Goguryeo

/ɡəʊˈɡʊəjəʊ/

/ɡoʊˈɡʊəɹjoʊ/

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 고구려(高句麗) (Goguryeo). Compare Goryeo and Korea.

(historical) The language spoken in the Goguryeo kingdom.


Havanese

A native or inhabitant of Havana in Cuba.


Klamath

census-designated place
census-designated place

Del Norte County
Del Norte County#English

A census-designated place in Del Norte County, California, United States.


Pictish

en-adj

Pictish (comparative more Pictish, superlative most Pictish)

more Pictish (comparative)
most Pictish (superlative)

The Gothic monarch and the Pictish peer


Pictish

The extinct, poorly attested language spoken by the Picts.


Biscayan

The westernmost of the modern varieties of the Basque language, spoken in Biscay and neighbouring parts of Álava and Gipuzkoa.


reptiloid

Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the colour blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms.

1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 15, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A reptilian humanoid creature.


Karan

A female given name of North American usage, variant of Karen.


dje

Cyrillic script
Appendix:Cyrillic script#English

The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ђ / ђ.


onerosity

From onerous + -ity, from Latin onerositas.

It may be presumed to be a necessary ingredient in onerosity, that the obligation to be fulfilled is a legal one.

1845, John Hill Burton, The Law of Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Mercantile Sequestration, in Scotland, W. Tait, page 145:

(Scots law) The legal state of affairs resulting from being done or given in return for receipt of something of value.


Yooper

(informal) A native or inhabitant of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.


Oneida

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Derived from Oneida Onyota'a꞉ka (“men of upright stones”).

der

"Tutaktsi'kwáni'" is Oneida for "kiss me".


Narragansett

en-noun

Narragansett (plural Narragansetts or Narragansett)

Narragansetts (plural)
Narragansett (plural)

/ˌnɛrəˈɡænsət/

A member of an Algonquian Native American tribe that formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.


Zac

A diminutive of the male given names Zachariah or Zachary


Onondaga

Borrowed from Onondaga Onöñda’gaga’. Compare Seneca Onödowáʼga:.

A member of a Native American tribe originally inhabiting Onondaga County, New York.


Onondaga

An ancient village of the Onondaga people in what is now in upstate New York that served as the capital of the Iroquois Confederacy.

A town in Onondaga County, New York, United States.


Mothman

(cryptozoology, ufology) A legendary creature, regarded as a cryptid or alien, reportedly seen in West Virginia in the mid-1960s.


Amyas

From Old French Amis, a given name and nickname, from Latin amīcus (“friend”). Later interpreted as a masculine form of Amy.

The morrow next about the wanted howre, / The Dwarfe cald at the doore of Amyas, / To come forthwith unto his Ladies bowre.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 59:

Because there was fellow-feeling of old in merry England, in county and in town; and these are Devon men, and men of Bideford, whose names are Amyas Leigh of Burrough, John Staveley, Michael Heard, and Jonas Marshall of Bideford, and Thomas Braund of Clovelly: and they, the first of all English mariners, have sailed round the world with Francis Drake, and are come hither to give God thanks.

1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Macmillan and Co., published 1871, page 17:

She was an admirer of Kingsley. That's why she called her son Amyas. His father scoffed at the name - but he gave in.

1942, Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs, HarperCollins, published 1994, →ISBN, page 39:

(literary, rare) A male given name from Latin.


Ceylonese

en-adj

Ceylonese (comparative more Ceylonese, superlative most Ceylonese)

more Ceylonese (comparative)
most Ceylonese (superlative)


Tibby

A diminutive of the female given name Isabel


Berry

Variant of Bury and (in dialects with Mary-marry-merry merger) Barry. The given name is also a pet form of names beginning with Ber-.

Beresford Conway. All my pals call me Berry.

1930 P. G. Wodehouse, Big Money, Colliers' Weekly, Vol.86, page 110

Since my father's name was Berry Gordy, he named me Berry Gordy. There's no middle name.

1979, Berry Gordy, Movin' Up. Pop Gordy Tells His Story, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 9:

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.


Berry

From berry; also a pet form of Beryl, Berenice, or Berinthia.

"I'm Beryl Shaddock. Call me Berry," the girl said.

2002, James Hadley Chase, Not My Thing, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 152:

"What's with your dad calling you 'Berry' anyway? What kind of name is 'Berry'?" "Oh, it's short for Huckleberry," she replied, as if that explained everything.

2005, Sandra-Kay Austin, The Old Man's Secret, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 34:

(rare) A female given name from English.


Petre

From a medieval spelling variant of Peter.

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek, mostly transferred back from the surname.


Tuscarora

Frederick County
Frederick County#English

An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland.

An unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada.

Schuylkill County
Schuylkill County#English

A census-designated place in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.


Alanis

A feminine form of Alan best known for the Canadian singer Alanis Morissette whose father was named Alan.

A female given name from the Celtic languages.


Alemanni

From Latin Alemannī (“the confederation of German tribes related to Suebi who lived near the upper reaches of Danube”).

der

The hasty army of volunteers gradually coalesced into a great and permanent nation, and, as it was composed from so many different tribes, assumed the name of Alemanni, or Allmen ; to denote at once their various lineage, and their common bravery.

1846, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, page 271:

The Alemanni were originally composed of fragments of several Germanic peoples, and they remained a loosely knit confederation of tribes in the Suebi group (see Suebi).

2011 September 15, “Alemanni”, in Encyclopædia Britannica:

A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century.


Huw

A male given name from Welsh, equivalent to English Hugh


Hero

You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb man; I would have you think so; but on my allegiance mark you this, on my allegiance: he is in love. With who? now that is your Grace's part. Mark how short his answer is: with Hero, Leonato's short daughter.

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek of English-speakers.


Volsci

(historical) An ancient Italic people and culture from the first century of the Roman republic.

Volsques

an ancient Italic people and culture from the first century of the Roman republic


Porscha

Probably from the luxury car brand Porsche.

But when her second child, Porscha, was still in diapers, Apryll's husband, a delivery driver, began to change.

2003, Working Mother, volume 26, number 5, page 48:

The Woman's Guide to Money will ask you to not only take responsibility for your life as Porscha did in chapter three of her autobiography, but it will also ask you to entertain the possibility of a chapter four and five in your life.

2008, Kelley Keehn, The Woman's Guide to Money, page 12:

Then Porscha sees Ramone standing in line behind two of the Newnan High girls at the snack bar. He was talking and laughing with them.

2010, Tamala Callaway, Super Natural: New Beginnings, page 81:

A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th century African-American usage.


Wilkie

en-proper noun

Wilkie (countable and uncountable, plural Wilkies)

From a Scottish diminutive of Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin.

(countable) A male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use often transferred back from the surname.


Wilsonian

(UK politics) Of or relating to British politician Harold Wilson or his policies.


Clancy

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhlannchaidh (“descendant of a person named Red Warrior”), from flann (“blood-red”).


Radhi

bor

Arabic رَاضِي (rāḍī)


Peelite

From Peel + -ite, after Sir Robert Peel.

(UK politics, historical) One of a breakaway faction of the British Conservative Party in the nineteenth century, characterised by a commitment to free trade and a managerial, almost technocratic, approach to government.


starman

(science fiction) An alien; a person who comes from another star system.


Suky

An 18th-century pet form of Susan and Susanna.


Borôro

An indigenous language of Brazil believed to be part of the Macro-Gê family.


Angor

A language of Papua New Guinea in Sandaun province. It belongs to the small Senagi family.


Morori

An endangered language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is a sole member of the Moraori branch within the large Trans-New Guinea family.


Dobby

A male given name (See Dobby (disambiguation); it lists several real persons with the given name Dobby.)


Hob

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robin, and separately as a French diminutive of Robert.

(archaic) A nickname for Robin Goodfellow, Puck; (later) the devil


Dobie

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert.


Vedda

From Sinhalese වැද්දා (wæddā, “hunter”), from Sanskrit वेति (veti, “hunt”), q.v.


Zou

The Kukish language spoken by the Zou people.


surnominal

Blend of surname + nominal. Equivalent to sur- + nominal.


Slavonian

en-adj

Slavonian (comparative more Slavonian, superlative most Slavonian)

more Slavonian (comparative)
most Slavonian (superlative)

Of or relating to the Slavs or their language.


Turcoman

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Classical Persian ترکمان (turkamān). Doublet of Turkman and Turkmen.


Montagnais

Borrowed from French montagnais, from montagne (“mountain”) + -ais.

An Algonquian language spoken by approximately 11,000 people in Eastern Canada.


Innu

Derived from Montagnais inniw (“man”), from Proto-Algonquian *erenyiwa. Not related to Inuit.


Townsend

en-proper noun

Townsend (countable and uncountable, plural Townsends)

From town + -s- + end. From Middle English toun (“hamlet, village”) + ende (“end”).


Yprois

First attested in nominal use in May 1845 and in adjectival use in 1890; from the French noun Yprois and adjective yprois, both from Ypres.

A few amongst them even fled, some of whom in endeavouring to swim across the Lys were drowned, and others who made for the city were stopped by the Yprois who manned the ramparts, and driven back to the fight.

1845 May, “The Battle of the Spurs”, in Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, II, page 20:

They were the work of the Yprois Taillebert, who, both in stone and wood, has left in his native town and its neighbourhood incontestible proofs of his activity and talent.

1910, Thomas Francis Bumpus, The Cathedrals and Churches of Belgium, page 123:

David Nicholas […] provides fascinating detail about the mutual indebtedness of the Yprois at the end of the thirteenth century.

2010 June, Martha C. Howell, “Introduction”, in Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, footnote 42, page 26:

An inhabitant of the city of Ypres; (also, more broadly) an inhabitant of the municipality of the same name.


Bororo

The only nonextinct member of the Bororoan language family, spoken in the Central Mato Grosso region of Brazil.


Heartbreak Kid

Nickname for professional wrestler Shawn Michaels.


El Tel

(slang) Nickname of Terry Venables (1943–2023), English footballer and football manager.


Giggsy

A nickname for the footballer Ryan Giggs.


Le God

(informal) A nickname for Matthew Le Tissier.


Scholesy

A nickname of the English footballer Paul Scholes.


Becks

A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca


Parry

Anglicised from Welsh ap Harri, "son of Henry".


Crouchy

"Crouch. It was Crouch who realized it."
"Okay. So then what? After Moncrieff dies, Crouchy says to the kid — what?"

2004, Andrew Klavan, Dynamite Road, page 175:

Crouch suffered a badly broken nose during last Saturday's 4-0 win over Sheffield United.
He's fit to play against United tomorrow, but is clearly uncomfortable with the knock.
"Crouchy is training and obviously wants to play in both these games," explained Benitez.

2007 March 2, Chris Bascombe, “Crouch goes for broke”, in Liverpool Echo:

During that year our fitness co-ordinator was Robert Crouch. Crouchy had been running the Adelaide University gym for years and was to be a massive support to me later on, when I broke my leg in Sri Lanka in 1999.

