic 鬼 (“spirit”).

Han compound

魑魅

鬼魅

(mythology) a kind of legendary evil spirit


鴸

a mythical bird resembling an owl with human hands, said to bring bad luck


鰲

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋaːw): phonetic 敖 (OC *ŋaːw) + semantic 魚 (“fish”)
Possibly a back-formation from 黿 (OC *ŋoːn, *ŋon, “large turtle”) with final -n discarded due to folk etymology (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

(Chinese mythology) large mythological sea turtle


titan

titan (indefinite nominative singular)
titans (genitive indefinite singular)
titanen (definite nominative singular)
titanens (definite genitive singular)
titaner (indefinite nominative plural)
titaners (genitive indefinite plural)
titanerna (definite nominative plural)
titanernas (definite genitive plural)


鶼

(Chinese mythology) the jian, a mythical bird with one eye and one wing


鴆

Guo Pu
Rites of Zhou
Siku Quanshu
Wu Renchen
Zuozhuan

Same word as 酖 (OC *l'ums, “to poison (v.); poison (n.)”) (e.g. in Zuozhuan, "Xi 30"https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%98%A5%E7%A7%8B%E5%B7%A6%E6%B0%8F%E5%82%B3/%E5%83%96%E5%85%AC#%E5%82%B3_30), exopassive of 沈 (OC *l'um, “to put poison in liquid”) (e.g. in Rites of Zhou https://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en&id=37265) (Schuessler, 2007). See 沈 & 沉 (chén) for further etymology.

och-l

I bade the zhen-bird to be my go-between; the zhen-bird told me: "Not good!"

The Verses of Chu, 4ᵗʰ century BCE – 2ⁿᵈ century CE

Wú lìng zhèn wéi méi xī, zhèn gào yú yǐ bùhǎo.

吾令鴆為媒兮，鴆告余以不好。

吾令鸩为媒兮，鸩告余以不好。

120-li more northeastwards, [there's a place] called Mount Nüji; … as for the birds, there are many white jiāo-pheasants, many dí-pheasants, and many zhèn-hawks.

Yòu dōngběi bǎi'èrshí lǐ, yuē Nǚjī zhī shān,...... Qí niǎo duō báijiāo, duō dí, duō zhèn.

又東北百二十里，曰女几之山，……其鳥多白鷮，多翟，多鴆。

又东北百二十里，曰女几之山，……其鸟多白𱉬，多翟，多鸩。

(Chinese mythology) the zhenniao (a hawk-like, snake-eating bird with poisonous feathers)


鵬

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (鵬):
* → Korean: 붕(鵬) (bung)
* → Vietnamese: bằng (鵬)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯːŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): phonetic 朋 (OC *bɯːŋ, “phoenix”) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”)
This has been related to 風 (OC *plum, “wind”) (Schuessler, 2007) and also by Wang (1982) to 鳳 (OC *bums, “male fenghuang”).

Han compound

I don't know how many thousand li the Pengʹs back is.

鵬之背，不知其幾千里也。

鹏之背，不知其几千里也。

(Chinese mythology) peng (enormous bird)


鵬

鵬 (canonical)
鵬 (canonical)
hō (romanization)
bō (romanization)

Kyūjitai
Peng (mythology)
Shinjitai
Tōkyō
ja:鵬

(Chinese mythology) peng: a fabled large bird thought to have wings measuring 3,000 li and can soar up to 90,000 li

鯤鵬

something extremely large; kun (large mythical fish) and peng (large mythical bird)


鯤

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (鯤):
* → Japanese: 鯤(こん) (kon)
* → Korean: 곤(鯤) (gon)
* → Vietnamese: côn (鯤)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kuːn): semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 昆 (OC *kuːn).
; “fish roe”
; “kun (sea monster)”

Han compound

The size of the kun, I do not know how many thousand li it is.

