Anglish

From Angle + -ish; coined by British author Paul Jennings in 1966 as a jocular name in the British magazine Punch.

coinage

In Anglish, you might call a dictionary a ‘wordbook’.

A register or form of English that gives preference to words of native Germanic origin over words of foreign (especially those of Latin, French, or Greek) origin.


Kealy

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


buky

From Old Church Slavonic боукꙑ (buky), from Proto-Slavic *buky, from Proto-West Germanic *bōku. Doublet of beech.

Name of the letter b in Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.

боукꙑ

name of the letter b in the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets


Enochian

From Enoch + -ian, with reference to the Book of Enoch in the Bible.

constructed language
constructed language

An occult or angelic constructed language associated with this system of magic, presumably recorded by John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century.


Old Hungarian

The form of Hungarian used from the 10th to the 15th century.


who died and left you in charge

En-au-who died and left you in charge.ogg

Sarcastic response to somebody assuming a position of authority that they have not earned.


birth name

Her birth name was Elizabeth, but everyone called her Lizzie.

In California the credit card companies must issue a credit card in a person's birth name or married name, whichever the customer prefers.

A name chosen for a child at birth, as opposed to a different name used subsequently.


Camelotian

en-adj

Camelotian (comparative more Camelotian, superlative most Camelotian)

more Camelotian (comparative)
most Camelotian (superlative)

of or relating to the Arthurian legend of Camelot.


Doctor Google

Alluding to the Google search engine being the surname of a medical professional.

Using “Dr Google” for health purposes is controversial. Some have expressed concerns that it can lead to inaccurate diagnoses, bad advice on where to seek treatment (triage), and increased anxiety (cyberchondria).

2021 March 29, Natalie Grover, “Looking up health symptoms online less harmful than thought, study says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(Internet, informal) The Internet when used to seek out medical advice.


New English

The form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.

現代英語

form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift, completed in roughly 1550

Elizabethan English

Early New English (Early Modern English)


New English

en-noun

New English (plural New Englishes or New English)

New Englishes (plural)
New English (plural)

Nevertheless, a certain amount of schizophrenia pertains to the study of World Englishes as New Englishes, for while new Englishes are regarded as valid varieties in their own right, the description and delineation of them in linguistic terms is conducted through the gaze of native-speaker norms.

2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 305:

A variety of English that has come into being in a region where English was a former colonial language or is a foreign language.

This Southwest wind is called by the New-English, the Sea turne, which comes from the Sunne in the morning, about nine or ten of the clock Southeast, and about South, and then strongest Southwest in the after-noone, and towards night, when it dies away.

1643, Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, London: Gregory Dexter, →OCLC, page 11:

Another complayned of other Indians that did revile them, and call them Rogues and such like speeches for cutting off their Locks, and for cutting their Haire in a modest manner as the New-English generally doe

1647, anonymous author, The Day-Breaking, if not the Sun-Rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New-England, London: Richard Cotes; republished as “The Day-Breaking […] ”, in MHS Collections, series 3, volume 4, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1834, →OCLC, page 22:

Any honest New Englander—a New Englander of the villages, I mean—will admit that the New English are singularly ungifted for social life and manners.

1920, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, “Miss Alcott's New England”, in Modes and Morals, New York: C. Scribner's sons, →OCLC, page 195:

New England’s fisheries and the carrying trade to the West Indies demanded ships. By the end of the seventeenth century, the New English were building almost all of the vessels they employed, as well as growing numbers for English merchants.

2001, Alan Taylor, American Colonies, New York: Viking Penguin, →ISBN, page 176:

(historical, uncommon, in the plural) New Englanders.

It was already evident that the degree of influence that the New English could exert in Ireland was becoming severely restricted by governmental practices that tended to concentrate effective power in England.

1976, Aidan Clarke, “Selling Royal Favours, 1624–32”, in T. W. Moody et al., editors, A New History of Ireland, volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 235:

Instead of exporting hides and raw wool, the New English established communities devoted to tanning and weaving, and the towns of Tallow and Bandonbridge in Munster came to be recognised as model manufacturing towns.

1987, Nicholas P. Canny, From Reformation to Restoration, Dublin: Helicon, →ISBN, page 180:

The New English came to control Ireland — their ultimate expression was the powerful ascendancy which enjoyed exclusive political power in the country for more than a century, and which fought a dogged rearguard action against diminution of its power during the nineteenth century.

1991, Peter R. Newman, “New English”, in Companion to Irish History, 1603–1921, Oxford: Facts On File, →ISBN, page 132:

(historical, in the plural) English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries, as distinguished from previous Anglo-Norman invaders (the Old English).


New English

en-adj

New English (comparative more New English, superlative most New English)

more New English (comparative)
most New English (superlative)

The New English settlers, whose numbers increased during plantation, and particularly during the land settlement of the 1650s following upon the suppression of the Irish rebellion of 1641-53, were never numerically dominant.

As a Catholic lawyer and land-owner with Gaelic connections, Barnewall represented everything repugnant to full extension of New English rule in Ireland.

2002 [1985], Hans S. Pawlisch, Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics), 1st paperback edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 111:

During our period the English colonised parts of Ireland (although Old English or Anglo-Norman families were to some extent already integrated into native Irish culture and society), and certainly by the end of the sixteenth century, sought to impose English political rule over the whole island. The New English aristocrats who were now responsible for Ireland's rule more often than not did not bring their wives and families to live in Ireland.

2014 [2007], Rosemary O'Day, Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 15:

(historical) Of or pertaining to English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries.


Pskovian

Pskovian (comparative more Pskovian, superlative most Pskovian)

more Pskovian (comparative)
most Pskovian (superlative)

Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Pskov, its people, culture or language.


Tillamook

Tillamook County
Tillamook County#English

A city, the county seat of Tillamook County, Oregon, United States.


Umbri

Borrowed from Latin umbrī. Also called Ombrii in some Roman sources. Many Roman writers thought the Umbri to be Celtic; Cornelius Bocchus wrote that they descended from an ancient Gaulish tribe. Plutarch wrote that the name might be a different way of writing the name of the Celtic tribe Ambrones, which loosely means "King of the Boii". He also suggested that the Insubres, another Gaulish tribe, might be connected; their Celtic name Isombres could possibly mean "Lower Umbrians", or inhabitants of the country below Umbria.

(historical) An Italic tribe of ancient Italy.


Larina

A female given name; its shortened form is Rina.


Rina

Short form of names ending in -rina, such as Katrina, Marina and Larina. Also borrowed from other European languages, such as Italian, in the 20th century.


Helvetii

From Latin Helvetii, from a Celtic name. First element from Proto-Celtic *ɸelus (“many”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁us (“many”); second element said to be from Celtic root *ɸeitu (“grassland, terrain”), which shares an origin with Old Irish íath (“grassland, territory”).

(historical) A Gallic tribe that occupied the plain of Switzerland.


Noam

From Hebrew נועם (“pleasantness; a male name”).

bor

According to Noam Chomsky, linguistic theory should concern itself primarily with the investigation of a speaker's competence.

1981, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Bilingualism Or Not: The Education of Minorities, page 86:


Lando

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Lando, a patronymic surname from a personal name of Germanic origin.
* Borrowed from Hungarian Landó, a pet form of the personal name Lándor.

A male given name
A male given name from Italian


Monna

Borrowed from Japanese もんな (Monna) itself from Japanese 門奈 (Monna). Kanji possibly mean 門 (family, kin) and 奈 (apple), but this is unlikely.


South Efate

A Nuclear Southern Oceanic language of the Malayo-Polynesian language family, spoken on the island of Efate in central Vanuatu.


Simi

Likely formed with -i (suffix forming diminutives of given names).

affix

A diminutive of the unisex given name Simran

A diminutive of the female given name Simrita


Tagbanwa

Any of the mutually unintelligible languages spoken by the Tagbanwa: Aborlan Tagbanwa, Calamian Tagbanwa, and Central Tagbanwa.


Zabana

An Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands.


Zazao

A near-extinct Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands.


Tati

A group of northwestern Iranian dialects which are closely related to the Talysh language, spoken by the Tat people of Iran.


Coeur d'Alene

From French cœur (“heart”) + d’ (“of”) + alêne (“awl”).

Coeur d'Alene language
Coeur d'Alene people
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Indigenous Native American
Native American

An Indigenous Native American ethnic group of northern Idaho.


Coeur d'Alene

The Salishan language spoken by these people.

A city, the county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States.


Coeur d'Alene

Of or pertaining to the Coeur d'Alene people or language.


Shimaore

Maore Comorian, one of the two indigenous languages spoken in Mayotte.


Pammie

A diminutive of the female given name Pamela.


Tatum

From Tatham, from Old English Tāta, a personal name of unknown meaning + hām.

A habitational surname from Old English.

By the time a letter from Marcy finally came, explaining that the entire time she had been living on the South Side in a Negro neighborhood near the university, and that she had a son whom she'd named Tatum Kubiac—"Tatum" after a famous jazz pianist—it seemed to make little difference.

c. 1988 Stuart Dybek, Chopin in Winter, The Graywolf Short Stories, Vol.45, Graywolf Press (1988), page 82

A male given name transferred from the surname.

The youngest ever Oscar-winner is an actress called Tatum O'Neal, who was ten when she won Best Supporting Act for the film Paper Moon (1973).

2009, Jan Payne, The World's Best Book, Running Press, →ISBN, page 114:

A female given name transferred from the surname.

A city in Panola County and Rusk County, Texas, named after settlers Albert and Mary Tatum.


Chakma

Borrowed from Bengali চাকমা (cakma), from Chakma 𑄌𑄇𑄴𑄟 (cakma), 𑄌𑄋𑄴𑄟𑄳𑄦 (caṅmha), ultimately from Sanskrit शक्तिमान (śaktimāna, literally “powerful”), composed of शक्ति (śakti, “power”) + -मान (-māna).

der

The Bengali-Assamese language and abugida of the Chakmas. In the early medieval period, they underwent a language shift from their original Jingpho-Luish tongue (of the Tibeto-Burman family).


BVIslander

British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands

A native or inhabitant of the British Virgin Islands.


Buller

en-proper noun

Buller (countable and uncountable, plural Bullers)

Occupational surname for a scribe or copyist, from an agent derivative of Middle English bulle (“letter, document”).

der

A river and gorge on the West Coast, New Zealand.


Amalthean

/æməlˈθiːən/

(mythology) Of or relating to Amalthea or Amaltheia, foster-mother of Zeus, in Greek mythology.

(astronomy) Of or relating to the Jovian moon named for Amalthea.


Amalthean

/æməlˈθiːən/

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Amalthea.


Harriette

A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Harriet


Paamese

The language of the island of Paama in Northern Vanuatu.


Caraquenian

A native or inhabitant of Caracas in Venezuela.


Gawain

From Middle English Gawayne, from Old French Gauvain, from Old Welsh [Term?], probably of Celtic origin, like many other characters from Arthurian legends, perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *gwalx (“hawk”) (from Proto-Celtic *wolkos) + *gwɨnn (“white”). Doublet of Gavin. More at Gawain.