2010, Jason Gillespie, Dizzy: The Jason Gillespie Story:

Crouchy, don't go any further until I see the boss.

2011, Christopher J. Holcroft, Finding Thomas:

What you doing 'ere, Crouchy? This house belongs to my family and you ain't welcome.

A nickname for somebody with the surname Crouch.


Daffy

The name Daffy stuck, and to make it worse, Tony added "Duck" as an afterthought. For weeks, he led all the other kids in a chorus of quacks whenever Daphne appeared, but she ignored them.

1983, Mary Downing Hahn, Daphne's Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 5:

A diminutive of the female given name Daphne

"Call me Daffy," Daffodil interrupted with a demure smile.

1997, Emily Dalton, Wake Me With a Kiss, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 11:

A diminutive of the female given name Daffodil


episemon

From Byzantine Greek ἐπίσημον (epísēmon), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσημος (epísēmos, “distinguished; remarkable”), from ἐπί (epí, “above”) + σῆμα (sêma, “sign”).


Addy

My name is Addison Jane Dawson, but you can call me Addy; everyone else does.

2009, J. Scott Romig, The Lookout Tree, Author House, →ISBN, page 1:

A diminutive of the female given names Adelaide, Adeline, Adrienne, or Addison, from the Germanic languages or French or transferred from the surname.

"Let be, Addy, let be. Ben will be joking. Why, he's i' the right to laugh at me--I canna help laughing at myself." "I shan't loose him till he promises to let the door alone," said Adam.

1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Adam Bede/Chapter I”, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

A diminutive of the male given name Adam, from Hebrew.


Victour

(rare) Obsolete spelling of Victor.: a male given name.


Hectour

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek


Aquitanian

The extinct Vasconic language of Aquitania. See Wikipedia


EBE

Initialism of extraterrestrial biological entity.


Jamaican Creole

An English-based creole spoken in and around Jamaica, additionally influenced by various African languages, particularly Akan.


Thuringian

/θəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.ən/

(historical) A member of an ancient Germanic tribe inhabiting central Germany.

Thüringer

a member of an ancient Germanic tribe inhabiting central Germany


Manny

A diminutive of the male given name Emmanuel.

A diminutive of the male given name Manfred.


decern

en-verb

decern (third-person singular simple present decerns, present participle decerning, simple past and past participle decerned)

decerns (present singular third-person)
decerning (participle present)
decerned (participle past)
decerned (past)

First attested in late Middle English circa 1425; from the French décerner, from the Latin dēcernō (“I decide, pronounce a decision”), from dē (“of, from, away from”) + cernō (“I separate, distinguish”), whence the English cern. In Old French, the forms of décerner were frequently conflated with those of descerner, discerner; the two verbs were not clearly distinguished until the 16th century; hence, in English also, decern is found with the sense discern.

der

(transitive, Scots law) Decree by judicial sentence.

Decide; determine; decree.
Decree by judicial sentence.
with simple object

Decree by judicial sentence that something be done.

He purſued Andrew Houſtoun upon his promiſe, to give him the like Sallary for the next year, and in abſence obtained him to be holden as confeſt and Decerned.

1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), pages 547–548

Decree a person etc. to be or to do something by judicial sentence.  (in the phrase “to decern in”, obsolete) To mulct in by decree of court.

Decide; determine; decree.
Decree by judicial sentence.
intransitive

transferred sense
transferred sense#English

Decide; determine; decree.
Decree by judicial sentence.
transferred sense


Rhemish

en-adj

Rhemish (comparative more Rhemish, superlative most Rhemish)

more Rhemish (comparative)
most Rhemish (superlative)


Eftychia

From Greek Ευτυχία (Eftychía), from Ancient Greek εὐτυχία (eutukhía, “good luck”).

der

A female given name from Ancient Greek, meaning happiness or good luck (archaic).


Euthemia

/ɛfˈθiːmɪ.ə/

From Ancient Greek Εὐθυμία (Euthumía), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + θυμός (thumós, “disposition”).

affix

A female given name from Ancient Greek, meaning "of a good disposition".


Thom

A male given name of less common usage, variant of Tom


Nuxálk

from Bella Coola nuχalk (“Bella Coola Valley”)

uder

xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓

A Salishan language spoken in the vicinity of the Canadian town of Bella Coola, known for long strings of obstruents without any intervening vowels, such as xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ [xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ].


Utahan

en-adj

Utahan (comparative more Utahan, superlative most Utahan)

more Utahan (comparative)
most Utahan (superlative)


Pennsylvania German

en-noun

Pennsylvania German (countable and uncountable, plural Pennsylvania Germans)

(uncountable) The High German language, descending from Palatine German, which is spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch. (Not to be confused with the Low German language Plautdietsch which is also spoken in Pennsylvania.)


Chipewyan

From Plains Cree ᒌᐘᔮᐣ (Cīpwayān, “pointed skin”), from ᒌᐚᐤ (cīpwāw, “to be pointed”) + ᐘᔮᐣ (wayān, “skin, hide”) — a reference to the cut and style of Chipewyan parkas.

bor

The Northern Athabascan language spoken by this tribe.


Sofana

From Arabic سُفَانَة (sufāna). The name was famously borne by a daughter of the poet Hatim al-Tai.


Eastern Abenaki

An extinct Abenaki (Algonquian) language, also called Penobscot, spoken in parts of the northeastern United States and in Quebec, related to Western Abenaki.


Western Abenaki

The Abenaki language (an Algonquian) language), originally spoken in the northeastern United States; now spoken in Quebec.


Penobscot

An extinct Abenaki (Algonquian) language, spoken in parts of the northeastern United States and in Quebec, related to Western Abenaki.


Bungi

1776 sense of people, 1951 language. From Algonquian, compare Cree ᐸᐦᑭ (pahki, “part, thing, a little”), Ojibwe bangii (“part, thing, a little”)/ᐸᓐᑶ.

cog

A creole language formerly spoken in the Red River settlement of Manitoba.


Teague

From the Irish first name Tadhg. Cognate with English taig (“A Catholic”). Compare Mick and Paddy.


Caz

A diminutive of the female given name Carol


Proto-Austronesian

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Austronesian languages comprising Malayo-Polynesian and Formosan languages.


Ros

A diminutive of the female given name Rosalind.

A diminutive of the female given name Rosamund.


Old Javanese

The oldest attested form of Javanese language spoken up to the thirteenth century.


Kawi

The theory that Balinese religion was a branch of Indian Hinduism led the society to believe that the literature of ancient Bali should be in the classical language of India, but in fact the Kawi language has absolutely no grammatical connection to Sanskrit.

2012, Adrian Vickers, Bali: A Paradise Created, 2nd edition, Tuttle, page 118:

A literary and prose language based on Old Javanese with a large number of Sanskrit loanwords, and used on the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok; or the script used in writing this language.


ancient astronaut

en-noun

ancient astronaut (plural ancient astronauts)

Is it possible for scientists to demonstrate that ancient astronauts have ever been here? No.

2001, Charles M. Wynn, Arthur W. Wiggins, Sidney Harris, Quantum leaps in the wrong direction: where real science ends-- and pseudoscience begins, Joseph Henry Press, page 58

Although academics have spent many hours showing the errors in von Däniken's reasoning, the Ancient Astronaut notion remains alive.

2002, Michael Shermer, The Skeptic encyclopedia of pseudoscience, Volume 2, ABC-CLIO, page 530:

According to certain authors, intelligent extraterrestrial beings called ancient astronauts or ancient aliens have visited Earth, and this contacts is connected with the origins or development of human cultures, technologies, and religions.

2011, George Romero, The Rescue, George Romero, page 32:

Any of the extraterrestrial beings that, according to the pseudoscientific belief of paleocontact, visited Earth in the distant past, influencing human culture, technology, or religion.

ancien astronaute

extraterrestrial associated with paleocontact


Lawanda

A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


Te Deum

From the hymn's opening words, Te Deum laudamus ("Thee, O God, we praise").

Many of these actions […] further reverberated in public consciousness through the ceremonial celebration of Te Deums, religious rejoicings which were periodically commanded in every parish in the land to give collective thanks for the ruler's triumphs.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 3:

A religious service in which the singing of the hymn forms a principal part; a public thanksgiving.


Ayapaneco

A near-extinct Mixe-Zoque language of Mexico.


Lardil

A moribund Tangkic Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria.


Mabire

A nearly extinct Chadic language spoken in Oulek village in Chad.


Tehuelche

From Mapudungun, meaning "fierce people".

A nearly extinct Chonan language spoken in Patagonia.


Pintupi

Western Desert language
Western Desert language

A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in central Australia; part of the Western Desert language group.


Yolngu

From a word meaning "person" in the Yolngu lects.

The Pama-Nyungan lects spoken by these people, when regarded as a single language or language group; the Murngic languages.


disgradation

(Scots law, obsolete) degradation; a stripping of titles and honours


rerefief

From French arrière-fief. See rear (“hinder”), and fief.

by these means the feodal polity was greatly extended; these inferior feudatories (who held what are called in the Scots law "rerefiefs") being under similar obligations of fealty

1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

(Scots law, historical) A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an undertenant.


Xav

A diminutive of the male given name Xavier.


Cayuga

Borrowing from Cayuga gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (“they live in the big swamp”)

bor

An indigenous people of North America, part of the Iroquois Confederacy.


Cayuga

The Northern Iroquoian language of the Cayuga people.

Haldimand County
Haldimand County#English

An unincorporated community, the county seat of Haldimand County, Ontario; named for the Cayuga people.


UFO religion

Raelians follow a UFO religion.

More particularly, and important for understanding much UFO religions, is Blavatsky's belief that certain masters dwelt on Venus.

2003, Christopher Hugh Partridge, UFO religions, Routledge, page 10:

UFO religions are even stranger than science fiction.

2004, Susan J. Palmer, Aliens adored: Raël's UFO religion, Rutgers University Press, page 3:

UFO religions drink deeply from the waters of occulture, while, at the same time, seeking to reconcile their ideas with a contemporary secular and scientific worldview.

2006, Christopher Hugh Partridge, The re-enchantment of the West: alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture, and occulture, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 167:

A religion in which extraterrestrials figure prominently.


BCer

British Columbian
British Columbian#English


Wik

Any of their various languages, belonging to the Paman language family.


Lower Silesian

A West Germanic language spoken in Poland, as well as in northeastern Czechia and in eastern Germany. This language (or group of dialects) is nearly extinct.


om mani padme hum

From Sanskrit ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ, (oṃ maṇi padme hūm̐,, “the wish-fulfilling jewel in the lotus”), internally derived from मणि (maṇi, “wish-fulfilling jewel”) and पद्म (padma, “lotus”). ॐ (oṃ) and हूँ (hūm̐) are not translated.

ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ,

(Buddhism) A mantra associated with Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, the primary mantra of Tibetan Buddhism.


Silesian German

A nearly extinct West Germanic language (group of Central German dialects), formerly spoken in Silesia, chiefly Lower Silesia (now Poland), and among the expellee community in Germany (now chiefly elderly people).