鯤之大，不知其幾千里也。

鲲之大，不知其几千里也。

(Chinese mythology) kun, a large fish that transforms into a roc (鵬／鹏 (péng))


鯤

(Chinese mythology) a mythological giant fish that is several thousand 里 (ri, “leagues”) long and that lives in the northern seas


鵺

其時上下手々に火をともいて、これを御らんじみ給ふに、かしらは猿、むくろは狸、尾はくちなは、手足は虎の姿なり。なく聲鵼にぞにたりける。おそろしなどもをろか也。[...]去る應保のころほひ、二条院御在位の時、鵼といふ化鳥禁中にないて、しば々々宸襟をなやます事ありき。[...]ころはさ月廿日あまりの、まだよひの事なるに、鵼たゞ一聲おとづれて、二聲ともなかざりけり。[...]頼政はかりことに、まづおほかぶらをとてつがひ、鵼の聲しつる内裏のうへへぞいあげたる。鵼かぶらのをとにおどろいて、虚空にしばしひゝめいたり。二の矢に小鏑ととつがひ、ひふつとゐきて、鵼とかぶらとならべて前にぞおとしたる。[...]頼政にかづけ給ふとて、「昔の養由は雲の外の鴈をいき。今の頼政は雨のうちに鵼をゐたり」とぞ感ぜられける。

a mystical creature with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the tail of a snake, and the legs of a tiger; similar to a chimera


鸓

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rul, *rulʔ): phonetic 畾 (OC *ruːl, “bird”) + semantic 鳥.

Han compound

(Chinese mythology) a bird with two heads and four legs that resembles the magpie


鶬

(Chinese mythology) a kind of mythological bird


鸞

luan (mythical bird related to the fenghuang; sometimes translated as simurgh)


鯱

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鯱 (shachi).
Spelling pronunciation, as 虎 (hǔ).

obor

(Japanese mythology) shachihoko (carp with the head of a tiger)


鯱

鯱 (canonical)
鯱 (canonical)
shachi (romanization)

(Japanese mythology) a shachihoko, a carp with the head of a tiger


鯱

Synonym of 松毬魚 (matsukasa-uo, “Japanese pinecone fish}, Monocentris japonica”)


龗

⟨okami₁⟩ → */okamʲi/ → /okami/
From Old Japanese.

吾岡之於可美尓言而令落雪之摧之彼所尓塵家武

waga oka no okami ni iite furashimeshi yuki no kudakeshi soko ni chirikemu

(Japanese mythology) a dragon kami of water (rain, snow, etc.)


Arcadia

From Latin Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).

Arcadia
Arcadia (ancient region)
Arcadia (utopia)

A number of places in the United States:

A neighbourhood of Phoenix and Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona.

Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County#English

A city in Los Angeles County, California.

Issaquena County
Issaquena County#English

A ghost town in Issaquena County, Mississippi.

An unincorporated community in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

census-designated place
census-designated place

Spartanburg County
Spartanburg County#English

A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

Botetourt County
Botetourt County#English

An unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia.

Spotsylvania County
Spotsylvania County#English

An unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.


鳳

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (鳳):
* → Japanese: 鳳(ほう) (hō)
* → Korean: 봉(鳳) (bong)
* → Vietnamese: phụng (鳳), phượng (鳳)

→ English: Feng

→ Zhuang: fungh

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bums): phonetic 凡 (OC *bom) + 鳥 (“bird”).
In the oracle bone script, the script of 鳳 (OC *bums) was often phonetically borrowed to represent 風 (OC *plum, *plums, “wind”). Subsequent forms of the script of 風 were also derived from parts of the bronze inscription of 鳳.