One of the greatest knights in Arthurian legend; he is King Arthur's nephew and a Knight of the Round Table.

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights


Old Lithuanian

The written form of Lithuanian used in the 16th and 17th centuries.


Ailan

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.


Hyrum

A male given name associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


Lillooet

A member of an Interior Salish people located in the southern Coast Mountains and Fraser Canyon region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.


Lillooet

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A district municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.


jeem

The underlying letters themselves are a concept. For example, the Arabic letter jeem can be rendered by any of four possible glyphs (depending on where the letter jeem is positioned in the text).

2013, John D. Byrum, Olivia Madison, Multi-script, Multilingual, Multi-character Issues for the Online Environment, page 100:


ghayn

(linguistics) The Cyrillic letter Ғ in various Central Asian languages.

The Hebrew 'Ayn has, it is true, in many cases — some scholars say always — the sound of the Arabic ghayn […]

1872, Richard Francis Burton et al., Unexplored Syria:


Nabataean

Latin Nabataeus, Ancient Greek Ναβαταῖος (Nabataîos), ultimately from the same root as Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ)

uder

Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ)


Mam

A Mayan language spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas and the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu.


Kumiko

Transliteration of Japanese 駒実子 (Kumiko) and many other spellings. See くみこ.


grumbletonian

He was often dis-guſted, and thought a Grumble-tonian; but there was no getting an inſight into his Proceedings. He’d be counted ſometimes (behind the Curtain) a High-Flyer, and Tory-rory-Ranter; yet, by his natural In-ſtinks, he inclined to be of the Low-Party: Some ſay he was of no Side, but between both.

1722, The Rump Examin’d; with It’s Secrets Discover’d, and laid open, A. Moore, page 18:

(obsolete, UK politics, derogatory, slang) Originally a member of the 17th-century Country Party; later a member of the opposition.


quarter farthing

en-noun

quarter farthing (plural quarter farthings)

[‘]The score, however, was only 10 thalers, 4 groschen, 6 pfennigs’ (30 shillings, 5 pence, and 2 or perhaps 3 quarter-farthings), ‘for what I had run-up in eight weeks[.]’

1750 June–August, Thomas Carlyle, in The Works of Thomas Carlyle III (2010), ed. Henry Duff Traill, page 257

(historical numismatics) A British coin, produced for circulation in Ceylon 1839–1853, which, at a face value of ⅟₁₆d. (£⅟₃₈₄₀), is the lowest denomination of coin ever minted for the United Kingdom.

quart de farthing

former British coin denominated to ⅟₁₆d.


Hela

Alternative form of Elu (“ancestral form of the Sinhalese language”)


three halfpence

head

three halfpence (sometimes a plural noun with the singular three halfpenny, sometimes singular, plural three halfpences)

(historical numismatics) A silver coin with a face value of one and a half pence (1½d.):

Such a British coin (1½d. = £⅟₁₆₀), minted 1834–1843 and 1860–1862 for circulation in the colonies of the British Empire (chiefly Ceylon and the West Indies).


Emmaline

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a form of Emmeline.


River

en-proper noun

River (countable and uncountable, plural Rivers)

Wash: Little River gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next?
Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up.
Wash: I hope she does the soup thing, it's always a hoot and we don't all die from it.

2002 December 13, Joss Whedon, Firefly, season 1, episode 14, Objects in Space

The Doctor: Oh, this is my friend River. Nice hair, clever, and has her own gun. And unlike me, she really doesn't mind shooting people. I shouldn't like that. Kinda do, a bit.

2011 April 30, Steven Moffat, Doctor Who, series 6, episode 2, Day of the Moon

Apparently, early in the day, a journalist had decided to bring up his brother River Phoenix's death in his interview, which threw him off and trainwrecked the day for everyone, including me.

2017, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 131:

A suburban village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2943).

A hamlet in Tillington parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9322).

A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States.


Lucina

From Middle English Lucina and Lucyna, from Latin Lūcīna.


Leipon

An Austronesian language spoken on Hauwai, Ndrilo and Pityilu islands, just off Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.


Bev

A diminutive of the female given names Beverly and Beverley.


Chinookan

Of or relating to a small language family spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples.


Campanian

(geology) The fifth of six geological ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch, spanning the time from 83.6 ± 0.7 to 72.1 ± 0.6 million years ago. It is preceded by the Santonian and followed by the Maastrichtian.


Tangut

Bilgä Qaǧan
Ming dynasty
Richard Hakluyt
Secret History of the Mongols
Tangut language
Tangut people
Tangut script
William of Rubruck

From a Middle Mongol exonym used by the Mongols, which would become the Classical Mongolian ᠲᠠᠩᠭᠤᠳ (tangɣud) that was phonetically transcribed in Ming-era Early Mandarin Chinese as 唐兀_惕 (/*tʰaŋ(ŋ)ut/) in the Chinese edition of the Secret History of the Mongols (《元朝秘史》). The designation ultimately derives from Old Turkic 𐱃𐰭𐰆𐱃 (t¹ŋut¹) as attested in the 8th-century Bilgä Qaǧan stele. The English word, and similar forms in European languages, derives from Medieval Latin Tangut (*Tangunt in the Leiden manuscript) from the accounts of William of Rubruck compiled in the 1250s. The English form was attested in the writings of Richard Hakluyt who translated parts of William's accounts in the late 16th century.


Catrina

A female given name, variant of Catherine


Rhianna

A variant spelling of Rihanna, from Arabic رَيْحَانَة (rayḥāna, singulative of رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil; myrtle”)). This spelling possibly influenced by unrelated Welsh names such as Rhiannon.

bor

singulative of <i class="Arab mention" lang="ar">رَيْحَان</i> (rayḥān, “basil; myrtle”)

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Rihanna.


Woleaian

A Trukic language spoken on Woleai and surrounding islands in Micronesia.


Alpheus

From Ancient Greek Ἀλφειός (Alpheiós, literally “Whitish”).

uder

A male given name, of mostly historical usage.


Shughni

Southeastern Iranian
Southeastern Iranian

a Pamir language of the Southeastern Iranian language group spoken in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan and Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan


Mkhitar

Մխիթար Մխիթար#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Մխիթար (Mxitʻar).


maddah

آسِف آسف#Arabic

قُرْآن قرآن#Arabic

Arabic diacritic similar in appearance to a tilde. Over an alif (آ (ʔā) "alif maddah"), it indicates glottal stop, /ʔ/, followed by a long /aː/. The diacritic is not used separately, only over alif. Alif maddah can appear in the beginning: آسِف (ʔāsif) or in the middle of a word: قُرْآن (qurʔān).


Cocopah

Borrowed from Cocopa kwii capáy (literally “cloud people”).

bor

A member of a Native American people living in Baja California and Sonora, Mexico, and in Arizona in the United States.


Cocopah

Their language, belonging to the Delta-California branch of the Yuman language family.


what hath God wrought

Archaic form of the question “what has God made?”, from the Bible, King James Version; popularized especially by being used as the first message sent by telegraph in the United States, by Samuel Morse (May 24, 1844).

A divine unction evidently attended his ministry, and such were the effects produced, that every beholder, with astonishment and admiration, cried "what hath God wrought!"

1855, Thomas Raffles, A Burning and A Shining Light, page 151:

"Oh, my God !" he cried. "He's invented photography." "What hath God wrought?" said the old man, trying to get up.

1925, Donald Ogden Stewart, The Crazy Fool, page 224:

Surely of this work, and of this time, it shall be said, what hath God wrought!

1969, Paul W. Glad, The Process of American History: Early America, page 84:

When Frank put the receiver to his ear, a sepulchral voice asked, "What hath God wrought?"

1987, Edward Fischer, Notre Dame Remembered: An Autobiography, page 173:

The rich man got up, called off the suit and everybody said, “What hath God wrought?”

2011, A. W. Tozer, James L. Snyder, A Disruptive Faith: Expect God to Interrupt Your Life, page 186:

(archaic) An expression of wonder and marvel at something.


Ashkharhabar

The Modern Armenian language; usually contrasted with Grabar.


Trasyanka

From Belarusian трася́нка (trasjánka, “low quality mixed grains”), related to трэсці́ (trescí, “to shake”) (3rd person plural - трасу́ць).

uder

A pidgin language or interlanguage combining elements of Russian and Belarusian, spoken in Belarus.


Surzhyk

From Ukrainian су́ржик (súržyk) and regional Russian су́ржик (súržik, “bread made from a dough from different types of grains”).

“I was waiting for them with so much happiness,” Larisa, 74, said in surzhik, a dialect that is a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian.

2022 September 14, Valerie Hopkins, “War May Be Distant in Moscow, but in One Russian Border City, It’s Real”, in The New York Times:

A pidgin language or interlanguage combining elements of Russian and Ukrainian, spoken mainly in Ukraine but also some neighbouring regions in Russia (Kursk, Voronezh and Belgorod) or Ukrainians living in Russia.


Bushbama

Blend of Bush + Obama, from surnames of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

(US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush and Barack Obama, seen as a continuation of the same political agenda.


yery

A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet: ы (y), now usually simply called "ы"


Yan

A male given name, equivalent to English John.


Savita

From Sanskrit सविता (savitā, “sun, sun's light or energy”).


Alexiares

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξιάρης (Alexiárēs, literally “Warding-Off-War”), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend (against)”) + Ἄρης (Árēs, “War”).

com

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Jamila

From Arabic جَمِيلَة (jamīla, “beautiful”).


Corrinne

From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, literally “Maiden”).


Eirene

From Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, literally “Peace”).


Justitia

Translingual: Justitia

From Latin iustitia (“Justice”). Doublet of justice.


Core

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).


Oropom

A language, of disputed existence, supposed to have been spoken by the Oropom.


Mahmud

Transliteration of Arabic مَحْمُود (maḥmūd, literally “praised, laudable”), the passive participle of the Form I verb حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to praise”), from the triconsonantal root ح م د (ḥ-m-d). The name Muhammad comes from the same root, and has a similar meaning.


Kizzie

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Kizzy.


Kizzy

From a pet form of Kezia. Explained as a Mandinka name by Alex Haley in Roots (1976).

In Mandinka it meant, "You stay here". [ - - - ] Bell was indignant when she heard the name. "Kizzy! Ain't nobody never heared of dat name! Ain't gon' no nothin' but stir up trouble." But Kunta explained its meaning, and she relented.

1976 Alex Haley, Roots, Reader's Digest:Treasury of Great Books, volume 110 (1977), page 164


command paper

So called because they are presented to Parliament formally "by Her Majesty's Command".

(UK) A document issued by the government and presented to Parliament.


Bryony

From the bryony plant in the 19th century.


Theodosia

Borrowed from Latin Theodosia, from Ancient Greek Θεοδοσία (Theodosía). Feminine form of Theodosius. Doublet of Feodosiya.