Dumbfuckistan

(derogatory, vulgar) The United States of America.

[…] an unapologetic liberal screed about the deteriorating state of our national dialogue, which is dragging down our culture, our politics, and our lives.

2016, Ian Gurvitz, Welcome to Dumbfuckistan: The Dumbed-Down, Disinformed, Dysfunctional, Disunited States of America:

(derogatory, US, vulgar) Red states collectively.


Galician-Asturian

A set of Galicia dialects found in Asturias.


Proto-Athabaskan

An undocumented hypothetical language from which all the Athabaskan languages later emerged.


oversman

(Scots law) An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters disagree.


tailzie

From French tailler (“to cut”). See tail (“a limitation”). For the z, compare etymology of English Mackenzie.

(historical, Scots law) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.


moonrunes

From moon + runes. Apparently coined based from moonspeak, an anime reference (of which see there), ultimately associating East Asian languages with celestial levels of foreignness.

Can anyone here read moonrunes?

I'm still learning moonrunes.

This imported box of Pocky is covered in moonrunes; I can barely read it.

(Internet slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes humorous) An incomprehensible writing script, or the language associated with it, usually referring to Japanese, but may also refer to Chinese, Korean and other East Asian writing scripts.


Negrense

A native or inhabitant of the Filipino island of Negros.


Varuzhan

Վարուժան Վարուժան#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Վարուժան (Varužan).


Suku

A Yaka language spoken by approximately fifty thousand people in the south of Bandundu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (zone H.30 in Guthrie’s classification).


Hmar

A tribal people from Northeast India who belong to Chin-Kuki-Mizo /Zo people.


Greenlandic Eskimo Pidgin

The code used on Wiktionary for Greenlandic Eskimo Pidgin is crp-gep


Netherlandic

From Netherland(s) + -ic. Compare Netherlandish.


Alviri-Vidari

A Northwestern Iranian language spoken in Alvir and Vidar, two villages near Saveh, Markazi Province, Iran.


covenstead

From coven + stead; first attested in 1969.

He began being late for meetings and, as some members travelled quite a distance to the covenstead and had to leave promptly afterwards, Alex took him to task.

1969, June Johns, King of the witches: the world of Alex Sanders, page 108:

1986, Raymond Buckland, Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, link
It used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next.

1993, Janet Thompson, Of Witches: Celebrating the Goddess As a Solitary Pagan, page 29,
If that is the case, then the home of the high Priestess is likely to be referred to as the covenstead.

The covenstead is the meeting place of a coven.

1999, James R. Lewis, Witchcraft today: an encyclopedia of Wiccan and neopagan traditions, page 66:

(Wicca) A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location.


Cyrenian

en-adj

Cyrenian (comparative more Cyrenian, superlative most Cyrenian)

more Cyrenian (comparative)
most Cyrenian (superlative)

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaic, of or related to Cyrenaicism.

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaican, of or related to Cyrenaica.


Cyrenian

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaic, an adherent of Cyrenaicism.

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaican, a native or inhabitant of Cyrenaica.


Gaditanian

Gaditanian (comparative more Gaditanian, superlative most Gaditanian)

more Gaditanian (comparative)
most Gaditanian (superlative)

From Latin Gādītānus, from Gādēs (“Cadiz”), + -ian.

Of, from, or relating to Cádiz in Spain.


Arverni

/ɑːɹˈvɜːɹnaɪ/

(historical) A member of an ancient, powerful Gallic tribe living in what is now the Auvergne region of France, who opposed the Romans on several occasions.


Canary Islander

en-noun

Canary Islander (plural Canary Islanders)


Modoc

From Klamath-Modoc moatokni (“southerner”).

Any member of a Native American tribe formerly living in California and Oregon, and now in Oklahoma as well.


Modoc

The language of this tribe (also known as Klamath-Modoc).


Cyrenaic

en-adj

Cyrenaic (comparative more Cyrenaic, superlative most Cyrenaic)

more Cyrenaic (comparative)
most Cyrenaic (superlative)

From Latin Cyrenaicus, from Ancient Greek Κῡρηνᾰῐ̈κός (Kūrēnaïkós), from Κῡρηναῖος (Kūrēnaîos, “Cyrenian, n.”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”), from Κυρήνη (Kurḗnē, “Cyrene”) + -ιος (-ios, “-y: forming demonyms”), q.v. Equivalent to Cyrene + -ic or a backformation from Cyrenaica.

(chiefly historical) Of or related to Cyrenaicism, the philosophical school founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and codified by Aristippus the Younger.

(historical) Synonym of Cyrenian, of or related to Cyrene.

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaican, of or related to Cyrenaica, the area around Cyrene in northeastern Libya.


Cyrenaic

(chiefly historical) A member or adherent of Cyrenaicism, the philosophical school founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and codified by Aristippus the Younger.

(historical) Synonym of Cyrenian, a person of or from Cyrene.

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaican, a person of or from Cyrenaica, the area around Cyrene in northeastern Libya.


Pre-Greek

Calque of German Vorgriechische. By surface analysis, pre- + Greek.

a hypothetical language (or languages) conjectured to have been spoken in prehistoric Greece before the arrival of Proto-Greek speakers, and used to explain the large number of non-Indo-European words found in Ancient Greek.


necronym

From necro- + -onym; from Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós, “death”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).

Some cultures have a taboo against uttering necronyms.

[…] necronym taboo (i.e., a prohibition on saying the names of people who have passed away) […]

2007, Claire Bowern, Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide, Springer, →ISBN, page 227:

ln some cultures the dead are given a new proper name, known as a "necronym," to avoid breaking the taboo. Necronyms sound to me a great deal like the euphemisms we use, such as "passed on" or "passed away," to say that someone died ...

1998, Louise Harmon, Fragments on the Deathwatch, MA: Beacon Press:

Often a recently deceased person is referred to circumlocutory by a teknonym or necronym according to their relationship with some living [person].

1999, David McKnight, People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: Systems of Classification Among the Lardil of Mornington Island, Oxford University Press, USA:

Each list ends with a necronym: John for Timothy, […]

2003, The Genealogist, volumes 17-18, page 212:

A substitute name used to refer to a person who has died (instead of the name the person had in life).

[…] a Penan may be designated by three sorts of terms: a personal name, a teknonym ('father of so-and-so', 'mother of so-and-so') and, finally, what one feels like calling a necronym, which expresses the kinship relation of a deceased relative to the subject: 'father dead', 'niece dead', etc. The western Penan have no less that twenty-six distinct necronyms, corresponding to the degree of kinship, relative age of the deceased, [etc].

1966, Claude Lvi-strauss, The Savage Mind, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 191:

An individual takes a necronym, or death-name, when some of his primary relatives die, namely a parent, a sibling, ...

1978, Victor T. King, Essays on Borneo societies:

A name or name element which indicates that someone the person was closely related to is dead.


Ashby

From Old English æsċ (“ashtree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).


Beej

From how the letters b and j are pronounced together as a word.


Bobby Joe

A compound male given name originating as a coinage.


Billy Jean

A compound female given name originating as a coinage.


Parian

en-noun

Parian (countable and uncountable, plural Parians)

(countable) A native or inhabitant of Paros.


Atellan

From Latin Atellanus, from Atella (“an ancient town of the Osci, in Campania”).

A kind of farcical drama performed at Atella.


Cú Chulainn

From Irish cú (“hound”) + Culann. The latter name could be related to Ancient Greek κυλλός (kullós, “crooked, crippled”).

cog

(Irish mythology) The pre-eminent hero of Ulster in the Ulster Cycle, almost undefeatable due to his spear the Gae Bulg, but cursed to reach an early grave; son of Lugh and Deichtine.


Zev

A male given name from Hebrew found in the Jewish demographic


blanch holding

And be it enacted, That all Tenures of any Lands or Heretages in Scotland, that are now held or liable or be held of his Majesty by Ward Holding, whether simple or taxed Ward, are hereby enacted to be turned into Blanch Holding […]

1876, Hugh Cowan, The Land Rights of Scotland: Being a Collection of the Entail, Conveyancing, and Other Statutes Relating to Land:

(Scots law, historical) A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.


Muhammed

A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad


Ditidaht

The language spoken by the Ditidaht people: a member of the Southern Wakashan language group.


Wakashan

A family of languages spoken in Western Canada, composed of the Northern and Southern Wakashan language groups.


Klallam

From the North Straits Salish name for the Klallam people, [xʷsˈtɬæləm].

A member of a group of related Native American communities from the Pacific Northwest of North America.


No Fun City

Reportedly coined in 2000 by an organiser of Vancouver's annual Symphony of Fire fireworks exhibition (now known as the Celebration of Light), who was upset over a tobacco company being prevented from sponsoring the event. Strict liquor licensing laws have also been pointed to as the source of the nickname, as has an incident in which police advised people to avoid a New Year's celebration, fearing violence. Further popularized in 2010 via a feature documentary called No Fun City about the struggles faced by Vancouver music venues, directed by Melissa James and Kate Kroll.

Where did this wealth of visual expression come from, and how did it blossom in No Fun City, of all places?

2002, Elizabeth Nolan, "Vancouver's Underground Stars Light up the Night", The Nerve, Volume 3, Number 3, May/June 2002, page 4

Celebrates independent art and culture in “No Fun City” — Vancouver, BC.

2013, Heidi Waechtler, editor, The Canadian Writer's Market, 19th Edition: The Essential Guide for Freelance Writers, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 37:

The Winter Olympics brought people out on the street and showed that even in No Fun City, we could find ourselves having endless fun.

2015 February 27, Patrick Johnston, “Rugby notebook: ‘Fandamonium’ the word of the day at Canada Sevens announcement, Olympic qualifying and more”, in The Province:

(informal, usually derogatory) The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


Serer

A member of a West African ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.


Dickboy

Richard Bryant (the noted "DICKBOY") was of this gang, as were Ben. Kayford and Geo. Ward (alias DAGGER) and some others, all hanged at Gloucester, Bristol, Salisbury, and Ilchester.

1881, Henry Ellacombe, History of the parish of Bitton, in the county of Gloucester, Volume 1, page 212:

Also I give the use of my Negro Dickboy to my daughter Mary Womack during her life and after her death I give and bequeath the said Negro Dickboy to my son Francis Farley and his heirs forever.

1943, Jesse Farley, Paul Hardman, Twelve generations of Farleys, page 34:

And then there was Dickboy Cheney leading him around like a pig with a ring.

2008, Richard Grossinger, The Bardo of Waking Life, page 322:

(sometimes offensive) A diminutive of the male given name Richard.


Iqalummiuq

An inhabitant of the city of Iqaluit, Canada


Iqalungmiut

One or more inhabitants of Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay).


Iqalungmiut

en-adj

Iqalungmiut (comparative more Iqalungmiut, superlative most Iqalungmiut)

more Iqalungmiut (comparative)
most Iqalungmiut (superlative)

Of or relating to Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay).


Billyjean

(rare) A female given name originating as a coinage.