Han compound

(Chinese mythology) male fenghuang (a mythological bird)


鳳

ja-noun

鳳(ほう) • (hō)

(Chinese mythology) feng: a fabled male fire-bird, thought to be a manifestation of a saint


鬼

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (鬼):
* → Japanese: 鬼(き) (ki)
* → Korean: 귀(鬼) (gwi)
* → Vietnamese: quỷ (鬼)

→ Thai: กุ๊ย (gúi)

Characters in the same phonetic series (鬼) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a kneeling man or figure with an ugly face (甶). The ugly face could be a mask. The lower right “dot” is a small 厶; it is a residual tail that was added later – compare 离. Related to 畏 (variant 𠂽), which originally depicts a ghost standing with a stick in hand.
Compare 異 (“different, strange”), in which the 田 also derives from a face and indicates a mask. Compare also 禺, in which the top component represents either a mask or a monkey's head.
Unknown. May be related to:
* 威 (OC *qul, “to overawe, to terrorise”) with k-nominalisation and endoactive tone B, lit. "the thing which is doing the overawing" (Childs-Johnson, 1995 apud Schuessler, 2007; Baxter & Sagart, 2014), or
* 歸 (OC *klul, “to return”) (Shuowen Jiezi https://ctext.org/shuo-wen-jie-zi/gui-bu?searchu=%E6%AD%B8&searchmode=showall#result; Liezi https://ctext.org/liezi/tian-rui?searchu=%E9%AC%BC%E6%AD%B8%E4%B9%9F&searchmode=showall#result; Carr, 1985 apud Schuessler, 2007), yet Baxter & Sagart (2014) consider this connection, while semantically plausible, to be a folk etymology; as 鬼 (OC *k-ʔujʔ) and 歸 (OC *[k]ʷəj) had different Old Chinese rhymes & thus were likely unrelated.
See also 詭 (OC *krolʔ, “to deceive; peculiar”).

Han etyl

這房子常常鬧鬼。

这房子常常闹鬼。

人之鬼，非人也。

They prepare the ancestral temple (to receive the tablet of the departed), and there they present offerings to the disembodied spirit.

Classic of Filial Piety, circa 475 – 221 BCE

為之宗廟，以鬼享之。

为之宗庙，以鬼享之。

ghost; apparition; spirit (Classifier: 隻／只)

小鬼

機靈鬼

机灵鬼


Nike

From Ancient Greek Νίκη (Níkē), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”).

(Greek mythology) The goddess of victory and triumph; Athena's companion.


Nike

de-proper noun

Nike f (proper noun, genitive Nike or (without the article) Nikes)

Nike (genitive)
Nikes (genitive)
Nike (nominative singular)
Nike (genitive singular)
Nikes (genitive singular)
Nike (dative singular)
Nike (accusative singular)


Nike

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Νίκη (Níkē), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”).


Vulcan

From Latin Vulcānus, probably from Etruscan although very unclear, but unknown meaning and further origin (see more in Latin entry). Doublet of bolcane and volcano.

The goddess Venus was the wife of Vulcan.

(Roman mythology) The god of volcanoes and fire, especially the forge, also the patron of all craftsmen, especially blacksmiths. The Roman counterpart of Hephaestus.


fireball

/ˈfaɪəɹˌbɔl/

Chelyabinsk meteor
Nevada Test Site
Operation Upshot–Knothole

The noun is derived from fire (noun) + ball (noun). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.

tulipallo

bag or ball filled with combustible material; (heraldry) charge depicting a disc-shaped bombshell

He placed his arms in a blocking position, but even so, the fireball threw all three of them, Kylie, Percival, and Kelly, onto the wall.

2008, Franklin Newman, “Sleeping with the Enemy”, in The Princess of Flourae (The Knights of Callistor; 2), [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 90:

At 7:45 p.m. there was a sudden “whooshing” noise, and a mercilessly intense fireball exploded from under the escalator, ballooned up into the ticket hall and ignited all combustible material in the area. As a result of the flashover of the fireball, the temperature rose by several hundred degrees in a matter of seconds, and it was believed that it reached 600°C with zero visibility.