Theda Bara, born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was one of the most popular actresses of the silent-film era.


Paulena

A rare (non-standard) variant of Paulina.


Sidnee

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Tai Long

Yu Yuk-chun, 85, moved to Tai Long on Lantau Island some 40 years ago to live with her husband, an indigenous resident of the village.

2014 March 17, Fanny W. Y. Fung, “Residents of remote Lantau village reveal their plight”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-03-20, Hong Kong:

A village of South Lantao Rural Committee in Chi Ma Wan, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Elu

Borrowed from Sinhalese එළු (eḷu), හෙළු (heḷu), from Prakrit 𑀲𑀻𑀳𑀮 (sīhala) (compare Pali sīhala), from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala, literally “lionlike”), from सिंह (siṃha, “lion”) + -ल (-la). Doublet of Ceylon and Sinhala.

der

the ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE.


Pakistani English

Much more common was the bureaucratic use of Pakistani English. Below the level of the most highly educated, whose English was invariably modelled on old-fashioned teaching, were the English-using clerks of the Imperial administration.

1986, Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., page 329:

A dialect of the English language, having one variety in Pakistan, and also spoken by Pakistani expatriates, Pakistani migrants, and Pakistani tourists throughout the world.


Vanji

An extinct Iranian language formerly spoken in the Vanj River valley of Tajikistan.


Ngaatjatjarra

Western Desert language
Western Desert language

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


Ngaatjatjarra

Pertaining to the Ngaatjatjarra language or the people who speak it.


Leidener

From Leiden + -er. Compare German Leidener.

The choice to retain a tax rather than to forgo a university (whose benefits Leideners continue to enjoy) demonstrated that the burghers of the Netherlands did not object to taxes as such.

1994, John H. Makin, Norman J. Ornstein, Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What We Can Do about It, New York, NY: Times Books, →ISBN, page 52:

A native or inhabitant of Leiden, Netherlands.


Old Low German

In particular, we will cover Old High German (OHG), Old Low German (OLG, including Old Saxon/OS and Old Low Franconian/OLFr, sometimes also referred to as Old Dutch), Old English (OE), and Old Frisian (OFri).

2021, Agnes Jäger, George Walkden, West Germanic, p. 281; in: Götz Keydana, Wolfgang Hock, Paul Widmer (eds.), Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European, p. 281ff.


Mantjiltjara

A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language; one of the principle components of Martu Wangka, part of the Western Desert language group.


Xinjiangese

He takes a beautiful ivory and bamboo waterpipe out of a trunk, and packs the bowl with layer after layer of Xinjiangese herbs and sticky hash, grinning. "Most Chinese people hate it, but we Xinjiang people love to fly."

1992 October, Andrew F. Jones, “Beijing Bastards”, in Spin, volume 8, number 7, New York, N.Y.: Spin Magazine, →OCLC, page 122:

The ancient dynasty's storied openness to cultural influences (and particularly exotic new musics) arriving from central Asia and the Middle East through the frontier province of Xinjiang informed the band's choice of musical elements – a mix of heavy metal, Xinjiangese folk harmonies and traditional Chinese instruments.

1998, Chinese Music, volumes 21–22, Woodridge, Ill.: Chinese Music Society of North America, page 56:

Sources of instability [in China] include terrorist threats by radical groups in Xinjiang as well as a broader group of Xinjiangese and Tibetans who desire independence or at least greater autonomy.

2006, Randall Peerenboom, “An Empirical Overview of Rights Performance in Asia, France, and the USA: The Dominance of Wealth in the Interplay of Economics, Culture, Law, and Governance”, in Randall Peerenboom, Carole J. Petersen, Albert H[ung-yee] Chen, editors, Human Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the USA, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 18:

Of, from or pertaining to the region of Xinjiang.


Antisthenes

From Latin Antisthenēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀντισθένης (Antisthénēs).

A Greek male given name from Ancient Greek, notably borne by Antisthenes of Athens (445–365 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, founder of the school of Cynicism and a pupil of Socrates


Ancus

An Italic male given name from Latin, notably borne by Ancus Marcius, a legendary king of Rome


Appius

From Latin Appius, probably a Latinized form of an Italic name Attius, from Oscan, Umbrian, or Sabine.

A Roman male given name from Latin, notably borne by Appius Claudius Caecus, a Roman politician of the 4th and 3rd century BC, builder of the Appian Way


Alcibiades

From Latin Alcibiadēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκιβιάδης (Alkibiádēs).

Alcibiades was a happy union of coxcomb and conqueror; but there was in him a want of that repose, and of that superb self-reliance, which characterises the Roman.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 36–37:

A Greek male given name from Ancient Greek, notably borne by Alcibiades (450–404 B.C.), a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.


Jagoda

From Macedonian Јагода (Jagoda), from јагода (jagoda, “strawberry”).

Јагода Јагода#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Јагода (Jagoda)


Arcadius

From Latin Arcadius, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκάδιος (Arkádios, “of Arcadia”). See Arcadia for more information.

Enter Arcadius and Polidora

1811, The Dramatic Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, page 203:

A male given name from Ancient Greek, of mostly historical use. Seen slightly more commonly as Arcade, from French.


Green Hmong

Calque of Green Hmong Moob Leeg (“Green/Blue Hmong”).

calque

A Hmongic lect spoken in Laos and elsewhere, including among Hmong American communities, and written using the Latin or Pahawh Hmong scripts.


Arius

From Latin Arīus, from Ancient Greek Ἄρειος (Áreios), from Ἄρης (Árēs).

A Greek male given name from Ancient Greek, notably borne by Arius, circa 250–336, a priest in Alexandria, the founder of Arianism


Hmong Daw

From White Hmong Hmoob Dawb (“White Hmong”).


White Hmong

Calque of White Hmong Hmoob Dawb (“White Hmong”).


Kensiu

An Austroasiatic language of the Jahaic (Northern Aslian) subbranch.


Afanasy

Transliteration of Russian Афана́сий (Afanásij). Doublet of Athanasius.


Dagbani

A Gur language spoken in the northern region of Ghana, closely related to Mampruli.


Aetius

From Latin Aetius, from Ancient Greek Ἀέτιος (Aétios), perhaps from ἀετός (aetós, “eagle”).

An Ancient Greek and Roman male given name from Ancient Greek.


Iceni

(historical) A Brythonic tribe in Britannia who inhabited an area corresponding roughly to the modern-day county of Norfolk, from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.


Athanasius

/ˌæθəˈneɪʃəs/

Borrowed from Latin Athanasius, from Ancient Greek Ἀθανάσιος (Athanásios), from ἀθανάσιος (athanásios, “immortal”), from ἀθάνατος (athánatos, “immortal”). Doublet of Afanasy and tansy.

Athanasius of Alexandria’s thirty-ninth Festal Letter remains one of the most significant documents in the history of the Christian Bible. Athanasius wrote the letter, which contains the first extant list of precisely the twenty-seven books of the current New Testament canon, in 367 C.E., during the final decade of his life.

2010 January, David Brakke, “A New Fragment of Athanasius’s Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter: Heresy, Apocrypha, and the Canon”, in Harvard Theological Review, volume CIII, № 1, page 47:

An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek


Borys

From Ukrainian Бори́с (Borýs). Compare Belarusian Барыс (Barys), Russian Бори́с (Borís).

A male given name from Ukrainian. Alternative form of Boris


Haroon

A male given name from Arabic, variant of Harun, equivalent to English Aaron


Veniamin

From Russian Вениами́н (Veniamín). Doublet of Benjamin.


Gavriil

From Russian Гаврии́л (Gavriíl). Doublet of Gabriel.


Vasily

From Russian Васи́лий (Vasílij). Doublet of Basil.


Heraclius

/ˌhɛɹəˈklaɪəs/

From Latin Hērāclīus, from Ancient Greek Ἡράκλειος (Hērákleios).

An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek, notably borne by several Byzantine emperors and Georgian kings


Hamilcar

From Latin Hamilcar, from Punic 𐤇𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕 (ḥmlqrt, literally “brother of Melqart”).


Selenite

From Selene (“the Moon”) + -ite. From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “goddess of the Moon”).

uder

My first impression was of some clumsy quadruped with lowered head. Then I perceived it was the slender pinched body and short and extremely attenuated bandy legs of a Selenite, with his head depressed between his shoulders.

1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Selenite’s Face”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 136:

(science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


Hamer

* As an English surname, from the place in Lancashire, from Old English hamor (“cliff”), apparently a rare use instead of the sense for "hammer" (compare Old Norse hamarr (“stone, cliff”).
* As an English surname of Norman origin, variant of Amer.
* As a Dutch surname, from hamer (“hammer”).
* As a German and Jewish surname, variant of the noun Hammer (“hammer”), with several Slavic derivatives.

An unincorporated community in Williams County, Ohio.

An unincorporated community in Dillon County, South Carolina.


Hamer

A South Omotic language spoken primarily in southern Ethiopia by the Hamar people and Banna people, and by speakers of Karo.


Hasdrubal

From Latin Hasdrubal, from Punic 𐤏𐤆𐤓𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ʿzrbʿl /ʿazrōbaʿl/, literally “Help of the Lord (Baal)”).

der

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Hasdrubal Barca and several other Carthaginians


Wynn

From the Welsh surname, from the name Gwyn. Also spelled as Wynne.


New Zealandress

en-noun

New Zealandress (plural New Zealandresses)

…her last despairing, supplicating look, as she was taken a few yards off, and killed, by that virago, Mrs. Haupapa—the fiendish New Zealandress.

1866, John Alexander Wilson, The Story of Te Waharoa … A Chapter in Early New Zealand History, →ISBN, page 54:

Being an easily enfranchised New Zealandress, I found myself lodged midway between the two camps…

1912 December 14, Mrs. Leopold Myers, “Pankhurst and Party.”, in New Zealand Herald, page 1:

Neptunes in hempen wigs waltzed with the lean New Zealandress, who had stuck flowers from a hat into her fair hair, to impersonate Oceania.

1928, Marc Chadourne, Vasco, →ISBN, page 87:

The New Zealandress is as sports-minded as her brother…

1977, Nina and Jim Munro, A Taste of New Zealand in Food and Pictures, →ISBN, page 92:

(rare, chiefly obsolete) A female New Zealander.


Denton

en-proper noun

Denton (countable and uncountable, plural Dentons)

From Old English denu (“valley, den”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A male given name transferred from the place name.


Grigory

From Russian Григо́рий (Grigórij), from Byzantine Greek Γρηγόριος (Grēgórios). Doublet of Gregory.

Григо́рий Григорий#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Григо́рий (Grigórij), equivalent to Gregory.


Desiderius

/ˌdɛzɪˈdɪəɹɪəs/

Learned borrowing from Latin Desiderius (literally “the longed-for”).


Eusebius

From Latin Eusebius, from Ancient Greek Εὐσέβιος (Eusébios).


Eugenius

Borrowed from Latin Eugenius, from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios). Doublet of Eugene and Yevgeny.