Senones

Via Latin from Ancient Greek Σήνωνες (Sḗnōnes), originally the capital of the Gaulish people of the same name.


Cormick

From Scottish Gaelic or from Irish Cormac, from Old Irish Cormac, Corbmac, from corb ("chariot") + mac ("son"). Many books also connect the name to an Irish word for "raven".


obtemper

en-verb

obtemper (third-person singular simple present obtempers, present participle obtempering, simple past and past participle obtempered)

obtempers (present singular third-person)
obtempering (participle present)
obtempered (participle past)
obtempered (past)

and after reading thereof, enquir'd at him, if he would obtemper the famin; to which he answer'd, That he could not comply with, or would he obtemper the said Sentence

1712, Charles Nice Davies, The Present State of the Parties in Great Britain:

(Scots law, transitive) To obey (a judgement or decree).


backbond

(Scots law) An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.


Tolomako

An Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu.


Yidiny

After the Yidindji tribe (orthographies vary).

An extinct or nearly extinct Aboriginal language from northern Queensland, Australia in the Pama-Nyungan family.


Lushootseed

Anglicized form of Lushootseed xʷəlšucid or dxʷləšúcid.

An endangered Salishan language spoken mainly in Washington state, US.


Manam

A language spoken mainly on the island of Manam.


Macushi

Their language, which has between 20000 and 30000 speakers, and is in the Cariban family.


Yael

Rendering of the modern Israeli Hebrew יעל.


decerniture

(Scots law) A decree or sentence of a court.


Ahwai

A Nigerian Plateau language or language group, which comprises the lects Nandu or Ndun, Ningon or Nyeng, and Tari or Shakara.


Akpes

A dialect cluster spoken in Nigeria, which is its own branch of the Volta–Niger languages.


Amarakaeri

An indigenous American language, which is in the Harákmbut or Harákmbet language family, spoken in Peru.


Aka-Bo

From Aka-Bo aka- (“a prefix used on words relating to the mouth”) + bo.

der

A Great Andamanese language, the last speaker of which died in 2010.


Alaba-K'abeena

A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia in the Great Rift Valley southwest of Lake Shala.


Pucikwar

The A-Pucikwar language spoken by these people.


Hiroshiman

A native or inhabitant of Hiroshima, Japan.


Abun

A language, sometimes considered an isolate and sometimes considered West Papuan, spoken in Papua and divided into the dialects Abun Tat (Karon Pantai), Abun Ji (Madik), and Abun Je.


Angami

A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Naga Hills in the northeastern part of India.


Abelam

The Ambulas language of Papua New Guinea.


A-Pucikwar

From A-Pucikwar a- (prefix used on words relating to the mouth) + Pucikwar.

The now-extinct language spoken by the Pucikwar people.


Woi

An Austronesian language spoken by around 1300 people in Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea)


East Frisian

The Frisian language spoken in East Frisia (northwest Germany), of which Saterland Frisian is the last remaining variety.

The Low German dialect spoken in East Frisia.


East Frisian

Pertaining to East Frisia, the East Frisians, the East Frisian language or the East Frisian Low German dialect.


Krio

Borrowed from Krio Krio, from Portuguese crioulo (“creole”). Doublet of Creole.

A creole language based on English/Jamaican Creole spoken by around 500,000 people mainly in Sierra Leone.


Mizo

A language spoken in India, especially Mizoram, and adjoining parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar.


assythment

en-noun

assythment (countable and uncountable, plural assythments)

/əˈsʌɪðmənt/

From assyth + -ment, from Old French aset, asez, originally meaning "enough". See assets.

It may be observed that assythment is not due to the next of kin of a person slain where the offender hath by the exertion of public justice suffered the punishment due to his crime; but whether it can be demanded from the king's donatary where the criminal hath fled from justice and forfeited his movable estate upon a sentence of fugitation, may be doubted.

1871, John Erskine, An Institute of the Law of Scotland, volume 2, page 1235:

I, Fergus and my Heirs and Assignies, against all deadly the foresaid Three Daughs, and the forenamed Land of Ardendraught, with their pertinents, liberties and assythments and other privileges as aforesaid.

1894 February 20, Scottish Notes and Queries, volume 7, page 140:

Although there is no precise statistical analysis of assythments, bonds of manrent were only very rarely used in such circumstances.

2003, Christine Peters, Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640, page 25:

(Scots law, historical) Compensation or reparation for a criminal offence.


asteroidian

But you remained conservative, A changeless asteroidian.

1932, California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries, page 706:

Whatever else can be said about the world inhabited by Lesabéndio and his fellow asteroidians, this much is certain: their proper names derive from the first sounds they emit, not from a procedure of designation akin to the establishment of technical terms, and the laws governing the waxing and waning of their bodies are unlike those under which the bodies on the surface of the earth fall.

2011, Peter Fenves, The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time, page 230:

What gags Flora is that Rod blew the Saturnienne to protect the asteroidians against North American culture , even though that cut him off from one wife, one concubine, and one son.

2014, E. Hoffmann Price, Operation Longlife, page 157:

(science fiction) One who is from or lives on an asteroid.


Gadang

An East Chadic language spoken by about 2500 people in Chad.


Babungo

The Bantu language of the Vengo people from the village of Babungo in the Cameroonian Grassfields.


Bafanji

The Nun language spoken in the Northwest Region of Cameroon by approximately 17,000 speakers.


Bafut

The Eastern Grassfields language spoken in Cameroon.


Babuza

A Formosan language of the Babuza and Taokas indigenous peoples of Taiwan, related to or perhaps descended from Favorlang.


ǃOǃKung

ǃOǃkung Bushman (Angola): […]

1934, The mammals of South West Africa: a biological account, volume 2, page 504

[…] transcribed by slashes or exclamation points, as in the ǃOǃkung language, spoken in Angola […]

2005-2010, The Origins and Development of the English Language, edition 6, volume 1 (ISBN-13: 978-1-4282-3145-0), page 53 http://books.google.com/books?id=znFmBZ2D8rEC&lpg=PA53&dq=%22O-kung%22%20language%20Angola%20OR%20Namibia&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=%22O-kung%22%20language%20Angola%20OR%20Namibia&f=false

[…] and other groups in Namibia, and with ǃOǃKung (ǃXũ) in Angola; […]

2007, Alan Barnard, Anthropology and the Bushman (ISBN-13 978-1-84520-428-0), page 46 http://books.google.com/books?id=e3MihaaJ314C&lpg=PA46&dq=%22O-kung%22%20language%20Angola%20OR%20Namibia&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=O%20Kung&f=false

The northern lect of the ǃKung dialect continuum, spoken in southern Angola and northern Namibia.


Lepcha

Lepcha language
Lepcha people
Lepcha script

Their language, a Himalayish language in the Sino-Tibetan family, spoken by about 30000-50000 people.


Ogoni

Their language division, which consists of Khana, Tẹẹ, Gokana, Eleme, and Baan.


Bagirmi

The language of the Baguirmi people of Chad, spoken mainly in the Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture.

A family of languages which includes the Bagirmi language as well as Naba, Kenga, Fer, Beraku, Disa, and Goulai.


Vengo

Their language, also known as Babungo, in the Benue-Congo family, with 14000-27000 speakers.


Nessa

A female given name, nickname of Vanessa.


Radney

(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.


Meccawee

(obsolete) Meccan (native or inhabitant of Mecca)


Sciot

(dated) A native or inhabitant of Scio; a Chiot


Pshavian

A dialect of the Georgian language spoken in Pshavi.


ǁXegwi

They also occur in ǁxegwi but not in other "Bush" languages.

1980, Jannie Winston Snyman, Bushman and Hottentot linguistic studies, page 75:

[…] variety known as ǁXegwi was spoken. In the 1950s there were fewer than 36 speakers left. They were described as still knowing their language 'fairly well' and being bilingual in 'Swazi-Zulu' and Afrikaans (Potgieter 1955), […]

1995, Rajend Mesthrie, Language and social history: studies in South African sociolinguistics, page 13:

TABLE 11.2 Loss of ancestral ! clicks in ǁXegwi.

2009, Rudolf P. Botha, Chris Knight, The Cradle of Language, page 216:

An extinct language formerly spoken in South Africa near the Swazi border.


Gcwi

[…] about 12000 speakers; Gcwi and Gxana (Botswana), with about 6000 speakers; the Zhu language (Namibia and Botswana), with about 11000 speakers; […]

1997, Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara (John Middleton), volume 2


Sanctus

Borrowed from Latin sānctus (“holy”), the opening word of the prayer in that language. The prayer is taken from Isaiah 6:3 and Matthew 21:9. Doublet of saint.

A prayer in Christian liturgy, beginning “Holy, holy, holy …” and typically said or sung as a hymn shortly before the anaphora.


Trisagion

Trisagion (plural Trisagia or Trisagions)

From Medieval Latin trisagion, from Byzantine Greek τρισάγιον (triságion), from τρίς (trís, “thrice”) + ἅγιον (hágion, “holy”).

With these sure graces, while busy tongues are crying out for a drop of cold water, mutes may be in happiness, and sing the Trisagion in heaven.

1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 24:

Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity

(Christianity) A liturgical prayer that runs “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us” in English, typically sung before certain scriptural readings at Eucharistic liturgies in Eastern Christianity, and during the Good Friday Mass in the Roman Rite.


Bon Gula

[…] Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Adamawa-Ubangi, Adamawa, Mbum-Day, Bua. There is reported to be no intelligibility between Bon Gula and Zan Gula. Speakers may use Arabic as second language. Together with Bon Gula called 'Gula Guera'.

1992, Ethnologue: languages of the world (Barbara F. Grimes, Richard Saunders Pittman, Joseph Evans Grimes),page 229

1995: Banana Marba (Mesa) (65%), Bua (80%), Bon Gula (95%), Gkelendeng […] Jurnam (90%).

2001, World Christian Encyclopedia: The world by segments : religions, peoples, languages, cities, topics (David B. Barrett, George Thomas Kurian, Todd M. Johnson), page 182

Not intelligible with Bon Gula or Zan Gula.

2003, International encyclopedia of linguistics (William Frawley), volume 1, page 30

An Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Chad.


Zan Gula

The highly endangered languages include Barein, Boor (Bowara, Damraw). Fania (Mara, Kobe, Fongoro, Koke), Kindeje (Yaali), Kujange, Laal, Mawa (Mahoura), Miltu, Saba, Sokoro, Tamki, Tunia (tounia, Tunya) and Zan Gula (Moriil).

2005, Language decline and death in Africa: causes, consequences, and challenges (Herman Batibo), pages 72-73


Kulaal

[…] who has seen Pairault's material, says of one of these languages, Kulaal, that it 'is a class language which . . . looks like something out of Chari-Hile by Adamawa-Eastern or the other way round'.

1971, Current Trends in Linguistics: Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa (Thomas Albert Sebeok), page 221

Suffixes have probably been 'worn down' and replaced, and in Kulaal, a recent system of concord markers has been created.