2011, Nick Bracken, Sue Black, “King’s Cross Underground Fire, November 18, 1987”, in Sue Black, G. Sunderland, Lucina Hackman, Xanthé Mallet, editors, Disaster Victim Identification: Experience and Practice (Global Perspectives on Disaster Victim Identification Series), Boca Raton, Fla.; London: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 65:

In a moment, he was caught by the blast. He threw up his arms to cover his head as the surge of energy created by the fireball threw him aside.

2014 October, Don Pendleton [pseudonym], chapter 14, in Maximum Chaos (A Gold Eagle Book; The Executioner; 431), Don Mills, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN, page 121:

At the time of this photo, Royal Marine Gunner Bryan Gasson is pretty much dead centre in this photo, and yes, that means he is literally inside that socking great fireball as the magazines detonate.

2021 March 14, Drachinifel [pseudonym], 1:05:17 from the start, in The Drydock – Episode 137, archived from the original on 2022-11-08:

A ball of fire, especially one associated with an explosion, or (fiction, mythology) thrown as a weapon.


doom

English: doom

Middle Scots: dome, dume

Inherited from Old English dōm, from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.


sylvan

Borrowed from Medieval Latin sylvanus, possibly via Middle French sylvain, from Latin silvanus, cognate with Latin Silvānus (“Roman god of the woods”), from silva (“forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). The ⟨y⟩ in sylvanus and its descendants is due to influence from Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”), transliterated in the Latin style as hyle. Analysable as sylva (“silva”) + -an.

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And ſeeing it is ſo generall a report, and ſo many auerre it eyther from their owne triall or from others, that are of indubitable honeſtie and credite, that the Syluanes and Fawnes, commonly called Incubi, haue often iniured women, deſiring and acting carnally with them: […]

1610, Saint Augustine, “Whether It be Credible that the Angels being of an Incorporeall Nature, should Lust after the Women of the Earth, and Marrying Them, Beget Gyants of Them. Chap. 23.”, in J[ohn] H[ealey], transl., St. Augustine, of the Citie of God: […], [London]: […] George Eld, →OCLC, book XV, page 561:

214. A Revel and Sacrifice to Pan. The frequent repetition of these subjects shows how deeply the artist's mind was imbued with the love of sylvan rites and ceremonies, characteristic of the fabled golden age, when "In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan." […] [N]ear to her are a nymph and a faun sitting together; the attention of the former is at the moment attracted by a sylvan, who is dragging a goat by the leg; […]

1837, John Smith, “The Works of Nicolas Poussin”, in A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters; in which is Included a Short Biographical Notice of the Artists, with a Copious Discussion of Their Principal Pictures; a Statement of the Prices at which such Pictures have been Sold at Public Sales on the Continent and in England; a Reference to the Galleries and Private Collections, in which a Large Portion are at Present; and the Names of the Artists by whom They have been Engraved: To which is Added, a Brief Notice of the Scholars & Imitators of the Great Masters of the above Schools, 8th part, London: Published by Smith & Son, 137, New Bond Street, →OCLC, page 113:

Her private orchards, walled on every side, / To lawless sylvans all access denied. / How oft the satyrs and the wanton fawns, / Who haunt the forests, or frequent the lawns, / The god whose ensign scares the birds of prey, / And old Silenus, youthful in decay, / Employed their wiles and unavailing care / To pass the fences, and surprise the fair!

1847, Alexander Pope, “Vertuminus and Pomona. From the Fourteenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.”, in The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, new edition, London: H[enry] G[eorge] Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, pages 277–278, lines 19–26:

The sylvans who guarded the palace were bearded buffoons, lazy and stupid but fierce. Without the help of the Silenus, prefect of the satyrs, the cocky satyrs may have fought with the sylvans.

1976, Jane Krier, The English Masque: Vanished Court Drama (unpublished M.A. dissertation), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, page 64:

(mythology) A fabled deity of the wood; a faun, a satyr.