Most were built using screw-piles and 10 of them were designed by the great leader of his craft Eugenius Birch.

1982 February 4, Fred Pearce, “The end of the pier show”, in New Scientist, volume 93, number 1291, pages 298–299:

A male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek]


Yevgeny

From Russian Евге́ний (Jevgénij). Doublet of Eugene and Eugenius.


Yelizaveta

From Russian Елизаве́та (Jelizavéta). Doublet of Elizabeth.

Елизаве́та Елизавета#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Елизаве́та (Jelizavéta), equivalent to Elizabeth.


Yelisei

From Russian Елисе́й (Jeliséj). Doublet of Elisha.


Yeremei

From Russian Ереме́й (Jereméj). Doublet of Jeremy.


Ignaty

A Russian male given name from Russian, equivalent to English Ignatius.


Zakhar

From Russian Заха́р (Zaxár). Doublet of Zachary.


Zeuxis

From Latin Zeuxis, from Ancient Greek Ζεῦξις (Zeûxis).


Ilya

From Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá). Doublet of Elijah.

Илья́ Илья#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Илья́ (Ilʹjá).


Yefrem

From Russian Ефре́м (Jefrém). Doublet of Ephraim.


Yazdegerd

From 𐭩𐭦𐭣𐭪𐭫𐭲𐭩 (yzdklty) / Middle Persian 𐭩𐭦𐭣𐭪𐭥𐭲𐭩 (Yazdegerd, Yazdgird, literally “made by God”), from 𐭩𐭦𐭣 (Yazd) + 𐭪𐭥𐭲𐭩 (-gird, -kirt).

uder

An Iranian male given name from Middle Persian, notably borne by several Sassanid kings


Bode

* As a Dutch and German surname, from bode (“messenger”).
* As a German and Danish surname, from the name Bodo, derived from Old Saxon bodo (“messenger”), related to above.
* As a Dutch and German surname, from Bude (“booth, small house”).


Ely

From Old English Ēlīg, of uncertain origin.


Arkie

United States of America
United States of America

(US, informal) A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.


Koichi

Borrowed from Japanese こういち (Kōichi), a male given name with many variant kanji spellings.


Mundari

Borrowed from Mundari मुंडारी (muṇḍārī).

A Munda language spoken by tribes in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal, and in northern Bangladesh.

An Eastern Nilotic language spoken by an ethnic group of South Sudan.


Nisenan

A member of the Southern or Valley Maidu, various Native American groups of central California.


Melanau

Their Northwest Malayo-Polynesian language.


Padaung

A member of a tribe of Burma's Kayan ethnic group, known for wearing copper neck rings.


Iolanthe

From Koine Greek ἰόλη (iólē, “violet”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”). Cognate with French Yolande, Spanish Yolanda.


PPC

en-noun

PPC (countable and uncountable, plural PPCs)

(UK politics) Initialism of prospective parliamentary candidate: a candidate selected for a future election before the election campaign has officially begun.


Powhatan

A member of a Native American confederation of tribes in Virginia.


Powhatan

An unincorporated community, the county seat of Powhatan County, Virginia, United States.


Europasian

en-adj

Europasian (comparative more Europasian, superlative most Europasian)

more Europasian (comparative)
most Europasian (superlative)


Arabish

The Arabic language when informally written in the Latin alphabet, typically on computers or cell phones that do not support the Arabic script.


Chavril

However one feels about the engagement of Canadian pop stars Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger, one thing is certain: When People magazine stunned the world with the news late Tuesday, the reaction was instantaneous. Twitter was afire with news of Canada’s answer to Brangelina. In Chavril, Canada had its own royal couple.

2012 August 23, Marsha Lederman, “Is Chavril our own Brangelina pairing?”, in The Globe and Mail:

Avril Lavigne is rumoured to have been married in her "favourite place to be."
The Here's To Never Growing Up hitmaker was set to tie the knot with Chad Kroeger in Cannes, France, on Monday.

2013, "Chavril hitched in France", The Province, 2 July 2013 (only used in title)

A three-album compilation by various adult artists, including Canuck crooners Sarah Harmer, The Barenaked Ladies, Sarah McLachlan and Canada's pre-Chavril sweethearts Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida.

2013 September 17, Lyranda Martin Evans, Fiona Stevenson, “Kids' CDs even parents will like”, in Metro, Edmonton, page 35:

(Canada, slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne, together from 2012 to 2015.


Aachener

Borrowed from German Aachener, equal to Aachen + -er.

Von Schwerin arrived in Aachen late on the night of the twelfth, his Army Volkswagen fighting its way through the panic-stricken Aacheners, fleeing from the city which was already burning from the first American shells.

1972, Charles Whiting, Werewolf: The Story of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944–1945, London: Leo Cooper Ltd, →ISBN, page 24:

A native or inhabitant of Aachen, Germany.


Raf

The Nets players sometimes jokingly call Derrick Coleman, of all things, Joe Jackson. Joe Jackson? Coleman says it comes courtesy of forward Rafael Addison. […] "It's just something Raf started," Coleman said of the nickname.

1993 January 24, Mike Freeman, “Nets' Coleman: No Ordinary 'Joe'”, in The New York Times:

A diminutive of the male given name Rafael.


Shelbi

Fanciful 20th-century spelling of Shelby.

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Ronga

A southeastern Bantu language spoken just south of Maputo in Mozambique.


Judeo-Aramaic

A group of Hebrew-influenced Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic languages.


Neo-Aramaic

A group of modern Aramaic languages evolved from Middle Aramaic dialects around 1200 AD.


Alala

From Ancient Greek Ἀλαλά (Alalá), from Ancient Greek ἀλαλή (alalḗ, literally “loud cry, war cry”).


Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai

The Upland Yuman language spoken by the Havasupai, Hualapai, and Yavapai peoples in central and northwest Arizona.


subsaharan

Ben Bella, the Arab, "won approval of subsaharans," the U.S. State Department noted dryly.

2004, Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976, page 213:

[…] found them most closely linked to non-San modern subsaharans.

2005, Ian Tattersall, The Human Fossil Record, Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia), page 34:

I do not think this article says much about separation between subsaharans and the rest

1999, ypar, “Re: The egyptians were black”, in sci.anthropology (Usenet):


Old Iranian

Collective name for a number of extinct Iranian languages which are descended from Proto-Iranian.

հին իրանական

languages directly descended from Proto-Iranian


Middle Iranian

Collectively, a number of Indo-European Iranian languages spoken between the 4th century BC and the 9th century AD.

միջին իրանական

Iranian languages spoken between 4th century BC and 9th century AD


Dawna

The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn.

2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, page 292:


Jos

[…] Mr. Jos had the honour of leading out the Countess of Schlusselback, an old lady with a hump back, but with sixteen good quarters of nobility and related to half the royal houses of Germany.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 63, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

Joseph Rudge and his family had for some time been living in the new hut, about twenty miles from the head station. […] "Right, Jos," said Mat Clark, his mate; […]

1867, William Henry G. Kingston, editor, Taking tales for cottage homes, pages 9–10:

A diminutive of the male given name Joseph


Merina

A member of the a highlander Malagasy ethnic group in Madagascar whose core territory corresponds to the former Antananarivo Province in the centre of the island.


Tiele

zh-m

鐵勒／铁勒 (Tiělè)

A member of a confederation of Turkic peoples living to the north of China and in Central Asia, emerging after the disintegration of the Xiongnu confederacy.


Spokane

A number of etymologies of the name have been proposed, most frequently Sun children, children of the Sun, or muddy people. According to Barry Pritzker (2011), these interpretations are most probably popular etymologies derived from an actual self-designation of Spoqe'ind, meaning round head.

A Native American Plateau tribe who inhabited the eastern portion of Washington state and parts of northern Idaho.


Spokane

The language of the Spokane tribe, a member of the Salish (or Salishan) language family.

A large city, the county seat of Spokane County, Washington.

Any of various other places in the United States.


Rotterdammer

From Rotterdam + -er, probably modelled on Dutch Rotterdammer.


Dortmunder

Borrowed from German, or from Dortmund + -er.


Belgrader

a native or resident of Belgrade, Serbia


K Street

From the alphabetic naming of streets when the road grid of Washington was laid down.
* (politics): After K Street in Washington, D.C.

(US, politics, by restriction) The section of K Street, D.C., USA, where political lobbyists have their offices.


Darmstädter

This particular deficiency is betrayed, though, in quite another direction, by the course adopted by the Darmstädters in dealing with the question of naming their streets.

1887, W[illiam] Beatty-Kingston, Music and Manners: Personal Reminiscences and Sketches of Character, volume II (Manners), London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, page 341:

Many Darmstädters also comforted themselves with the thought that their town was such an attractive place that the Allied armies, now only 80 miles from the stretch of the Rhine nearest to them, would no doubt want to use it as an area headquarters when the fighting stopped.

1993, James Fyfe, The Great Ingratitude: Bomber Command in World War II, Wigtown: G.C. Book Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 186:

A police car stationed in front of the synagogue was less a reminder that this welcome might not be shared by all Darmstädters (which undoubtedly was the case, because Darmstadt like the entire Weinstrasse had been notoriously “brown”), than a reflection of typical anxieties of the German state and the Darmstadt community after the Holocaust.

2017, Michael Geyer, “Die Bratus: Sketch for a Minor German History”, in Michael Meng, Adam R. Seipp, editors, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective, New York, N..Y: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, section IV (Family Histories), page 265:


Tuyuhun

zh-l

吐谷渾／吐谷浑 (tǔyùhún)

(historical) The language of the Tuyuhun kingdom.


Brandenburger

/ˈbɹændənbɜːɡə/

/ˈbɹændɚnbɝɡɚ/

Brandenburg an der Havel
Brandenburg an der Havel

A person from Brandenburg an der Havel (city of Germany).


Xianbei

鮮卑／鲜卑 (Xiānbēi)

(historical) An ancient Mongolic nomadic people who resided in what is now eastern Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and northeast China.


McDungheap's

Anyhow, it's obvious that you created this mesage^([sic]) out of pure fantasy since the patties at McDungheap's are almost always dry.

1997 September 22, Bosco!, “Re: disgusting, greasy burgers”, in alt.food.mcdonalds (Usenet):

2012 January 16, Unifarva-2012 The Year of the Robby, “HEY ROBBY! i ate at McDungheap's Today!!”, in alt.food.mcdonalds (Usenet):

2013 May 10, J.R.R. Bob Dobbs EPV, “Get your McDungheap's Fix while you can.”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

(slang, humorous, derogatory) McDonald's, viewed as a purveyor of low-quality food.


Tsolak

An Armenian male given name from Armenian


Titanean

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Titan (the Saturnian moon)


Esmeh

A female given name, Alternative form of Esmé


Macaoese

A person from Macao or of Macao descent.


Hong Konger

Hong Kongers are invited to apply for a new British National Overseas (BNO) visa that leads to citizenship.

2021 January 30, “Hong Kongers eye British citizenship but fear retaliation from China”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

A person from Hong Kong or of Hong Kong descent.