1989, The Niger-Congo languages: a classification and description of Africa's largest language family (John Bendor-Samuel, Rhonda L. Hartell), page 204

[…] phonology and morphology, and deals briefly with the classification of this group (which includes thirteen sub-dialects, among which we find Lua and Kulaal).

1995, in Chad (E. George H. Joffé, Valérie Day-Viaud), page 62


Karo Batak

Thus, when Brandstetter compares Karo Batak kilkil "to gnaw", Bisayan baŋkil "to bite" he is justified in regarding this as evidence — albeit very slender evidence — for an "Original Indonesian" root kil.

1988, Austronesian Root Theory: An Essay on the Limits of Morphology (R. A. Blust), page 12

Karo Batak (spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia)
[…]
Table 13: Karo Batak verb forms (Norwood)

2002, The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems (Fay Wouk, Malcolm Ross), page 2 and page 467

[…] interrogative pronoun, as in the example in (6) from Karo Batak (Austronesian; Sumatra, Indonesia).

2005, Martin Haspelmath, The World Atlas Of Language Structures, page 379:

An Austronesian language that is spoken by the Karo people of Indonesia; ISO code btx.


Gola

Most De speak Gola fluently and many also speak Vai.

1971, Rural Africana (Michigan State University, Political Science Department / African Studies Center), issues 13-18, page 13

Nevertheless, some still remember how to speak Gola, occasionally uphold their Gola origins, and seem to reflect them in the orientation of certain social values.

1994, Melissa Leach, Rainforest relations: gender and resource use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone, page 49:

The Gola live on the border with Liberia in the provinces of Kenema and Pujehun. They number about 9000, speak Gola and practice Islam […]

2005, The world guide: a view from the south, volume 2007 (Instituto del Tercer Mundo), page 495


Cyndi

A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia.


Northern Irelander

Northern Irelander (plural Northern Irelanders)

Secondly, he had noted from his days as a student in England that the British “look upon those from Northern Ireland as Irish,” and the entire island as an entity connected by what he called “Irish things,” such as Catholic banning of suggestive movies. He told me that a Northern Irelander in Great Britain is not regarded as a citizen of the United Kingdom, but simply someone from Ireland.

2003, Carol Daugherty Rasnic, “Epilogue”, in Northern Ireland: Can Sean and John Live in Peace? : An American Legal Perspective, →ISBN, page 300:


Smyrniot

After remaining a few days at Smyrna, we set out to pay a visit to the ruins of Ephesus, which are situated on the shore of the Gulf of Skalanova, about thirty-five miles south of Smyrna. Our equipage consisted of a Greek servant, Spiridon, or, as he was usually called, Spiro; Achmet, a janissary; and an old Smyrniot, proprietor of the horses which we rode.

1829, James Emerson, “Letter IV. Ephesus.”, in Letters from the Ægean, New York, N.Y.: Printed by J. & J. Harper, 82 Cliff St.; sold by Collins and Hannay, [et al.], →OCLC, page 71:

(historical) A native or inhabitant of Smyrna (modern-day Izmir, Turkey).


Alumu

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Alumu.

A Plateau language spoken in Nassarawa State, Nigeria.


Moesogothic

From Moeso- + Gothic or Moesogoth + -ic, from Moesia.


Georgios

Transliteration of Greek Γεώργιος (Geórgios), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Cognate with English George.

Γεώργιος Γεώργιος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Γεώργιος (Geórgios).


Theodoros

Transliteration of Greek Θεόδωρος (Theódoros), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Cognate with English Theodore.

Θεόδωρος Θεόδωρος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Θεόδωρος (Theódoros).


Angele

A female given name from French, anglicized by Angèle


Stephani

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from German Stephani, a Latinized patronymic surname from the personal name Stephanus.
* Variant spelling of Italian Stefani.

Stephani Victor, b. 1969


Wacoan

en-adj

Wacoan (comparative more Wacoan, superlative most Wacoan)

more Wacoan (comparative)
most Wacoan (superlative)


Angelos

From Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos). Doublet of Angel.


Petros

Transliteration of Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. The Armenian name is from Armenian Պետրոս (Petros), from the same Greek name. Cognate with English Peter.

Πέτρος Πέτρος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Πέτρος (Pétros).

Պետրոս Պետրոս#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Պետրոս (Petros).


Neogothic

Neogothic (comparative more Neogothic, superlative most Neogothic)

more Neogothic (comparative)
most Neogothic (superlative)

The travelling engineer Frencesco Senweignoter designed the church at Falzes (1851) and also the front of the mausoleaum for Archduke Reiner in the principal church in Bolzano. The latter is a pleasing and correct example of the Neogothic style.

1979, Sandro Gattei, Sandro Pirovano, Robert Mainardi, Trentino Alto Adige, page 464:

The earlier periods, the original and ideas-phases of German Neogothic, have been well written up in English; now Lewis's work fills an important gap in English-language works on the later period; indeed, so far, there is no comparable work in German either.

1992, Newsletter - Issues 47-65, page 90:

The Neogothic Revival style of the early 1900s sought to tame the excesses of the flamboyant High Victorian Gothic by turning to English Gothic architecture for inspiration.

1993, East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, City of Berlin intensive architectural/historical survey: final report:

His interest in architecture was always strongly linked to his sense of responsibility for the care and preservation of the built environment. In 1973 he published an article on Early Neogothic in Finland.

1995, Icon to Cartoon: A Tribute to Sixten Ringbom, page 22:

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, he made a series of designs in the Neogothic idiom of Martorell.

2000, Juan Bassegoda Nonell, Antonio Gaudi: Master Architect:

(architecture, literature) Alternative form of neogothic


Guernseyman

Someone from Guernsey; a Guernsey native or inhabitant.


Indo-Portuguese

Any of various Portuguese-based creoles spoken in India and Sri Lanka.


Mongo

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

A Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Isan

From Thai อีสาน (ii-sǎan) (same in Isan), claimed to be from Sanskrit ईशान (īśāna, “Shiva of the northeast”).

der

The language of the Isan people (between Lao and Thai, and sometimes considered a dialect of Lao, although it is written in Thai script).


Malvinian

(rare) Someone from the Malvinas (the Falkland Islands).


Kelper

(slang, dated) Alternative form of kelper; a Falkland Islander, native to the Falkland Islands.


Bats

A Northeast Caucasian language of the Nakh family, spoken in Georgia.


Lolly

Louise Bergeret (Lolly) was a year older than Enid;[…].

1982, Dorothea Straus, Under the Canopy, page 50:

He could see it all, with that certificate before him reading “Alice Louise Cameron” — Lolly.

1991, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Keeper of the Bees, page 481:

“Lolly, huh? Short for Louise no doubt.”

2010, Harry Hughes, Horseshoes, unnumbered page:

A diminutive of the female given names Laura or Louise.


Richy

A diminutive of the male given name Richard. Alternative form of Richie


Sassarese

A Romance lect, transitional between Corsican and Sardinian, spoken in the province of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy.


Otomanguean

A large language family comprising several families of Native American languages.


Liparian

en-adj

Liparian (comparative more Liparian, superlative most Liparian)

more Liparian (comparative)
most Liparian (superlative)

Of or relating to Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the north coast of Sicily, Italy.


Kaingang

An Indigenous Brazilian language of the Gê family.


Eastie

(UK, informal, television) EastEnders, a long-running British soap opera set in the East End of London.


Nola

From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In the US, also under the influence of the male name Nolan (which see).

"What kind of name is Nola?"
"My grandmother's," she said and sighed. "The kind of name no one ever just picks out."
"Excuse me?"
"You get named a name like Nola," she said. "Because of someone else. That someone else was my grandmother."

2011, Bebe Wilde, The Weaker Sex, page 33


Dadibi

A language of Papua New Guinea, of the Trans-New Guinea family.


Hephthalite

From the mid-fifth to the mid-sixth century Central Asia was ruled by the Hephthalite tribes. There are many gaps in our knowledge of the origin of the Hephthalites and the formation of their state, the first difficulty being that they are given different names in the various sources.

1999, B. A. Litvinsky, “6: The Hephthalite Empire”, in B. A. Litvinsky, Zhang Guang-Da, R. Shabani Samghabardi, editors, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume III: The crossroads of civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, page 135:

F. Altheim assumes a Turkic origin for the Hephthalites. In his own studies he affirms, that the Hephthalites were Turkic-speaking Altaic tribes. The ethnonym "Hephtal" is drawn from the Turkic root: yap, meaning to do, to make, plus a^([sic]) verbal-nominal suffixes t and l. The reconstructed word is yap-t-il, which means "creator, maker" ("Schaffender, Tatiger"). The language of the Hephthalites was Turkic and the presence of the Iranian words is explained by elements that penetrated the Hephthalites language from the subordinated Iranian-speaking population.

2007, Adesh Katariya, Ancient History of Central Asia: Yuezhi origin Peoples, Adesh Katariya, page 158:

2009, Barbara A. West, "Hephthalites", article in Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania, Infobase Publishing (Facts on File), page 276,
The Hephthalites probably began their history as a nomadic people, moving across the Asian steppes when political, military, or social situations favored their movement.

(historical) Any of a people who comprised a nomadic confederation in Central Asia during the 5th–6th centuries CE.

հեփթաղ

any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th-6th centuries


Lavern

(chiefly US) A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


La Vergne

From the French surname Lavergne. Variant of Laverne.

(chiefly US) A female given name transferred from the surname.


apprizer

The apprizer, therefore (as the holder of a mortgage was then called), entered upon possession, and, in the language of Hotspur, “came me cranking in”

1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

(Scots law) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.


obreption

From Latin obreptio, from obrepo, obreptum (“to creep up to”), from ob (see prefix ob-) + repo (“to creep”).

In Mr John Maitland's action against Cardross, (vide 17th instant,) the Lords repelled Cardross's allegeances founded upon the impetrating of the gift of eschat from his Majesty by obreption expresso mendacio, or subreption celata veritate; because it appeared that there was a competition made by Cardross before the gift was past in Exchequer, and this same objection was made against it, that it was impetrated viis et modis;

1826, Mungo Ponton Brown, Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session, page 390:

(Scots law, obsolete) Act of obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise.


Kipling

en-proper noun

Kipling (countable and uncountable, plural Kiplings)


Alora

From Botswana, it means "my dream" in the Bantu languages.

A female given name from the Bantu languages of African origin.


La Toya

Possibly a combination of the prefix La- + Toya, a Spanish pet form of Victoria.

A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.


Rhaeto-Romance

From Latin Rhaetus + -o- + Romance, after German Rhätoromanisch.

(linguistics) A group of related Romance languages spoken in north and north-eastern Italy and southeastern Switzerland, or any of these languages individually.


Griqua

Any of a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial black people, originally populating the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living as seminomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.

Griekwa

member of a multiracial people of South Africa


Sidonian

(historical) A native or inhabitant of Sidon.


Constant

(rare) A male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Constance


Firmin

From Latin Firminus, name of early Christian saints, derivative of firmus (“firm”).


American Spanish

Any of the varieties of Spanish used in the United States.