Mikasuki

The language spoken by the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida.


outworlder

It is a thing no outworlder may know except those very few who have been involved.

1967, “Amok Time”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):

He speaks with the outworlder tongue!
What else were you expecting from a male, sister Dykstra?

1995, Among Friends And Enemies, Part 3: The Magical Mystery Tour (Gen13), volume 2, number 3 (comic), page 19:

Let each government make sure that rich and poor alike, dirtborn and outworlder, Terran and Variant, all have equal access to the outernet and its resources.

1998, Celia S. Friedman, This Alien Shore:

(science fiction, fantasy) One who comes from another planet, or from a society so culturally foreign as to be a different world.


Central Nahuatl

A group of Nahuatl lects spoken in central Mexico.


Ninoscka

A female given name of eastern European origin, from a diminutive of Nina; a variant of Ninotchka.


Ninotchka

From Russian Ни́ночка (Nínočka), a diminutive of Ни́на (Nína).


Ninoshka

From Russian Нино́шка (Ninóška), a diminutive of Ни́на (Nína).


Ethelthryth

Æðelþryð Æðelþryð

A female given name form of Etheldreda from Æðelþryð.


Diegueño

The Kumeyaay, a Native American people of Southern California and Baja California.


Kavalan

From Kavalan kebalan, meaning "people of the plains".


Hamad

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَد (ḥamad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “praise”).


Arkansasan

/ˈɑː(ɹ)kənˌsɔːn/


Arkansawyer

From Arkansaw (older spelling of Arkansas) + -yer.

suffix

older spelling of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Arkansas</i>

One opponent accused him of being "to the left of Hubert Humphrey," which was a hard thing to say about an Arkansawyer in 1970.

2003 March 9, Roy Reed, "Another Guy From Arkansas" (Book review of The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir by Dale Bumpers), New York Times (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)

The words Arkansan, Arkansawyer and Arkie are in common use. Each term has its partisans and its detractors.

2007 Dec. 26, "Sizing up Arkansan vs. Arkansawyer," The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (reposted at Arkansas Online) (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)

(US) A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.


Wemale

Their Malayo-Polynesian language, divided into northern and southern forms.


Emmet

From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Mofftiss

Rathbone was a perfect Holmes. Unfortunately, those films were ruined for me by Nigle Bruce's Watson, who started a tradition of 'stupid Watson' that made some people think the original character was like that. Thank Mofftiss they didn't go that way for Sherlock.

2012 January 12, Diane L., “Re: Wales Today Poll on Best Ever Sherlock Holmes”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet):

Mofftiss created masterpiece reinvention of the classic Conan-Doyle sleuth Sherlock Holmes got twisted into the hideous 'Elementary,' […]

2013, Nick Carter, "Remade in America", 1624, Issue 1, Spring 2013, page 6

On Amazon, shoppers can already pre-order the complete third season on DVD — even though the episodes haven’t been screened yet and all that has been keeping Sherlock obsessives sane is a few snippets in a BBC teaser trailer. The site is also allowing customer reviews, so fans have piled in to give their fictitious accounts. So, er, fake spoiler alert!
[…]
Another reviewer agreed with that judgment — but for rather different reasons: “This should at least be an 18,” writes someone passing themselves off as David Tennant. “Mofftiss made Johnlock a reality, and almost every scene involved rampant gay sex. I loved it, but I’m not sure it’s suitable for the little ones.”

2013 September 9, Rosamund Urwin, “Cumberfiction: the Sherlock fans 'reviewing' the new series before they've seen it”, in London Evening Standard:

(fandom slang) The creative duo of screenwriters Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.


Moose Javian

During the last week in June each year a tradition known locally as "sidewalk days" brings this diverse population of Moose Javians together for three days of outdoor shopping on Main Street.

1987, Don McLean, Fifty Historical Vignettes: Views of the Common People, Gabriel Dumont Institute, →ISBN, page 198:

Key Wong, a born-and-raised Moose Javian, recalls his father arrived in Moose Jaw in 1905 as a thirteen-year-old.

2001, John Larsen, Maurice Richard Libby, Moose Jaw: People, Places, History, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 31:

I also lingered in the poetry section of the Moose Jaw Public Library where I discovered and delighted in Dante, Yeats, Eliot, Frost, Auden and Wallace Stevens. […] What was a muddle-headed sixteen-year-old Moose Javian to make of "The Idea of Order at Key West" or "The Wasteland"?

2008, Gary Hyland, Love of Mirrors, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 225:

A native or resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.


Jayoncé

There are power couples like Jayoncé, Russell and Kimora, Will and Jada.

2007 March, “V Mix: Searchin' For A Real Love”, in Vibe, page 139:

Throughout their six-year, PDA-shy run, Jayoncé refused to confirm (except in verse) what we all knew–the two are crazy in love.

2008 June, “V Mix: Diamond, Duets–And Denial”, in Vibe, page 53:

“Imagine how much Obama's approval rating would skyrocket if he and Michelle came out and reenacted Jayoncé's 'Drunk In Love' performance,” tweeted @jwoodham, […]

2014, Caitlin Looney, "State of the Union becomes #StateOfAwful", The Columbia Chronicle (Columbia College, Chicago), Volume 49, Issue 17, 3 February 2014, page 35

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities of Jay-Z and Beyoncé.


Meithei

A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the southeastern Himalayan state of Manipur in India.


Knaanic

From Hebrew כְּנַעַן (k'na'án, “Slavic lands”, literally “Canaan”) + -ic.


Gujar

Borrowed from Hindi गूजर (gūjar), from Sanskrit गुर्जर (gurjara).


Ijaw

The group of languages spoken by these people.


Kikai

Those over 50 use Kikai at home among themselves but can understand and use Japanese.

2000, Barbara F. Grimes, Joseph Evans Grimes, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, volume 1, SIL International, page 539

[…], including the Ryûkyûan dialects (11 dialects: Southern, Amami-Oshima Northern, Kikai, Kunigami, Miyako, Okinawan Central, Oki-no-Erabu, Toku-no-Shima, Taeyama, Yonaguni, and Yoron) […]

2003, Robert B. Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf Jr., Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 18:

[…], (iii) the Amami group (Kikai, Ōshima, Tokunoshima, Okierabu, Yoron), […]

2012, Nicolas Tranter, The Languages of Japan and Korea, Routledge, page 3:

A Ryukyuan language spoken on Kikai island.


Jet

en-proper noun

Jet (countable and uncountable, plural Jets)


Citeh

Respelling of a local pronunciation of (Manchester) city.

(soccer, informal) Manchester City Football Club


Roll

A diminutive of the male given name Roland.


Justice

Justice, the elder, was his only son and heir to the Great Place, and Nomafu was the regent's daughter.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 1995, →ISBN, page 21:

A male or female given name from English from the abstract noun justice.


East Jerusalemite

en-noun

East Jerusalemite (plural East Jerusalemites)

The Palestinians insisted on both outsiders and an East Jerusalemite on the delegation.

2005, Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace, →ISBN, page 62:


Kiliwa

The traditional language of these people.


Cocama

An indigenous language of western South America.


Ro

international auxiliary language
international auxiliary language

An a priori international auxiliary language created by Edward Powell Foster beginning in 1904.


Phuthi

A Nguni Bantu language spoken in southern Lesotho and parts of South Africa.


Anjaneyulu

A male given name from Sanskrit, used commonly in India.


Astrape

From Ancient Greek ἀστραπή (astrapḗ, literally “lightning”).


Keely

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Mohan

Transliteration of Hindi मोहन (mohan), etc.


e caudata

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ē caudāta (literally “tailed e”).

lbor

A form of the letter e modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ę⟩.

Used in Latin for a long ē that represents an etymological ⟨ae⟩ or ⟨oe⟩ diphthong, both of which diphthongs had phonologically merged into ⟨ē⟩ by the early Mediaeval period.


Sookie

A variant of the name Susan or Susannah, from Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (“Shoshána”) meaning "rose" or "lily".


Chatino

Borrowed from Spanish chatino, from a Chatino language; cf. Zacatepec Chatino chaʔ tinyan (literally “speech”).


al-CIAda

You must be one of the last remaining people on the planet that doesn't know
that Al-CIAda was a CIA creation.

2005 March 14, Tylêr - Ðûrden» ~, “Re: The USA Deserved 911 - too bad more weren't killed.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

On Friday, the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and members of
more than 30 other nations meet in Istanbul, Turkey, and announced they
have granted al-CIAda and the so-called rebels in Libya full diplomatic
recognition.

2011 July 16, Möebius Pretzel, “Clinton Announces Al-CIAda As Legitimate Government Of Libya < < < GO NWO!!!”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

Once again we see clear evidence of how the US al-CIAda front works in regard to its on/off relationship. The well planned and executed events of 9-11 meant that the ongoing relationship with al-CIAda that began in Afghanistan with the Reagan/Casey war against the USSR could now be set in the off position.

2014 September 22, Charles Knause, Loose Leaves & Palm Trees, Lulu.com, →ISBN, The US Al-CIAda Front in Syria, page 133:

(slang, derogatory) An epithet for al-Qaeda used by individuals who believe the CIA is behind the group.


USian

en-adj

USian (comparative more USian, superlative most USian)

more USian (comparative)
most USian (superlative)

Driving through the USian landscape is like walking through cobwebs in an attic. No one is dying of hunger, but no one seems to be doing anything either. The only illegal migration taking place is from the USA into Canada.

2003, Joseph Raphael, The Trial of Alois Barda: The Saga of Uncommon Man, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 6:

Before developing this idea of "counter-worlding" any further, I would also note that as a postcolonial-oriented comparativist of Canadian and Québécois literatures, I am inevitably drawn to considering such an approach vis-à-vis the United States – especially within the immediate context of greater pressures on Canada and Quebec to integrate within the USian imperial nexus in terms of national, continental, and international policies and values, […]

2007, David Leahy, “Counter-Worlding Alaméricanité”, in Winfried Siemerling, Sarah Phillips Casteel, editors, Canada & Its Americas: Transnational Navigations, McGill-Queen's University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 63:

I am a member of the Liberal Democrats, a British political party that are liberal in the British, rather than the American, sense – while for the most part the beliefs of the party as a whole (though not of every member) tend to overlap with the USian definition, […]

2011, Andrew Hickey, Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!, Lulu, →ISBN, page 55:

(informal) Of or pertaining to the United States.


USian

In Canada, it seems we are much more experienced with strategic voting than USians.

2005, Mike Carr, quoted in Mark D. Whitaker, Toward a Bioregional State: A Series of Letters about Political Theory and Formal Institutional Design in the Era of Sustainability, iUniverse (2005), page 21

The form chilli is probably closest to the Náhuatl original, and it is the preferred form among historically minded USians and in Australia.

2008, Justin Thyme, HOT! - Make Your Own Sauce!, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 12:

Or that Americans, Canadians, and Québécois are so alike as late-modernist or postmodernist peoples - our consumerist lifestyles so analogous – that cultural production from Canada or Quebec can barely be of interest to USians, that it is not exotic or troubling enough to warrant more attention.