Xiaomin

Borrowed from Mandarin 晓敏 (Xiǎomǐn), probably originally 小敏 (Xiǎomǐn), diminutive of 敏 (Mǐn).


stave church

A wooden church with a medieval post and lintel construction.


Ngbandi

The language of these people, a dialect continuum of the Ubangian family.


Semi-Saxon

(obsolete) Late Old English and early Middle English, perceived as a language intermediate between Anglo-Saxon and English and belonging to the period from 1100 to 1200/1230/1250 (depending on author).


Semi-Saxon

(obsolete) Relating to Late Old English and early Middle English, the form of the English language belonging to the period from 1100 to 1200/1230/1250 (depending on author).


subreption

en-noun

subreption (countable and uncountable, plural subreptions)

/sʌbˈɹɛpʃən/

From Latin subreptio, from subripere, subreptum (“to snatch or take away secretly”). Compare French subreption. See surreptitious, surreptition.

(Scots law) The act of obtaining a gift or favor by concealing the truth.


Nyankole

The Bantu lect spoken by more than two million members of the Nkore (Banyankore) and Hema (Hima) peoples of southwestern Uganda, closely related to the Kiga language and sometimes considered with Kiga to be a dialect of Nkore-Kiga, or (with Kiga, Nyoro and Tooro) a dialect of Kitara.


Nkore

The lect spoken by these people, Nyankole.


Libyan Arabic

A group of Arabic dialects spoken primarily in Libya.


Black English

Perhaps Black English will yield a new neutral term for wokeness.

2021 November 16, John McWhorter, “‘Woke’ Went the Way of ‘P.C.’ and ‘Liberal’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

African-American English
African-American English#English

Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.

(US) Synonym of African-American English (“AAE”), sometimes specifically African-American Vernacular English (“AAVE”).


Justin

Name of early saints, Latin Iustīnus, from Iustus + -īnus, from iustus (“just”).

What is there, I wonder, about the name Justin that gives its bearer the quality of leadership? Justin Morrill was a leader of men. Justin Morgan was a leader of horses.

1892, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, Outlook Publishing Co., published 1925, page 43:

'It says here his name was Justin Summers. Now, if that ain't the whitest white-guy name of all time, then I don't know what. It's just a damn shame.'

1996, Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer, →ISBN, page 102:

A male given name from Latin. Popular in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.


Hyblaean

en-adj

Hyblaean (comparative more Hyblaean, superlative most Hyblaean)

more Hyblaean (comparative)
most Hyblaean (superlative)

Borrowed from French Hybléen, via Latin hyblaeus, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὑβλαῖος (hublaîos, “Hyblaean”).

der

Of or pertaining to the Hyblaean Mountains.


Hyblaean

en-noun

Hyblaean (countable and uncountable, plural Hyblaeans)

(countable) An inhabitant of the Hyblaean area, South-eastern Sicily, or a person from that ancestry.

(uncountable, cooking) A style of cuisine or individual dishes of or associated with the same area or Hyblaean people.


Hyblaean

The dialects of Sicily spoken in the Hyblaean Mountains.


Zarma

A Songhay language spoken primarily in Niger.


Faroish

From Faroe + -ish, after Icelandic færeyskur.

[...] manned by the queerest old carles, who by way of salute as the boat touched our side, shuffled off their Faroish caps in a very undignified manner.

1920, John William Mackail, The life of William Morris:

Of or pertaining to the Faroe Islands, Faroish people or the Faroish language; Faroese.

ֆարերյան

pertaing to the Faroish language, people or Faroe Islands


Faroish

A person from the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islander.


Faroish

The same story is found in Icelandic, Norse, Faroish, and Estnish ballads, as well as in the Swedish and Danish, and a nearly related one in many other ballads or tales — German, Polish, Lithuanian, [...]

1893, The ballad minstrelsy of Scotland:

The language of the Faroe Islands, closely related to Icelandic, and more distantly to Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.


Catawban

A native or inhabitant of Catawba County.


Marwari

A macrolanguage of India and Eastern Pakistan, descended from Rajasthani.


Elfdalian

From Elfdalia + -an, from Älvdalen in Sweden, literally "river valley," from Swedish älv (“river”) + dal (“valley”).

A linguistic variety of the Scandinavian language continuum spoken in the old parish of Övdaln in Sweden.


Pleiadean

(science fiction, ufology) An alien being from the Pleiades.


Blairist

en-adj

Blairist (comparative more Blairist, superlative most Blairist)

more Blairist (comparative)
most Blairist (superlative)

The campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq left him looking like the leader of a Blairist 'front' party as he backed the government on these and other issues.

2006, David Childs, Britain Since 1945: A Political History, page 298:

The Blairist emphasis on inclusiveness and recruitment by post code will likewise set off a new downward spiral in education[…]

2000, The Salisbury Review: Volumes 19-20:

(UK politics) Favouring, or according to, the policies of Tony Blair, British prime minister 1997-2007.


Urum

Derived from the endonym Rûm (Rome), the term for the Byzantine Empire in the Muslim world. See Arabic رُوم (Rūm), Persian روم (Rūm), Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos), etc.

A Turkic language spoken in Ukraine and by a diaspora around the world, including in Georgia.


Janaki

Borrowed from Sanskrit जानकी (jānakī), from Sanskrit जनक (janaka).


Grigoris

Transliteration of Greek Γρηγόρης (Grigóris), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Gregory.

Γρηγόρης Γρηγόρης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Γρηγόρης (Grigóris).


Vasilikas

Transliteration of Greek Βασιλικάσ (Vasilikás), a female given name used in (modern) Greece.

Βασιλικάσ Βασιλικάσ#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Βασιλικάσ (Vasilikás).


Kyriakos

Transliteration of Greek Κυριάκος (Kyriákos), a male given name used in (modern) Greece meaning "lord of the lords," from κύριος (kýrios, “lord”).

Κυριάκος Κυριάκος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Κυριάκος (Kyriákos).


Vasilis

Transliteration of Greek Βασίλης (Vasílis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.

Βασίλης Βασίλης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Βασίλης (Vasílis).


Michalis

Transliteration of Greek Μιχάλης (Michális), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Cognate with English Michael.

Μιχάλης Μιχάλης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Μιχάλης (Michális).


Styliani

Transliteration of Greek Στυλιανή (Stylianí), a female given name used in (modern) Greece.

Στυλιανή Στυλιανή#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Στυλιανή (Stylianí).


Theofanis

Transliteration of Greek Θεοφάνης (Theofánis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.

Θεοφάνης Θεοφάνης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Θεοφάνης (Theofánis).


Dimitris

Transliteration of Greek Δημήτρης (Dimítris), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Demetrius.

Δημήτρης Δημήτρης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Δημήτρης (Dimítris).


Konstantina

Transliteration of Greek Κωνσταντίνα (Konstantína), a female given name used in Greece.

Κωνσταντίνα Κωνσταντίνα#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Κωνσταντίνα (Konstantína).


Kausalya

Borrowed from Sanskrit कौसल्या (kausalyā).

bor+

A female given name from Sanskrit, of chiefly Indian usage.


Giannis

Transliteration of Greek Γιάννης (Giánnis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of John.

Γιάννης Γιάννης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Γιάννης (Giánnis).


Kostas

Transliteration of Greek Κώστας (Kóstas), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.

Κώστας Κώστας#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Κώστας (Kóstas).


Spyridon

Romanization of Greek Σπυρίδων (Spyrídon, a male given name).


Sokratis

Transliteration of Greek Σωκράτης (Sokrátis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Socrates.

Σωκράτης Σωκράτης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Σωκράτης (Sokrátis).


Savva

Transliteration of Greek Σάββα (Sávva), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.

Σάββα Σάββα#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Σάββα (Sávva).


Panagiotis

Transliteration of Greek Παναγιώτης (Panagiótis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.

Παναγιώτης Παναγιώτης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Παναγιώτης (Panagiótis).


Eirini

Transliteration of Greek Ειρήνη (Eiríni), a female given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Irene.

Ειρήνη Ειρήνη#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Ειρήνη (Eiríni).


Kalliopi

Transliteration of Greek Καλλιόπη (Kalliópi), a female given name used in (modern) Greece.

Καλλιόπη Καλλιόπη#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Καλλιόπη (Kalliópi).


Xavi

A diminutive of the male given name Xavier


Ioannis

Transliteration of Greek Ιωάννης (Ioánnis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Giannis.

Ιωάννης Ιωάννης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Ιωάννης (Ioánnis).


Ekaterini

Transliteration of Greek Αικατερίνη (Aikateríni), a female given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Catherine.

Αικατερίνη Αικατερίνη#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Αικατερίνη (Aikateríni).


Athanasios

Transliteration of Greek Αθανάσιος (Athanásios), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. From α- (a-, “absence of”) + θάνατος m (thánatos, “death”). Doublet of Athanasius.

Αθανάσιος Αθανάσιος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Αθανάσιος (Athanásios).


Dimitra

Transliteration of Greek Δήμητρα (Dímitra), a female given name used in modern Greece.

Δήμητρα Δήμητρα#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Δήμητρα (Dímitra).


Vasilios

From a transliteration of Modern Greek Βασίλειος (Vasíleios), a male given name used in (modern) Greece, which in turn derives from Ancient Greek Βασίλειος (Basíleios), from βασίλειος (basíleios, “of the king, kingly, royal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”). Doublet of Basil. See Basil for more details.

Βασίλειος Βασίλειος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Βασίλειος (Vasíleios), equivalent to Basil.


Eleni

Transliteration of Greek Ελένη (Eléni), a female given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Helen, Ellen, Helena, and Elena.

doublet

Ελένη Ελένη#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Ελένη (Eléni).


Sotiris

Transliteration of Greek Σωτήρης (Sotíris), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.

Σωτήρης Σωτήρης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Σωτήρης (Sotíris).


Evanthia

From Greek Ευανθία (Evanthía) and Latin Evanthia, from Ancient Greek Εὐανθία (Euanthía, from εὐ- (eu-, “good-, well-”) + άνθος (ánthos, “blossom”) + -ία (-ía, “-ia: forming feminine abstract nouns”)). Cognate with Euanthe.


Konstadinos

Transliteration of Greek Κωνσταντίνος (Konstantínos), a male given name used in Greece. Doublet of Constantine.

Κωνσταντίνος

Κωνσταντίνος Κωνσταντίνος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Κωνσταντίνος (Konstantínos).


Western Highland Purepecha

Western Highland(s), denoting where it is spoken + Purepecha, a word from Purepecha.

The western lect of Purepecha, a language isolate spoken in Mexico.


Lakshmana

Borrowed from Sanskrit लक्ष्मण (lakṣmaṇa).

A male given name from Sanskrit used mostly in India.


Avraam

Transliteration of Greek Αβραάμ (Avraám), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Abraham.

Αβραάμ Αβραάμ#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Αβραάμ (Avraám).


Kalomoira

Transliteration of Greek Καλομοίρα (Kalomoíra), a female given name used in modern Greece.

Καλομοίρα Καλομοίρα#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Καλομοίρα (Kalomoíra).