2007, David Leahy, “Counter-Worlding Alaméricanité”, in Winfried Siemerling, Sarah Phillips Casteel, editors, Canada & Its Americas: Transnational Navigations, McGill-Queen's University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 66–67:

(informal) A citizen or resident of the United States.


Kamayurá

A Tupian language spoken by the Kamayurá people.


Bryanna

A female given name from the Celtic languages, of American usage, variant of Brianna.


Johnna

A rare feminine form of John recorded since the 18th century.

I have been raised with my three brothers, Matthew, Mark and Luke. That is the reason my name is most unusual for a girl, you see. Mama wished to continue the names in sequence, so to speak, and saw fit to call me Johnna.

1980, ? Margaret Rau, The Hoyden Bride, Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 38–39:


Barrie

en-proper noun

Barrie (countable and uncountable, plural Barries)


Ryley

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


Wawa

A Mambiloid language spoken in Cameroon.


Hays

Spelling variant of Hayes, which has multiple origins.


Komi-Permyak

A Permic language in the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, smaller of the two main regional varieties (ISO 639-3 language code: koi) of the pluricentrical Komi language, the other variety being Komi-Zyrian. It's the standard language of Komi people in Komi-Permyak Okrug.

Komi-Yazva

dialect of Komi-Permyak or a language, depending on source


Komi-Zyrian

A Uralic language, the more common of the two main regional varieties of the pluricentric Komi language, the other variety being Komi-Permyak. It's the standard language of Komi people in Komi Republic and, along with Russian, an official language in the republic.


Duff

Duff (countable and uncountable, plural Duffs)

From the Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, from dubh (“dark”).


Neo

Recent coinage from the prefix neo- (“new”). Popularized by a character in the science-fiction film The Matrix (1999), where it is explained as an anagram of "(the) One".

A male given name originating as a coinage.


Neo

An international auxiliary language created by Arturo Alfandari in 1961, combining features of Esperanto, Ido, Novial, and Volapük.


daughter out

en-verb

daughter out (third-person singular simple present daughters out, present participle daughtering out, simple past and past participle daughtered out)

daughters out (present singular third-person)
daughtering out (participle present)
daughtered out (participle past)
daughtered out (past)

To expire due to having only females surviving the death of the last male in a line. (of a surname or of heritable property in a patrilineal naming or inheritance system)


Astur

Of Celtic, possibly Celtiberian origin. The name could ultimately be related to the Phoenician goddess Astarte.

A member of a tribe in northern Spain until the first century BC.


dirtsider

He really hadn't been in space before. You can always tell a dirtsider by the twinkle in their eyes at the idea of seeing their planet from above.

1998, Jerry Oltion, Where Sea Meets Sky, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 23:

So you tell me, Senyor Parrige, how many habitats would be willing to take on their maximum possible population load in the form of half-starved, uneducated, indigent, disease-ridden dirtsiders who know nothing of habitat life and have no skills that are of much use in space?

2001, Roger MacBride Allen, The Depths of Time, Random House, →ISBN, page 378:

As a dirtsider, the idea of dying in the cold of space terrified him, though he'd never admit it to his space-loving mate.

2010, Shayla Kersten, Angel Moon, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 52:

(science fiction, often derogatory) Someone who lives on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to in space.


Philippine English

The form of the English language used in the Philippines.


Kaede

A Japanese female given name from Japanese


Hazelton

Haslingden, Lancashire
Hazleton, Gloucestershire
Hesleden, County Durham

From multiple placenames in England: Hesleden, County Durham, Haselden, Sussex, Haslingden, Lancashire, Hazeldon, Wiltshire, and Hazleton, Gloucestershire. From Old English hæsl (“hazel”) + denu (“valley”).


Kanoé

language isolate
language isolate#English

A nearly extinct language isolate spoken in Rondônia, Brazil.


Elspie

"Elspeth, or mair commonly, Elspie Murray. A very gude name, doctor. The Murrays of Perth were—"
"No doubt—no doubt, Mrs. Elsappy."
"Elspie, sir. Ye maunna ca' me out o' my name, wi' your unceevil English tongue," added the pertinacious old dame.

A diminutive of the female given name Elspeth.


Atakapa

Borrowing from Choctaw hatak apa (literally “man eater”).


Dhegihan

Of or relating to a Siouan language family that includes Kansa–Osage, Omaha–Ponca, and Quapaw.


ball-and-stick model

en-noun

ball-and-stick model (plural ball-and-stick models)

(physical chemistry) A molecular model of a chemical substance, displaying the three-dimensional position of the atoms (as spheres) and the bonds between them (as connecting rods).


Putler

Borrowed from Russian Пу́тлер (Pútler), otherwise blend of Putin + Hitler. Compare English Xitler.

(derogatory, offensive) Vladimir Putin (president of Russia).


R'lyehian

From writings of the horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft, named for the fictional city of R'lyeh, + -ian.

An artificial language created by H.P. Lovecraft.


Jenilyn

A female given name originating as a coinage: alternative form of Jennilyn


Bettie

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth


Nerissa

Coined by Shakespeare for The Merchant of Venice, apparently from Ancient Greek Νηρηΐς (Nērēḯs, “sea-nymph”).

der

Well, while I live, I’ll fear no other thing
So sore as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

When Nerissa saw the worm her immediate reaction was to kill, for she disliked its sliminess and crawlingness.

1958, The Literary Review, volume 2, page 188:


Jacintha

From Latin Hyacintha (possibly as a fanciful spelling of Spanish Jacinta), from Ancient Greek Ὑακίνθη (Huakínthē).

A rare female given name from Ancient Greek.


Hitomi

Borrowed from Japanese ひとみ (Hitomi), a given name with numerous possible original kanji.


Hosmer

At last, when nothing else would do, he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel.

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity:


West African Pidgin Portuguese

en-noun

West African Pidgin Portuguese (uncountable)

(creolistics) A hypothetical Portuguese-based pidgin spoken across the western coast of Africa between the 14ᵗʰ and 18ᵗʰ centuries, believed by some to be the proto-language of most or all modern creoles.


Maliseet

From Mi'kmaq Malesse'jik (“broken talkers”) — the Mi'kmaq perceived the Maliseet as speaking a broken version of Mi'kmaq.

Wabanaki Confederacy
Wabanaki Confederacy

A member of an Algonquian-speaking Native American people of the Wabanaki Confederacy, indigenous to the Saint John River valley and its tributaries, crossing the borders of New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada, and Maine in the United States.


Maliseet

The Algonquian language of these people, a dialect of Malecite-Passamaquoddy.


Vanimo

A Skou language spoken in Papua New Guinea.


Nao

A female or male given name from Japanese


Gwoyeu Romatzyh

/ˌɡwəʊjuː rəʊˈmɑːtsə/

Borrowed from Chinese 國語羅馬字／国语罗马字 (Guóyǔ Luómǎzì).

bor+

With regard to romanization, several different systems are concurrently being used in Taiwan, including Wade-Giles, Tongyong Pinyin 通用拼音, Hanyu Pinyin 漢語拼音, and Gwoyeu Romatzyh.

2003, Julie Ju et al., editors, A Brief Introduction to Taiwan, Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16:

A transliteration system for Mandarin Chinese, characterized by its tonal spelling without diacritic marks.


Swiss Standard German

For instance, while the Swiss German word Färnseer (television set) derives from Fernseher, Hutte (tub) and Beige (pile) are Swiss German words that are now used also in Swiss standard German.

1990, Stephen Barbour, Patrick Stevenson, Variation in German: A Critical Approach to German Sociolinguistics, page 213:

The independent position of Swiss Standard German has been strengthened by Swiss neutrality and the recent German past.

1995, Michael G. Clyne, The German Language in a Changing Europe, page 47:

The form of the German language used for publishing, broadcasting and writing in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as distinguished from the Swiss German language used in speech.


Principense

A Portuguese-based creole spoken in the island of Príncipe.


Taimyr Pidgin Russian

A Russian-based pidgin used by the Dolgans and Nganasans.


Malacca Creole Portuguese

A Portuguese-based creole spoken in Malacca and Singapore.


Majorite

(UK politics) A political supporter of John Major (born 1943), British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997.


Ersa

From Ancient Greek Ἕρσα (Hérsa, literally “Dew”).


Mungbam

A Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon.


Americaness

From American + -ness or America + -ness.

There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past.

2002, Rusty L. Monhollon, "This Is America?:" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 125:

Although cultural pride in baseball seems to stem from its Americaness, cultural pride in football seems linked to the sport's manly qualities […]

2005, Sarah K. Fields, Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America, University of Illinois Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 47:

The necessity of race to Americaness continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains central to our identity today: […]

2008, Patrick B. Mullen, The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 8:


Angolar

São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe#English

A Portuguese-based creole spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe.


Rotokas

An East Papuan language spoken in Bougainville Island.


Agawam

First cultivated by the Agawam, broadleaf tobacco was soon planted by white settlers as a cash crop after they drove the Natives off the land.

2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 86:

An Eastern Algonquian tribe, settlement, and language, native to northeastern Massachusetts (around Ipswich).

A city in Hampden County, western Massachusetts.

Former name of Westfield River in Hampden County, western Massachusetts.


Nez Perce

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Nez Perce.wav

A Native American people who live in the Pacific Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States.


Manobo

An Australasian indigenous agriculturalist people of the Philippines.


Thao

An Austronesian language spoken by the Thao people.


Trev

A diminutive of the male given name Trevor.


Bebhionn

From Irish Bébinn, seemingly from bean (“woman”) + binn (“melodious”). More at Bébinn.

(Irish mythology) A goddess of birth in Irish mythology.


Perdita

Named after the daughter of Leontes and Hermione in William Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale; from Italian perdita (“loss”).


Cressida

en-proper noun

Cressida (countable and uncountable, plural Cressidas)

Used by Geoffrey Chaucer, also by Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida (1602), from Italian Criseida (which Boccaccio mistakenly substituted for Briseida (“Briseis”)), from Ancient Greek Χρυσηΐς (Khrusēḯs), from Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”).

Of course, Cressida had looked up her name online.
Reporting to her parents, incensed: "'Cressida'―or 'Criseyde'―isn't nice at all. She's 'faithless'―that's how people thought of her in the Middle Ages .Chaucer wrote about her, and then Shakespeare. ( - - - )"
"Oh, honey, come on. We don't believe in 'fate' in the U.S. of A. in 1996―this ain't the Middle Ages."

2014, Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 38:

(countable) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Mab

"Good-bye, Mab," said Mr. Ford, stretching out his arm, and gathering her to his heart. "Good-bye, darling - you will think of the old man, eh?" Tears and kisses were Mab's only reply.