Gadjang

Synonym of Worimi (“Australian Aboriginal language”)


Nutmegger

From nutmeg + -er. Connecticut is sometimes known as the Nutmeg State.

CONNECTICUT NIGHT. Thursday night was assigned to the Nutmeggers, but the exercises could not begin until nearly nine o'clock, because the Luray and Antietam excursions did not arrive in camp on time.

1886, Francis Henry Buffum, Sheridan's veterans: No. II, page 32:

Nutmegger? Baystater? College slider? A mid-week ticket at Otis Ridge, Mass., will cost you $10 on Tuesdays (for Connecticut residents) and Thursdays (for Massachusetts residents).

1996 September, Dick Needham, “Side Tracks”, in Ski, page 19E:

A unifying characteristic of the Connecticut Yankee, however, is a propensity for inventiveness. Nutmeggers are historically known for both their intellectual abilities and their desire to have a little fun.

2008, Fodor's New England, 28th edition, Random House Digital, [page http://books.google.com/books?id=jtT-EjyG-eYC&pg=PA274&dq=nutmegger 274]

Slowly, since the mid-1950s when I became a Nutmegger, Connecticut has evolved into a food lover's paradise.

2010, Patricia Brooks, Food Lovers' Guide to Connecticut: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants, and Events, [page http://books.google.com/books?id=0Z3C80ImmFMC&pg=PR9&dq=nutmegger ix]


Arundhati

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Hari

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Satyavati

Borrowed from Sanskrit सत्यवती (satyavatī, “a truthful woman”).

A female given name from Sanskrit used mostly in India.


Subhadra

A female given name from Sanskrit mostly used in India.


Southern Sesotho

The Sesotho language, when distinguished from Northern Sesotho.


Aequian

The Italic language spoken by the Aequi.


Abor-Miri

/ˌɑˌbɔɹˈmɪ.ɹi/


Xiongnu

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 匈奴 (Xiōngnú). Possibly a doublet of Hun; their relationship to the Huns is disputed.

(historical) An ancient nomadic-based people that formed a state or confederation north of the agriculture-based empire of the Han dynasty.


Diedre

A female given name from Irish, variant of Deirdre.


Proto-Malayic

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Malayic languages.


Lombardish

From Middle English Lombardish, from Old English *Longbeardisc (“Lombardish”), equivalent to Lombard + -ish.

inh

And also another scripture that men call the Lombardish law, deviseth thereof in divers cases; the which hereafter shall be declared by me unto thee.

1807, George Burnett, Specimens of English prose-writers:

Of or pertaining to the Lombards, a Germanic people who settled in Italy in the sixth century C.E., their language, customs, or culture.

[...] Jazz became many things—frenetic, destructive, hysterical, decadent, venal, alcoholic, saccharine, Lombardish, vapid—it has enriched stuffed bellies; it has corrupted the innocent; [...]

2010, John Szwed, Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World:


Lombardish

The language of the Lombards, an extinct Germanic language known from fragmentary evidence; Lombardic.


Proto-Baltic

The reconstructed ancestor of the Baltic languages, descended from Proto-Balto-Slavic.


Party of No

Coined in United States political commentary since 2008.

(neologism, derogatory, US politics) The Republican Party of the United States.


Tungus

From Russian тунгус (tungus), supposedly deriving from donki, a self-designation of certain Siberian groups, or alternatively from a Yakut name for the Evenki. Or, of East Turkic origin, from tunguz (“wild boar, pig”), from Old Turkic [script needed] (tonguz), from Proto-Turkic *toŋuz. More at Tungusic.
A controversial theory further connects the word with Chinese 東胡／东胡 (Dōnghú, “Donghu”, literally “Eastern barbarians”), an ancient people of North China.

der

(dated, possibly obsolete) The Evenki language.


nonentry

en-noun

nonentry (countable and uncountable, plural nonentries)

(Scots law, historical) The casualty or advantage which formerly fell to the superior when the heir of a deceased vassal failed to renew the investiture, the superior being then entitled to the rent of the feu.


Zeme

A Sino-Tibetan language spoken in northeastern India.


Pipil

The Uto-Aztecan language, descended from Nahuatl, spoken by an indigenous people of El Salvador.

nawat

the Uto-Aztecan language, descended from Nahuatl, spoken by an indigenous people of El Salvador


Hmongic

An internally diverse language family spoken in southwest China including, among others, the languages Hmong, Bunu, Hmu, and Qo Xiong.


Rennellese

A Polynesian language spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Province of the Solomon Islands.


Armoric

Inherited from Middle English Armorik, from Latin Armoricus directly or from Middle French Armorique.

The language spoken by the Gauls of Armorica, the ancestor of Breton.


Tersanctus

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin tersānctus, from ter (“thrice”) + sānctus (“holy”).

bor+

The Trisagion (beginning “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal …”).


Bullom So

A moribund Niger-Congo language spoken near the border between Guinea and Sierra Leone.


Mithraeum

en-noun

Mithraeum (plural Mithraea or Mithraeums)

A grotto where the god Mithra was worshipped.


ghost rocket

A poem in Copenhagen’s Berlingske Tidende, July 31, 1946, last page, made reference to a recent sensational ghost rocket sighting over Byen, expressing relief that the “rocket” was actually a meteor:

2001, Robert E. Bartholomew, Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns, and Head-hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion, McFarland, page 273:

Many ghost rocket sightings came from Sweden, which is near the Soviet Union. U.S. and British officials convinced the Swedes to study reports of the ghost rockets. The Swedes found pieces of metal that they though came from crashed ghost rockets.

2011, Michael Burgan, Andrew Nichols, Searching for Aliens, UFOs, and Men in Black, Capstone Press, page 11:

The Swedish experts claimed that some 20 percent of the ghost rocket reports appeared to be neither aircraft nor natural phenomena.

2012, Ronald Story, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, Constable & Robinson Ltd, page 243:

unidentified flying objects
unidentified flying objects

(ufology) Any of the rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.

spökraket

rocket shaped UFOs sighted in 1946 in Sweden


black triangle

Somewhere behind that blinking yellow light that black triangle was hovering, (or moving only a few miles per hour), in our direction, straight at us.

2005, Bill Foster, Peggy Foster, Nadine Wheeler, The Black Triangle Abduction, The Invisible College Press, page 22

Note: The black triangle is a commonly seen UFO.

2007, Craig R. Lang, The Cosmic Bridge, Close Encounters and Human Destiny, lulu.com, page 4:

On Thursday, July 15, 2004, I flew to Denver, Colorado, where I was scheduled to speak at the annual symposium of the Mutual UFO Network on the subject of a particular type of UFO that has become known as the “Black Triangle,” and one that has been seen regularly in the skies of practically every corner of the planet for approximately the last two decades.

2009, Nick Redfern, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter, ReadHowYouWant.com, page 105:

Just three years after the Belgian black triangle incident, a similar craft appeared over RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury.

2011, William J. Birnes, The Everything UFO Book: An Investigation of Sightings, Cover-ups, and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, Adams Media, page 229:

(ufology) One of a class of triangle-shaped unidentified flying objects, usually with a light in each corner.


selfname

"Oh, Elements," she finally managed to say, sitting back against the seat cushion of the pilot's chair, "is that truly your selfname?" "James, actually."

But first of all came Lystra with her selfname.

2000, Joan Slonczewski, A Door Into Ocean:

A proper name; a name for one's own self, as opposed to one's family; one's real name. (proper name)


Mulao

A Tai-Kadai language spoken by the Mulao people.


Haunebu

This technology led to the amazing German flying saucers of the Haunebu and Vril classes built under SS auspices.

2003, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, NYU Press, page 295:

[…] and what crashed at Roswell was most likely a Haunebu.

2007, James Sheridan, The Pandora Prescription, Sterling & Ross Publishers, page 17:

However, some weeks after Ger-many surrendered, both Haunebu and Vril craft were spotted in the skies over occupied Germany.

2010, George Romero, The Rescue, Lotus Vision Publishing Company, page 165

(ufology, plural "Haunebus") Any of a class of flying saucers supposedly built by the Nazis.


Vril

Coined by British statesman and author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race, later titled Vril, apparently as a clipping of virile.

coined

Coordinate term: Haunebu

Operation Highjump has turned out to be a hot topic for UFO conspiracy theorists over recent years, who claim it was a secret US military campaign to defeat and destroy supposed secret Nazi facilities in Antarctica and seize the German Vril flying discs, and the Thule mercury propelled spacecraft.

2012, Jack Follett, Special Report 2011: Hitler's Secret UFO Weapons, BoD – Books on Demand, page 38:

(ufology, attributive) A kind of flying saucer supposedly built by the Nazis.


Transalpine

Someone from a country the other side of the Alps, seen from the point of view of Italy; a non-Italian.


Jezza

A diminutive of the male given name Jeremy.


Cindi

A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia.


Precious

She and Mma Ramotswe were fortunate, with their reasonably straightforward names of Grace and Precious respectively; she had contemporaries who were not so fortunate and had been saddled by their parents with names that were frankly ridiculous.

2009, Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Abacus, published 2010, →ISBN, page 6:


Rukmini

Borrowed from Sanskrit रुक्मिणी (rukmiṇī).

A female given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.


Yashoda

Transliteration of Sanskrit यशोदा (yaśodā). The given name is a transliteration of Hindi यशोदा (yaśodā), etc.


Cahuilla

Probably from Cahuilla kawi'a (“master”).


Yaghnobi

From Tajik яғнобиҳо (yaġnobiho), from Yagnobi yaγnōbī́t, яғнобӣ (yaġnobi).

An Eastern Iranian language spoken in Tajikistan by the Yaghnobi people.


Seleucus

From Latin Seleucus, from Ancient Greek Σέλευκος (Séleukos).

A male given name from Greek, particularly Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Empire.


Talysh

From Talysh Tolışon, толыши, تالشان, possibly ultimately related to the name of the Cadusii, a Median tribe.

The Western Iranian language of the Talysh people.


blue wall

blue + wall.
* (politics): From the representative color of the political party, and the solidity of support for that party in that region.

Coordinate term: red wall

(UK politics) A group of Conservative-leaning parliamentary constituencies that are seen as shifting away from the party.


Kinshasan

en-adj

Kinshasan (comparative more Kinshasan, superlative most Kinshasan)

more Kinshasan (comparative)
most Kinshasan (superlative)

Of or relating to Kinshasa, capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Chorasmian

an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in Chorasmia


Ur-Germanic

If now these prefixes are to be connected, as it seems they should be, they point to an urgermanic vowel sound differing but little, if any, in degree of openness from urgermanic e.

1896, Frank Hamilton Fowler, The negatives of the Indo-European languages:

In Germanic the distinction between perfectives and imperfectives is a survival of what was perhaps a vital distinction in Ur-germanic.

1917, University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Philological Club, Studies in philology:

OE. changes unstressed 'i' into 'e' and drops '-n' in Uroe.; the oblique cases in OE. are: micile throughout, the Urgermanic forms were: acc. [...]

1939, Niels Bøgholm, English speech from an historical point of view:

We are immediately confronted with a compound triple disjunction: 1) -*s and -*z fell together in Ur-Germanic as nondistinctive variants of a single phoneme ; or 2) they fell together in Ur-Germanic as a single sound [...]

1941, Douglas Chrétien, Indo-European final-*s in Germanic:

This practice of divided sovereignty over land, which survived into the twentieth century as the Almen of Upper Germany, seemed also to Biicher to respond to “an Ur-Germanic instinct,” [...]

2005, Heath Pearson, Origins of Law and Economics:

They stood in relation to these various tribes as an Ur-Germanic people of remarkable size and prowess.

2010, John D. Niles, Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature:

Before the early 1930s, pamphlets and journals hardly ever celebrated incineration as an ur-Germanic tradition.

2011, Alon Confino, Paul Betts, Dirk Schumann, Between Mass Death and Individual Loss:

(linguistics) Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English; Proto-Germanic.

The category of Proto-Germanic on Wiktionary


Israelian

From Israel + -ian, in the historical sense coined by American Jewish theologian Harold Louis Ginsberg in 1982 in contrast to Israelite.

coined

(historical) Of or pertaining to the northern kingdom of ancient Israel, its people, or their language.


Milyan

An extinct Indo-European language in the Anatolian group.


Hayasan

the language of Hayasa of unknown affiliation, attested in only few names


Mysian

An extinct unclassified language, possibly belonging to the Anatolian subgroup of Indo-European languages.


Juǀʼhoan

A southern variety of the ǃKung dialect continuum spoken in Namibia and Botswana.


Candiot

en-adj

Candiot (comparative more Candiot, superlative most Candiot)

more Candiot (comparative)
most Candiot (superlative)

Compare English Cypriot and French candiote.

(historical or obsolete) Of or relating to Candia (now called Heraklion).


Delon

(African-American Vernacular) A male given name


!Kung

One of [the few hunter-gatherer cultures that remain] is the !Kung of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, Africa (the exclamation point in !Kung represents one of four clicking sounds in their language).

1979, Daniel Goleman, Consciousness, the Brain, States of Awareness, and Alternate Realities, Ardent Media, →ISBN, page 166:

For example, the !Kung* Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana have an explanation for the Milky Way, which at their latitude is often overhead.
[…]
*The exclamation point is a click, made by touching the tongue against the inside of the incisors, and simultaneously pronouncing the K.

1980, Carl Sagan, “The Backbone of Night”, in Cosmos, first edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:

The exclamation point in !Kung is pronounced as a click and is characteristic of Khoisan languages.

2000, Carl N. McDaniel, John M. Gowdy, Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature, page 78:


Ally Pally

(UK, informal) Alexandra Palace, located in Muswell Hill, Greater London.


Mangareva

The Polynesian language of the Gambier Islands.


Modenese

Modenese (comparative more Modenese, superlative most Modenese)

more Modenese (comparative)
most Modenese (superlative)

Of or relating to Modena or its inhabitants.


Modenese

en-noun

Modenese (countable and uncountable, plural Modenese)

(countable) A native or inhabitant of Modena.

(uncountable) A dialect of Emilian spoken in the province of Modena.


Bina

A language spoken in Nigeria, also called Binawa.


pelicanist

From pelican + -ist. Coined by Jerome Clark in reference to claims that Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 UFO sighting was pelicans.

Kottmeyer and others who use the psychosocial hypothesis constantly produce evidence to support their ideas, whereas the ETH proponents can produce only cranky ideas about magnetic, anti-gravity or interdimensional saucers, accompanied by a constant whining about "sceptics" and "debunkers" (not to mention "armchair ufologists" and "pelicanists").

2000 November 22, “Blue Resonant Human” (username), “::: Should Saucers Spin? :::”, in alt.alien.research, Usenet

Meanwhile, those of us who’ve experienced UFOs in various ways are called mentally ill, intellectually challenged, spiritually needy, liars, drunks, drug users, attention getters, drama queens, and more. Those all are worse than being called a thug, skeptibunkie, or Pelicanist. (Pelicanist is a term coined by UFO researcher Jerome Clark.)

2006 September 12, “LordOfThyNight” (username), “The Usual Purple Tinged Hyperbole About UFOs”, in The Paranormal & Ghost Society, Usenet

As opposed to... Skepticism of the pelicanist flavor perhaps ?

2009 November 29, “Tom Booth” (username), “For Serena,”, in alt.fan.landmark, Usenet

(chiefly ufology, derogatory) Someone who attempts to explain away UFO reports by means of any explanation, however illogical.


Tall White

All of the Tall White scout craft were very high performance vehicles.

2007, Charles James Hall, Millennial Hospitality IV: After Hours, AuthorHouse, page 322:

No one is sure when the Tall Whites arrived on earth, some saying in the Pre-Columbian period […]

2007, Gregory L. Reece, UFO religion: inside flying saucer cults and culture, I. B. Tauris, page 76:

However, in the years that followed, such descriptions became so common that this type of alien became known as the Tall White.

2011, Stuart A. Kallen, Aliens, ReferencePoint Press, page 26:

(ufology) A member of a certain race of extraterrestrials


Tsat

A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken near Sanya, Hainan, China by the Utsuls.


Mono

Uncertain. The Monache, a related ethnic group, seems to derive their name from a common source as the Mono, as -chi occurs otherwise in the Yokutsan and Miwok languages as a relatively common suffix on tribal names.

A county in California, United States, see Mono County.


Abd Allah

Transliteration of Arabic عَبْد اللَّٰه (ʕabd allāh, literally “slave of God, servant of God”).

transliteration

عَبْد اللَّٰه

عَبْد اللَّٰه
عبد الله#Arabic

A transliteration of the Arabic male given name عَبْد اللَّٰه (ʕabd allāh)


Capetonian

From Cape Town (with town changed to -ton) + -ian.


Eyak

the extinct Na-Dené language of these people, formerly spoken near the mouth of the Copper River in Alaska.


Sinto

Ultimately from Sinte Romani sinto, possibly via German Sinto; see those entries for more.

Coordinate term: Sinta

A member (especially male) of a Romani people found in Germany and surrounding areas.


Senufo

A member of an ethnolinguistic group composed of diverse subgroups of Gur-speaking people living in an area spanning from southern Mali and the extreme western corner of Burkina Faso to Katiola in Côte d'Ivoire.


Senufo

A group of approximately 15 languages spoken by the Senufo.


Domari

An Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Dom people across the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and India.


rejoiner

From rejoin + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (ideological suffix).

All these obstacles are real. None can be wished away. Which is why rejoiners need to look to the likes of [Nigel] Farage and [John] Redwood for inspiration.

2023 June 23, Jonathan Freedland, “With even leavers regretting Brexit, there’s one path back to rejoining the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK politics) Someone who wants the United Kingdom to join the European Union again.


Walmajarri

A Ngumbin Australian Aboriginal suffixing language spoken in and around Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.


Ngumbin

A small Pama-Nyungan language family of central Australia, consisting of the languages Walmajarri, Djaru, Gurindji, and Mudbura.


Djaru

A Ngumbin Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Halls Creek region of Western Australia.


Thatchernomics

(economics) The economic policies followed by Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister.


clear blue water

Introduced by the Conservative Party in the 1990s.

It was the Conservatives' policy, designed in part to put some clear blue water between themselves and Labour and to refresh Conservative Party ideas.

2002, Anthony Forster, Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics, page 27:

But, Boyle's admission does put clear blue water between CC and the autonomist politics of another notorious commons enthusiast, Peter Linebaugh, who is also included in this chapter.

[…] the Conservatives can still create clear blue water between them and Labour by showing how they prioritise the family over the State.

2011, Martin H. M. Steven, Christianity and Party Politics: Keeping the Faith, page 62:

I was of the view that there ought to be clear blue water between us and the Tories on this issue.

Sitting on the bottom of both league tables - with clear blue water between it and the next worst operator - is Avanti West Coast.

2023 February 8, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: Boom or bust: time to decide”, in RAIL, number 976, page 3:

(idiomatic, especially UK politics) An obvious, unambiguous divide between the policies of two parties.

daylight

emotional or psychological distance, or disagreement; usually in the expression put daylight between oneself and someone


Litvak

Borrowed from Yiddish ליטוואַק (litvak).

A small man, sunburned as a gypsy, in a torn blouse, with a jet-black beard and enormous flashing eyes, was expostulating in a hoarse voice with a peppery Litvak accent, gesticulating violently and flinging his head from side to side.

1950, Isaac Bashevis Singer, chapter 4, in A. H. Gross et al., transl., The Family Moskat, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 60:

The rabbi under the silk wedding canopy, held up by split triangular poles of quartered eucalyptus exuding an aromatic sap, is ill at ease but ready for business. He’s a middle-aged Litvak, a stocky man in mud-spotted trousers that drip over dried muddy heels.

Kibbutz Kinneret’s famed teigelach, the honey-drenched cookies beloved by Litvaks, were parceled up in a Red Cross package, intended to reach one of its members who had fallen into Syrian captivity during the 1973 Yom Kippur war. What better way to guarantee that he would know the food came from home?

2013 April 16, Jonathan Cummings, “Digging Deep Into the Collective Kitchens of Israel”, in The Forward:

A Lithuanian Jew, or an Ashkenazi Jew from the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.


Nevin

A rare Anglicization of Irish Naomhán, a diminutive of naomh (“saint”).


Ayu

A language spoken in Kaduna State of Nigeria.


Proto-Philippine

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Philippine languages.


Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages.


Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian

From proto- + Western Malayo-Polynesian.

Western Malayo-Polynesian
Western Malayo-Polynesian

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages.


Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages.


Proto-Central Malayo-Polynesian

Central Malayo-Polynesian
Central Malayo-Polynesian

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Central Malayo-Polynesian languages.


Proto-Nuclear Polynesian

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Nuclear Polynesian languages.


Proto-Eastern Polynesian

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Eastern Polynesian languages.


Proto-South Sulawesi

A proposed common ancestor to the group of South Sulawesi languages.


Moni

A diminutive of the female given names Monica or Monika


Proto-Malayo-Chamic

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Malayo-Chamic languages.


Abung

A lect of the Indonesian province of Lampung, considered by some an independent language and by others a dialect of Lampung.


Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Malayo-Sumbawan languages.


Wuhanese

Within China, Wuhanese have become feared and discriminated against because of the epidemic. Yet the vast majority of people in Wuhan as well as the rest of China stick to meals of grains, tofu, pork and veg.

2020 May 15, Yuan Yang, “Letter from China: Sichuan goes with the flow”, in Financial Times:


Cash

en-proper noun

Cash (countable and uncountable, plural Cashes)

Variant of Case. In the US adopted by German immigrants named Kirch and Kirsch.

This ill-chosen subplot also means that Kingsolver must make Cash Stillwater (named for his mother's favorite singer, Johnny Cash) more than just a returning widower.

2014, Linda Wagner-Martin, Barbara Kingsolver's World: Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN:

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Proto-Atayalic

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Atayalic languages.