1864, Julia Kavanagh, Queen Mab, page 162:

“Consider,” Mab said, “that I have done something for her that you never could have.” “What's that, exactly?” “I have put her beyond the reach of the White Council and their Wardens,” Mab said, again […]

2012 November 27, Jim Butcher, Cold Days, Penguin, →ISBN:


Balachka

From regional Russian бала́чка (baláčka, “conversation, chat”), from the regional Russian verb бала́кать (balákatʹ, “to talk, to chat”) (compare Ukrainian Ukrainian бала́чка (baláčka), бала́кати (balákaty)).

bor

The dialects spoken by Cossacks living in Russia, heavily influenced by Ukrainian dialects but features akanye, like standard and central Russian.


Sentinelese

The language of these people, unknown but presumed to belong to one of the Andamanese language families.


Mishmi

A member of an ethnic group of Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh.


Mijikenda

Borrowed from Swahili miji kenda (“nine villages”).

The language or dialect continuum spoken by these people.


Pedi

The Northern Sotho language as spoken by these people.


Richmal

The English writer Richmal Crompton was born in 1890.


Marianan

en-adj

Marianan (comparative more Marianan, superlative most Marianan)

more Marianan (comparative)
most Marianan (superlative)

Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands

Of or relating to the Northern Mariana Islands.


Marianan

A native or inhabitant of the Northern Mariana Islands.


Ulithian

A language spoken on Ulithi and neighbouring islands.


Safana

Safana, the daughter of Hatim Tai, was among those captured.

1998, Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, When the moon split, →ISBN:

[…] less than an hour later, their cell door was flung open and an unseen hand pushed Safana back among them. Although she lurched through the door on her own feet, she was not the same […]

2004, Jean Sasson, Mayada, Daughter of Iraq, →ISBN:

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Sofana.


Ishbel

Rendering of Scottish Gaelic Isbeal, short form of Iseabail (“Isabel”).

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.


Paro

A diminutive of the female given name Parvati.


Petersburgian

a native or inhabitant of Saint Petersburg


adoratory

A room in a temple for the adoration of idols.


Margaery

Attested since at least the 1770s as a variant of Margery, from Margaret. Popularized in the modern era by the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.


Brienne

2009, Brienne J. Meyer, Adirondack Mycorrhizal and Saprobic Macromycetes

"You will call me Brienne. Not wench."

2000, George R. R. Martin, Song of Ice and Fire, Bk. 3, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 16:

(rare) A female given name, in occasional modern use.


Arya

From Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “reputable or reverend”) and its feminine form आर्या (ā́ryā).

der

Arya Nielsen, a senior clinical faculty member at our Institute, has also demonstrated this in her excellent work on surface stimulation […]

1999, Mark Seem, Acupuncture Physical Medicine, →ISBN:


Narses

From Ancient Greek Ναρσῆς (Narsês), from Middle Persian 𐭭𐭥𐭮𐭧𐭩 (Narseh) or Parthian 𐭍𐭓𐭉𐭎𐭇𐭅 (nryshw), both ultimately from Old Iranian *Naryasanga-, *Narēsanga-.

Narsai (disambiguation)
Narseh
Narses (disambiguation)
Nerses (disambiguation)


Tansy

From the name of the plant tansy at the end of the 19th century.

(I love romantic folksy English names like Tansy and Violet, Ralph likes Mitfordesque names like Pamela and Daphne)

2008, Rachel Johnson, Shire Hell, Penguin UK, →ISBN:


am I right

"Ah! So much the worse! A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live, Jacques. Am I right, Jacques?"

1859, Charles Dickens, “Book the First, Chapter V”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

Not a word out of him, he just sat there taking it all in, am I right? Look at their face and you don't know what's going on inside, am I right? Talking about racial overtones, whose insurance company does he think he's working for, am I right Dan?

"And life's short, paisan. I mean, life is short, am I right?"

I mean, you're paying for $24 billion worth of training, and I'm sure there's not a person here who could name 10, much less 150, of the separate training programs available. Am I right?

1993, Bill Clinton, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993, Government Printing Office, page 1467:

(colloquial, rhetorical question) Said by someone who has just stated what they consider to be an unassailable truth, or at least one worthy of an amen (compare can I get an 'Amen'?).


Triestine

A native or resident of the Italian city of Trieste.

Triestin

a native or resident of the Italian city of Trieste


Danvers

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French d'Anvers (“from Antwerp”).

A male given name transferred from the surname


Mohave

From a shortened form of the endonym, Mojave Hamakhaave (“beside the water”), spelled Mojave in Spanish.

A Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.


Mohave

A Yuman language spoken by Mohave people of California and Arizona.


Aria

As a 21st century English name from TV and fantasy fiction, explained as "a musical aria". Similar sounding names exist in many languages, e.g. Ariah and Arie from Hebrew, Arya from Sanskrit, and Aria, Dutch short form of Adriana.

Aria Montgomery burrowed her face in her best friend Alison DiLaurentis's lawn.

2006, Sara Shepard, chapter 1, in Pretty Little Liars, Hachette Digital, →ISBN:

Aria is not surprised to hear there is an Ardat-Yakshi on the planet. There have been reports of bodies and minds drained in ways only the Ardat-Yakshi are capable of. Aria tells you that Morinth’s last victim was a young human woman who lived in the tenements near Afterlife.

2010, Catherine Browne, “Walkthrough”, in Mass Effect 2: PRIMA Official Game Guide (Science Fiction), Roseville, CA: Prima Games, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 190, column 1:


Belter

You noticed a habit of mine once. I never make gestures. All Belters have that trait. It's because on a small mining ship you could hit something waving your arms around.

1966 February, Larry Niven, “The Warriors”, in If, volume 16, number 2 (#99 overall), page 152:

Earth and Mars have been stepping on the necks of the Belters out here for over 100 years and I didn't want to be the boot.

2015 December 22, Remembering the Cant (The Expanse), season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jim Holden (Steven Strait):

(science fiction) An inhabitant of an asteroid belt, especially that between Mars and Jupiter.


Alek

A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, variant of Alec


Quebecistan

(derogatory) Quebec, viewed as a hostile separatist region


Nihali

A language isolate spoken in west-central India.


Italkian

From Hebrew אִיטַלְקִי (italkí, “Italian”) + -ian.


Judeo-Italian

A near-extinct Jewish Romance language or family of languages based on Italian and its dialects.


Malecite-Passamaquoddy

The Algonquian language spoken by the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy peoples in New England and Canada.


Tellurian

From Latin tellūs (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”) + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from, related to, or like’ (when forming an adjective), or ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’ (when forming a noun)).

suffix

If any distant world (which may be the case) are so far ahead of us Tellurians in optical resources as to see distinctly through their telescopes all that we do on earth, what is the grandest sight to which we ever treat them?

1847, Thomas de Quincey, “Joan of Arc”, in Miscellaneous Essays:

There is a mystery in Tellus which has not been solved. I cannot reconcile the disappearance of all its water and its race of men as well, with the legend preserved in our family that, not so very long ago, Tellurians visited us, staying beneath this very roof as guests. Why did the Earth-race die out so quickly?

1930 February, Edwards Gawain [pseudonym; George Edward Pendray], “A Rescue From Jupiter”, in Science Wonder Stories, volume 1, number 9, page 787:

But it's well that that bunch of tellurians are dead! Our diamond was the cause of that much good for the earth!" Nega slowed her orbital speed, oscillated a bit, and twinkled: "Are all tellurians like those we've met in the last year?"

1935 May, Joseph William Skidmore, “A Saga of Posi and Nega”, in T[homas] O’Conor Sloane, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 10, New York, N.Y.: Teck Publishing Corporation, →OCLC, page 107:

Mr. Bridges is more interested in correct usage of planetary names, rather than in mere derivations (a more useful and less frivolous involvement than mine, you see) and, for instance, advocates what he maintains to be correctly derived words such as Venustian and Hesperian for hypothetical inhabitants of Venus in place of the incorrect Venusian or Cytherean; and Tellus and Tellurian in place of Terra and Terran. He lists astronomers and classical scholars who support his views.

1965 December, Isaac Asimov, “Water, Water, Everywhere—”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 29, number 6 (number 175 overall), page 87:


Roddy

A diminutive of the male given name Roderick or Rodger.


Earthie

"Earthgirl?" the guard repeated. "She didn't look like an Earthie."

1947 October, Frederik Pohl, “Donovan Had a Dream”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 27:

The blue men of Mica II discriminated against Earthies, considered them inferior since the Micans had conquered the Earthies a hundred years ago.

1963 May, John Jakes, “Underfollow”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 24, number 5 (#144 overall), page 66:

(science fiction, informal, often derogatory) An inhabitant of the Earth.


Ember

This conversation took place at an advertising agency between an American copywriter named Ember (E), and one of his Japanese co-workers named Nakada (N).

1993, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication:

In this section, a straightforward and attractive character named Ember, an academic colleague of Krug, is trying to distract his friend from brooding upon the death of his wife.

2014, Samuel Schuman, Nabokov's Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 48:

Brigdha had hoped that she would have a chance to speak with this red headed woman, named Ember, who now approached. She seemed to also be from somewhere else. Maybe you will help me, Ember? she wondered.

2016, Tom Watson, Ember of a New World, →ISBN, page 258:

A serene smile curved her mouth, and soft strands of her dark hair swayed around her, softening the sharp edges that had once been on her face. “She's named Ember because that's what she is,” Ashrynn said, “she's a single burning ember ...”

2016, Cressa Rose, Book 3: Night Ashes (a Night City Novel), →ISBN:


Terrestrial

From Latin terrestris, from terra (“land, earth, ground”).

It will be manifest that natural scenery must present many beautiful varieties of effect altogether unfamiliar to us terrestrials, who know of no colours in scenery except those inherent in the objects themselves which form the landscape.

1873, Richard Anthony Proctor, The Expanse of Heaven, page 235:

The other was not a Terrestrial, but a visiting Martian.

1925, Hugo Gernsback, Ralph 124C 41+, page 41:

There'd been Earthling girls; and not a few Khazaki women had been intrigued by the big Terrestrial.

1950 Fall, Poul Anderson, “Star Ship”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 8, page 74:


Earthgirl

You have given me an idea, Earthgirl, and it is one that I am afraid you will live to regret.

1939 February, Harold Kerton Wells, “Moon of Mad Atavism”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 13, number 1, page 35:

(usually science fiction) A young female inhabitant of Earth.


Terrestrian

This rocket squad was composed almost solely of Terrestrians, for they were used to the greater gravity of Earth, and could stand greater acceleration than could Venerians.

1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 516:

How would it look for the First Administrator to go limping around the galaxies explaining that he was behind schedule because his ship got wrecked on Sol III and the Terrestrians were incapable of matching his drives?

1950 November, Raymond Fisher Jones, “Tools of the Trade”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 46, number 3, page 55:


North Atlantic Terrorist Organization

A backronym of NATO, substituting the T word to affirm a negative point, implying that the organization is inherently belligerent.

Canada is a member of a megamurder club, a North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

1970 December 8, James Eayrs, “Morality and Violence: The Insane Strategy of Peace Through “Megamurder””, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, year 45, number 7, Kingston, Ont., page six:

They are the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

1999 March 29, Milutin Tamasijevic, “South Florida Serbs unite in fear, frustration, anger”, in The Miami Herald, 97th year, number 196, page 1B:

The arsonists left notes at two of the sites, one of which denounced the “North Atlantic Terrorist Organization” and asserted that “the fake Albanian refugee crisis was manufactured by the International Jewsmedia to justify the terrorizing, the bestial bombing of our Yugoslavia back into the dark ages.”

2000, Lawrence Grossman, David Singer, editors, American Jewish Year Book 2000, →ISBN, page 163:

(geopolitics, derogatory) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.


Earthperson

en-noun

Earthperson (plural Earthpersons or Earthpeople)

Earthpersons (plural)
Earthpeople (plural)

The Venusians, unlike other planetary races, were almost like Earthpeople. There was only one notable difference—they had feathers on their heads instead of hair.

1953 May, Eando Binder, “Interplanetary Tenements”, in Captain Marvel Adventures, volume 24, number 144, page (inside front cover):

And beyond that, the most important equipment of all: the manufacturing units that processed the Earthpeople's food.

1956, Philip Kindred Dick, The World Jones Made, page 198:

My last act as an earthperson, she says, was t' snatch off my landlawd's glasses and punch and punch 'im in the nose.

1974, Donald Newlove, The Drunks, page 140:

"That was an ingenious idea, Earthperson," it said slowly. "There is now a beneficent atmosphere surrounding my pressure envelope, which will enable me to repair the torn fabric and survive until Illensan assistance arrives. Thank you."

1983, James White, Sector General, page 24:

It was Tarna's first demonstration of Earthpersons—or rather Earth robots—in action, an the villagers were hugely impressed.

1986, Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth, page 81:

(usually science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Earth.


Zuricher

From Zurich + -er, or from German Züricher.

The officer in command of the Zurichers instantly marched to sustain the post.

1834, John Warner Barber, An Account of the Most Important and Interesting Religious Events:

In the eastern parts of the Confederation, where the Zurichers had traditionally exercised influence, […] there was little left after the Kappel War to show for their earlier efforts.

2002, Bruce Gordon, The Swiss Reformation, page 135:

On March 6, the two Zurichers attended the Wednesday Psychological Society meeting in Vienna.

2008, George Makari, Revolution in Mind, page 205:


St Catz

(Cambridge University slang) Contraction of St Catharine's, referring to St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

(Oxford University slang) Contraction of St Catherine's, referring to St Catherine's College, Oxford.


Bod

(Oxford University slang) The Bodleian Library.


how no

- I don't want to go out today.
- How no?


P-Celtic

Any Celtic languages (such as Brythonic or Gaulish) which show /p/ as a reflex of Proto-Indo-European *kʷ.


Rhinelander

A city, the county seat of Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States.


Arabicize

en-verb

Arabicize (third-person singular simple present Arabicizes, present participle Arabicizing, simple past and past participle Arabicized)

Arabicizes (present singular third-person)
Arabicizing (participle present)
Arabicized (participle past)
Arabicized (past)


Arthurianism

The use of Arthurian legend in literature, history, etc.

arturianismo

the use of Arthurian legend in literature


Spidey

Seven months later he reappeared in his own comic book, The Amazing Spider-Man. In the 16 years since, Spidey (as his fans call him) has become the country's most popular superhero, appearing in 300 daily newspapers.

1978, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 79, page 8:

In the closet Marvin found his sea shell collection, baseball cards, a stack of Spidey comic books, a jar of dead flies he had forgotten about, a paper bag filled with pine cones, and five cans of mud from Lake Washington.

1981 Oct, Ebony Jr., volume 9, number 4, page 25:

Only Spider-Man's spidey powers can get us out of this!

1983 Jan, Boys' Life, volume 73, number 1, page 21:

[H]e's also written a Spidey short story (“Arms and the Man” in 1997's Untold Tales of Spider-Man) and a Spidey novel (Down These Mean Streets in 2005).

2013, Gerry Conway, Leah Wilson, Webslinger: Unauthorized Essays On Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, page 32:

(slang) The fictional superhero Spider-Man.


Phaedra

Euripides
Hippolytus (play)
Jean Racine
Phaedra (Seneca)
Phaedra (mythology)
Phèdre
Seneca the Younger

From Latin Phaedra, from Ancient Greek Φαίδρᾱ (Phaídrā).
The myth has been retold several times, in plays (in classical times in Euripides's Hippolytus and Seneca the Younger's Phaedra, later in Racine's Phèdre), and more recently in other media.

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Kangiryuarmiutun

A dialect of the Inuit language spoken in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada by the Kangiryuarmiut, a Copper Inuit people.


Queen E

(Canada, informal) The Queen Elizabeth Way, the QEW.


Harmony

Following this formula, Harmony Hammond chose an exhibition of her dark, potent, meaning-layered paintings to be complemented by the work of Haleh Niazmand.

2005 April 13, “SFR PICKS; ARTS AND CULTURE; Everything worth seeing, reading, hearing, eating & thinking about in Santa Fe”, in Santa Fe Reporter:

Growing up in a family that included 12 brothers and sisters, Harmony James needed to find something that set her apart from the crowd. And boy did she succeed in that one.

2009, Ana Vlastaras, "'Raw' talent of Harmony James", Daily Examiner (Grafton, New South Wales), 19 November 2009

For someone whose only acting experience was playing a Boy George lookalike in a high school production of the musical “The Wedding Singer,” Harmony Santana is having an incredible year. Ms. Santana is making her big-screen debut in Rashaad Ernesto Green’s coming-out drama “Gun Hill Road,” which had its premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival.

2011 July 28, Erik Piepenburg, “When They Play Women, It’s Not Just an Act”, in The New York Times:

In other transfer news, Betar Jerusalem added Eran Levy, Haim Megrelashvili and Nigerian Harmony Ikande to its squad on Tuesday.

2012 January 31, Allon Sinai, “Tamuz changes mind, remains with Reds”, in The Jerusalem Post:

Indie filmmaker Harmony Korine is no stranger to the weird. He's built an outsider-cool reputation thanks to his early script for the '90s drama "Kids" and his later increasingly bizarre films "Gummo" (about trailer park Americana), […]

2012 May 3, Romeo San Vincente, “Brittany S. Pierce meets Harmony Korine”, in Between the Lines:

Michelle worked with producer Harmony Samuels on most of the songs on the album.

2013 April 22, “Williams to release new solo album”, in Belfast Telegraph:


fanqie

/fɑːnˈt͡ʃjɛ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 反切 (fǎnqiè).

(Chinese phonetics) In traditional Chinese lexicography, a method of indicating the pronunciation of a character by using two other characters, each giving part of the pronunciation.

反切

method of indicating pronunciation of a character


Galahad

From Old French Galahad, of obscure origin and meaning. Suggestions include Old Welsh, or biblical Gilead.

(Arthurian legend) Sir Galahad, son of Sir Lancelot, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table famously known for his purity and who was one of the three achievers of the quest for the Holy Grail.

(rare) A male given name from the Celtic languages in occasional use since the 19th century.

Flagstaff County
Flagstaff County#English

A hamlet in Flagstaff County, in east-central Alberta.


Tolowa

From a Yurok term: either from tolowechek' (“I speak Tolowa”), or from the Yurok name of their principal town.


Chilula

From the Yurok designation of the tribe.

A tribe whose members inhabited the area on or near lower Redwood Creek, in Northern California, and have since been incorporated into the Hupa tribe.


Hupa

From the Yurok name of the valley in which they reside (Hoopa Valley).

A member of a tribe residing in the Hoopa Valley.


Hupa

The Athabaskan language which they speak.


Septimus

Borrowed from Latin Septimus, from septimus (“seventh”).

London has swallowed up many millions of young men called Smith ; thought nothing of fantastic Christian names like Septimus with which their parents have thought to distinguish them .

1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, Collector's Library, published 2003, →ISBN, page 95:


Mattole

A group of Native Americans in California, whose traditional lands were along the Mattole and Bear Rivers near Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County.


Fomorian

Probably Old Irish fo- 'under' + mor, mur 'ocean'.

(Irish mythology) A member of the semi-divine race that were said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.


Fomorian

(Irish mythology) Of or relating to the race of semi-divine creatures said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.


Belgae

From Latin Belgae, an Iron-Age European group of tribes located between the rivers Seine and Rhine.

(historical) A group of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel and the west bank of the Rhine, from at least the 3rd century BC.


Kenyan English

The English language as written and spoken in Kenya, and among Kenyan expatriates in other countries.


Tavy

'Octavia? What the hell are you doing here?'
'Working,' said Tavy. 'I lost my job so Jago offered me another.'

2014, Sara Craven, Seduction Never Lies, page 118:

A diminutive of the female given name Octavia.


Elmyra

(rare) A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Saurashtra

Borrowed from Gujarati સૌરાષ્ટ્ર (saurāṣṭra, “Saurashtra”) or its etymon Sanskrit सौराष्ट्र (saurāṣṭra, “from Saurashtra”), vriddhi form of सुराष्ट्र (surāṣṭra, “Saurashtra”), from सु- (su-, “good”) + राष्ट्र (rāṣṭra, “realm, dominion”).

af

/saʊˈɹɑːstɹə/

/saʊˈɹɑːʃtɹə/

An Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Saurashtra people.


Saurashtra

Borrowed from Saurashtra ꢱꣃꢬꢵꢰ꣄ꢜ꣄ꢬ (saurāṣṭra), from Sanskrit सौराष्ट्र (saurāṣṭra, “from Saurashtra”).

bor+

/saʊˈɹɑːstɹə/

/saʊˈɹɑːʃtɹə/

An Indo-Aryan language spoken by these people.


Palmyrene

From Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνός (Palmurēnós).

The importance of the Palmyrenes was as merchants, and it is as merchants that they become known to us in our earliest Roman reference.

1995, Richard Stoneman, Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt Against Rome, University of Michigan Press, page 31:

For in the course of the campaign the Roman provincial capital of Bostra fell to the Palmyrenes – whether by accident or design - along with a Roman force.

2000, Warwick Ball, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 80:

There is no surviving contemporary account of the war between the Palmyrenes and the Emperor Aurelian.

2008, Pat Southern, Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen, Continuum Books, page 131:

(historical) A native or inhabitant of ancient Palmyra or Palmyrena.


Palmyrene

The first panel is a bilingual text in Greek and Palmyrene, the second entirely in Palmyrene, and the third and fourth entirely in Greek.

1989, Jean-Marie Dentzer, Winfried Orthmann, Archéologie et histoire de la Syrie, page 74:

In one such inscription, Odaenathus is referred to in Palmyrene simply as Ras Tadmor without any indicators of Roman rank.

2003, Gary K. Young, Rome's Eastern Trade, page 209:

The auxiliaries also occasionally left behind bilingual dedications in Palmyrene with Greek or Latin.

2017, Kyle H. Keimer, Gillan Davis, Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East: