Philadelphian

My grandmother was a Philadelphian, having come out from that city after the war.

1932, Amelia Earhart, chapter 1, in The Fun of It, Harcourt Brace and Company, page 4:

The promenade was filled with Philadelphians of all color and kind.

2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer, Penguin Books (2020), page 194:

A person who originates from or lives in Philadelphia.


skaith

en-noun

skaith (countable and uncountable, plural skaiths)

[…] the Commissioners of Burghs... meet yearly at Inverkeithing “to treat of the welfare of merchandize, the good rule and statutes for the common profit of burghs, and to provide for remeid upon the skaith and injuries sustained within the burghs.”

1878, William Charles Smith, "Borough" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 64

There never yet was Englishman
That came to skaith by me.

1904, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, The Bon Gaultier Ballads:

(Scots law, obsolete) Alternative form of scathe (“damage”)


Rollo

en-proper noun

Rollo (countable and uncountable, plural Rollos)

Latinization of the Old French equivalent of the English Rolf.

There was always a conflict in Rollo Martins ― between the absurd Christian name and the sturdy Dutch (four generations back) surname.

1950, Graham Greene, The Third Man, Heinemann, published 1964, page 15:

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


SLD

Scottish Liberal Democrats
w:Scottish Liberal Democrats

(UK politics) Initialism of Scottish Liberal Democrats.

Social and Liberal Democrats
w:Social and Liberal Democrats

(UK politics) Initialism of Social and Liberal Democrats the former name of the Liberal Democrats.


Corrine

A female given name from Ancient Greek. Variant of Corinne.


Crusoe

Perhaps from French Crusiaux, a topographic surname from a diminutive of creux (“hollow”), or alternatively a variant of Croiseau, a habitational surname.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Cormack

From the Old Irish given name Cormac.
The town in Newfoundland is named after explorer and entrepreneur William Epps Cormack (1796 - 1868).


Creighton

Creighton (countable and uncountable, plural Creightons)


Segovian

en-adj

Segovian (comparative more Segovian, superlative most Segovian)

more Segovian (comparative)
most Segovian (superlative)


Columbian

United States of America
United States of America

(dated or poetic) American, from the United States of America


Columbian

en-noun

Columbian (countable and uncountable, plural Columbians)

(dated or poetic) An American, a person from the United States of America.


Pamplonan

en-adj

Pamplonan (comparative more Pamplonan, superlative most Pamplonan)

more Pamplonan (comparative)
most Pamplonan (superlative)


Cullen

en-proper noun

Cullen (countable and uncountable, plural Cullens)


Bond

Bond (countable and uncountable, plural Bonds)

An occupational surname, from bond ("peasant," "farmer").


Azeri Turkic

Yet, classifying these varieties, which are spoken in the sphere of influence of the two major Oghuz languages, Azeri Turkic and Ottoman or Modern Standard Turkish, is difficult

2006, Christiane Bulut, "Syntactic traces of Turkic-Iranian contiguity: An areal survey of language contact-induced shift in patterns of relativization", Turkic-Iranian contact areas: Historical and linguistic aspects (Turcologica 62), page 187


Cleggmania

Before the debate the Daily Telegraph, a Conservative-leaning newspaper, had tried to prick the Cleggmania bubble by running a story alleging that Clegg had received payments from party donors directly into his private bank account.

2010, John Bartle, Nicholas Allen, Britain at the Polls 2010, page 192:

Cleggmania briefly hit Orpington but we need to call our voters and tell them to stick to the blue corner[…]

2011, Rachel Johnson, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor:

(UK politics, informal) Enthusiasm for British Liberal Democrat politician Nick Clegg.


Nootka

From Nootka nuučaan̓uł (“all along the mountains”).


Eburones

A Belgic people of Germanic or Celtic descent who lived in the upper north of Gaul in ancient times.


Emmitt

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


Schleswiger

From Schleswig + -er, or directly from the German Schleswiger.

There I met another German, or rather a Schleswiger, by the name of Bondiz, who was also a merchant.

1979 (reprint), Elise Amalie Tvede Wærenskjold, The Lady with the Pen, page 79


decree arbitral

en-noun

decree arbitral (plural decrees arbitral)

(Scots law) An award made by an arbiter.


Emmett

A male or unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Tamahaq

The only known Northern Tuareg language, spoken in Algeria, western Libya, and northern Niger.


West Slavic

A subgrouping of the Slavic language family spoken mainly in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lusatia (a small area in Germany).


Athelstan

An Anglo-Saxon male given name derived from Old English æþele (“noble”) and stān (“stone”), meaning "Gem". Old English variants are Æþelstān and Æðelstān. In modern English it is also found as Æthelstan, Athelstane, Addleston, Athelston, Athelstone and Ethelstone, usually surnames or place names. It is akin to the Dutch noun edelsteen and German noun and surname Edelstein and the Icelandic male given name Aðalsteinn.


Scanian

The dialect of Swedish spoken in the region of Scania.


Ma

A language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Layton

en-proper noun

Layton (countable and uncountable, plural Laytons)

* (perseonal names): Derived from various place names in England.


Proto-Kartvelian

The reconstructed ancestor of the Kartvelian languages.


Kimball

Kimball (countable and uncountable, plural Kimballs)

From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.

The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.

1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 1, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:

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


Morgana

(Arthurian legend) Morgaine (Morgan le Fay)


Clœlius

(chiefly history) A male given name from Latin.


Zacchaeus

From Late Latin Zacchaeus, from Ancient Greek Ζακχαῖος (Zakkhaîos), from Hebrew זכי (zakkay), literally "pure, innocent", which came from זכה (zacha, “be clean, pure”).

And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 19:8:


Kamboji

The language of ancient Kamboja, or the script in which it was written.


Vick

A diminutive of the male given name Victor


Icelandish

From Middle English *Islandish, *Islondisch, equivalent to Iceland + -ish. Compare Dutch IJslands, German Isländisch, Danish islandsk, Icelandic íslenskur.

Some geographical manuscripts written in the Icelandish language in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, and based in part on the statement of the Abbot Nicholas of Thingeyre, who died in 1159 A.d., according to Storm, Werlauff, and Rafn, also bear early witness to the discovery of Vinland by Leif Ericson, to Leif's Christianizing Greenland, and to the establishment of an episcopal see in Gardar.

1903, United States Catholic Historical Society, Historical Records and Studies:

A short time ago open war broke out between the two elements over the new translation of the Bible into the Icelandish language, which had been prepared by Haraldus Nielsson, a teacher in the Theological Seminary at Reykjavik, [...]

(rare, dated [unless linguistic use]) Icelandic (North Germanic language, national tongue of Iceland).


Mila

From a diminutive in many Slavic languages (Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian, etc.) of female given names containing the element Mil-, -mila ("grace, beloved"), such as Ludmila, Milena, Milica, and of the cognates of Emily. Also from Spanish Mila.

At the end of the evening―and remember it was a sad occasion―Auntie Fanny says, 'Shoiley, do me a favour, ask Myla'―she never called her Mila―'for the recipe.'

1992, Sally Armstrong, Mila, Macmillan Canada, →ISBN, page 59:

My name is Mila. Mila is the name others gave me. The ones who found me. Mila is miracle.

1996, Karen Hesse, The Music of Dolphins, Scholastic Inc., published 1998, →ISBN, page 52:

And she persisted in calling me Mila after I had decreed that people should now use my full name: Sharmila.

2003, Dina Mehta, Mila in Love, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 4:

A female given name from the Slavic languages.


Kalo Finnish Romani

The first part is derived from Kalo Finnish Romani kaalengo tšimb, the language's endonym.

A variant of Romani language spoken by the Finnish Roma.


Saz

A nickname of the given name Sarah or Sally.


Temperance

From temperance. A virtue name first used by Puritans in the 16th century.


Bet

A diminutive of the female name Elizabeth.


Zenobia

From Latin Zenobia, from Ancient Greek Ζηνοβία (Zēnobía), name of a third century Queen of Palmyra. Ostensibly from Ζήνων (Zḗnōn), an ancient derivative of Ζεύς (Zeús), but also suggested to be a rendering of the Arabic زَيْنَب (zaynab, “Zaynab”). First recorded as an English given name in Cornwall in 1586.

"I shall always think," said Zenobia, "that Lord Liverpool went much too far, though I never said so in his time; for I always uphold my friends."

This Zenobia ("Nobby") Hopwood was old Worplesdon's ward, as I believe it is called. A pal of his, just before he stopped ticking over some years previously, had left him in charge of his daughter.

1946, P. G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning, Overlook Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 12:


Maybel

It's an awkward name: Isamay, pronounced Is-a-may. Isa is my paternal grandmother's name (shortened from Isabel) and May my maternal grandmother's (it comes, somehow, from Margaret). The amalgamation is, as you see, strictly alphabetical. Life, I feel, would have been much easier if they had chosen Maybel.

2010, Margaret Forster, Isa & May, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 5:


Isa

Even "Liz" brought little to his memory; though he said: "The name does recall the fact of a sister. But why call her Isa?" "Just as easy as Liz, or any of the lot, Eliza, Elizabeth, Betsy and Bess. Isa, that's, I think, a sort of a city name," Lee said, with a shadow of a smile.

1885, Arthur's Home Magazine, volume 53, page 165:

A diminutive of the female given name Isabel or of its variant forms, sometimes also used as a formal given name.


Isa

Transliteration of Arabic عِيسَى (ʕīsā) or anglicized from Turkish İsa, both equivalents of Jesus as a given name.

A male given name from Arabic mainly used by Muslims.


Jacquie

A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline and of its variant spellings.


Zemfira

Transliteration of Russian Земфи́ра (Zemfíra), name of the heroine in Pushkin's poem Цыга́ны (Cygány, “The Gypsies (1827)”). Possibly of Romani origin.

transliteration

Земфи́ра Земфира#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Земфи́ра (Zemfíra).


Ramsay

"Ramsay!" Adrian repeated to himself. He sighed again―or no, this time he was laughing. "I bet you live in Roland Park," he told Delia. "Well, yes, I do." "I knew it! Everybody in Roland Park has a last name for a first name." "So?" she said, stung. "What's wrong with that?"

1995, Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years, Knopf, →ISBN, pages 10–11:

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Tecumseh

Elizabeth first met a presentable young lieutenant stationed at Fort Moultrie by the name of William Tecumseh Sherman. - - - My poor brother Tee, who grew up mortified by his given name, Tecumseh, was christened in honor of the soldier, not the great chieftain.

1995, Pat Conroy, Beach Music, Bantam Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 271:


Adie

"My only worth will be in always remembering to do the thing that pleases you; and yet, although I don't really like Adie, it has a more home-like, more whisperable sound than Adrian. Adrian is a grand, heroic sort of a name, yet what a beautiful name it is.

1874, Bertha de Jongh, The Sisters Lawless, by the author of Rosa Noel, page 245:

A diminutive of the male given names Adam, Adrian, or Aidan, from Hebrew, Latin, or Irish

"I'd like if you call me Adie. It is short for Adele."

2010, Mary Carnaghan, Adie, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 33:

A diminutive of the female given names Adele, Adriana, or Adrienne, from the Germanic languages, Latin, or French

The journalist Kate Adie was born in 1945.

A surname transferred from the given name derived from Adam.


nom de Web

Friedberg — whose nom de Web is StinkE — is an 18-year-old, hip hop-loving Hiero fan who started his site in August, 1995 as a tribute to his favorite crew.

1996, Vibe, volume 4, numbers 7-10, page 378:

On the same day, Barista of Bloomfield Avenue, the nom de Web of Debbie Galant, who lives in a suburban town in New Jersey and is one of the most esteemed "hyperlocal bloggers" in the country, led with a picture from her recent vacation in the Berkshires.

2006, The New Yorker, volume 82, numbers 20-28, page 48:

We are smitten with Nemo Wolfe. That's the charming nom de Web of Mercantile Library executive director Albert Pyle (our own Dr. Know) when he posts on their delightfully omnivorous blog.

2009 December, Cincinnati Magazine, page 93:

(informal) A pseudonym used when publishing on the World Wide Web.


Clemmy

A diminutive of the female given name Clementine.


Vyacheslav

Transliteration of Russian Вячесла́в (Vjačesláv). Cognate with English Wenceslaus.

Вячесла́в Вячеслав#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вячесла́в (Vjačesláv).


Hyderabadi

A native or resident of Hyderabad, India.


PEP

Coordinate term: PSI

Come a survey like last week’s PEP report on the extent of race prejudice, and another such wave looks like jogging the Government into introducing legislation dealing with housing and employment.

1967, “Researchers find widespread discrimination and prejudice against immigrants to Britain”, in The Observer:

Political and Economic Planning
w:Political and Economic Planning

(UK politics, historical) Initialism of Political and Economic Planning, a British policy think tank.


Talitha

From Aramaic טליתא (ṭalyəṯāʾ, “female child, girl, maiden”). From a passage in the New Testament (Gospel of Mark) in which Jesus restores to life a little girl.

der

Talitha Bateman

Talitha Getty

Talitha Washington

A female given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.


Cephas

Borrowed from Latin Cephas, from Ancient Greek Κηφᾶς (Kēphâs), from Aramaic כֵּיפָא/Classical Syriac ܟܐܦܐ (kēp̄ā, “stone, rock”).

Aramaic כֵּיפָא

A male given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.


Tammi

A female given name, a spelling variant of Tammy.


Keara

A female given name from Irish, variant of Keira.


Late Egyptian

The Egyptian language as spoken from 1069 to 700 BCE

Earlier Egyptian

Middle Egyptian [Late Middle Egyptian, Neo-Middle Egyptian]


Proto-Inupik

A hypothetical prehistoric ancestor of all Inuit languages, including Greenlandic, Inuktitut and Inupiak.

The category of Proto-Inuit on Wiktionary


Wake Islander

On the other side of the coin is the story of a fluttery lady visitor who glanced at a flag over the air terminal. ‘My goodness!”’ she said. “Isn’t that wonderful—to see flying up there the same tattered flag that the marines refused to surrender to the Japanese?”’
The Wake Islander beside her just smiled. He didn’t trouble to explain that the marines did surrender, flags and all, or that the terminal colors are tattered because the wind blows a lot. This was near the end of the month, almost time for the new flag which goes up every thirty days.

1956 January 28, William L. Worden, “Exiles on a Pinpoint”, in The Saturday Evening Post, page 84:

On January 20, the Nitta Maru departed Yokohama and headed toward the Japanese-controlled Chinese port at Shanghai. During the voyage, the Japanese committed an atrocity that no Wake Islander learned about until later.

2003, John Wukovits, Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island, New American Library, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 207:


Dulcie

From Latin dulcis (“sweet”) in the 19th century, probably inspired by earlier names like Dowsabel and Spanish Dulcinea.

Three green bonnets at church one day / Dulcie and Daisy and Dorothy May / Three green bonnets that nod in a row/ Each bonnet tied with a green ribbon bow.

1904 Al Harris - Guy d'Hardelot, Three Green Bonnets (a song)

"Probably most people hate the name they've got," she said. "Take Dulcie."
"It's not bad," he said slowly. "It's sort of exotic."
That was a word he had decided to adopt.
"No, it isn't. It's awful, really. It means 'sweet'. And Dulcie's a plump girl with fair hair and blue eyes. A complexion."

1966, Patrick White, The Solid Mandala, Avon Books, published 1975, →ISBN, page 88:


skeletal formula

en-noun

skeletal formula (plural skeletal formulas or skeletal formulae)

skeletal formulas (plural)
skeletal formulae (plural)

(chemistry) A structural formula which is reduced (i.e., skeletal) in the sense that carbon atoms forming the backbone of the structure (esp. of an organic compound) are not labeled — they are shown simply as vertices — and hydrogen atoms are not shown at all (except those which are bonded to heteroatoms, or the exceptionally labeled carbon atoms) but heteroatoms are always labeled. (Labels of labeled hydrogen atoms are written next to labels of the atoms that they are bonded to, without a bond drawn between them. If there are several labeled hydrogen atoms bonded to the same atom then they are written as an H with a subscript for their number.) Carbon atoms which are (optionally) labeled tend to be in reactive extremities of the molecule, not the backbone of it.


Kekulé formula

Kekulé formula (plural Kekulé formulas or Kekulé formulae)

Kekulé formulas (plural)
Kekulé formulae (plural)

After Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896).

(organic chemistry) A skeletal formula, especially a schematic representation of benzene as a hexagon made up of alternating single and double lines that represent alternating single and double bonds


decreet

(Scots law) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.


Tibbie

Her brothers call Mary Poor Mary, and indeed the meagreness and timidity of many of the women in their family has caused that word to be attached to the names they were given at their christening ― names that were themselves altered into something less substantial and graceful. Isabel became Poor Tibbie, Margaret, Poor Maggie, Jane, Poor Jennie.

2006, Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 36:

A diminutive of the female given name Isabel.


does the Pope shit in the woods

en-au-does the Pope shit in the woods.ogg

A combination of the two rhetorical questions is the Pope Catholic? and does a bear shit in the woods?

"You still interested in a writing job?" he asked. […] Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods? Or, as one of the guys had said a few weeks before, Does the Pope shit in the woods? A writing job. “Yeah,” was all she could say.

2009, Iris Rainer Dart, Til the Real Thing Comes Along, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:

"I asked her if she would like a coffee. She turned round, smiled and said: 'Does the Pope shit in the woods?' The wife was aghast. Of course I got the blame!”

2009, James R. Vance, Killer Butterfly, The eBook Sale, page 233

"[…] do you understand that last point about combining two jokes together?" […] I almost replied 'Does a bear shit in the woods?' but then I […] saw the chance to answer in a way that would show I understood them perfectly. "Does the pope shit in the woods?" There was a huge round of applause from the invisible audience, in fact it wasn't just a round of applause, ...

2014, John Byrne, "Rapt In an Enigma" - "A True-life Tale of the Paranormal Unlike Any You Have Read Before", Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

Rhetorical question
rhetorical question#English

(idiomatic, humorous, vulgar) Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.


do bears shit in the woods

does a bear shit in the woods
does a bear shit in the woods#English

(colloquial, rhetorical question, mildly vulgar) Alternative form of does a bear shit in the woods


Ak

A Sepik language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.


Northern Irishman

Northern Irishman (plural Northern Irishmen)

The rejigged visiting defence was quickly under pressure, Dean Shiels played a neat one-two with Zdenek Kroca and only a brave Peter Enckelman save at the feet of the Northern Irishman prevented an opening goal.

2011 October 1, Clive Lindsay, “Kilmarnock 1 - 2 St Johnstone”, in BBC Sport:


Hamza

From Arabic حَمْزَة (ḥamza, literally “lion”), from the Arabic root ح م ز (ḥ-m-z).

bor

The Muslim Sahabi Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib.


Tay

en-proper noun

Tay (countable and uncountable, plural Tays)

A diminutive of the unisex given name Taylor.


Haidée

Coined by Byron for his poem Don Juan (1824).

He had an only daughter, call'd Haidée, / The greatest heiress of the Eastern Isles; / Besides, so very beautiful was she, / Her dowry was as nothing to her smiles:

1824 Lord Byron, Don Juan/Canto the Second:CXXVIII

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Lucretius

From Latin Lucretius, name of a patrician and plebeian Roman gens, possibly from lucrum (“profit”).

A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.


Erdoğan

Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Erdoğan.


Samo

A language spoken in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.


Esti

A diminutive of the female given name Esther


Sera

From Hebrew שָׂרָה (sará, “lady, princess”), which was originally converted from the given name שָׂרָי (saráy, “Sarai”).

A female given name from Hebrew, of occasional usage.


Sams

A diminutive of the female given name Samantha, variant of Sam.

A diminutive of the male given name Samuel, variant of Sam.


Ems

From the clipping of Emma or Emily + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

A diminutive of the female given names Emma or Emily.


Faliscan

The language of these people, related to Latin.


Cimbrian

(uncountable) The Bavarian Germanic language of these people, which is a variety of German.


Kenan

* Borrowed from Hebrew קֵינָן (qēnå̄n).
* Alternatively, possibly a variant of Keenan, from Irish Cianán, a diminutive of Cian.

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Kilivila

An Austronesian language spoken in the Trobriand Islands.


Sian

An anglicization of Welsh Siân, ultimately from Latin Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets.
Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.

doublet

A female given name from Welsh [in turn from Hebrew].


Timur

From Turkish Timur and other languages, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *temür (“iron”).


Clelia

Clelia: the name, at first hearing, was so uncannily like Clara that Clara dispensed with the notion that she might have misheard the initial consonant, and that the girl might be supposed to be called Dahlia.

1967, Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem the Golden, Popular Library, published 1979, →ISBN, page 16:


New Zealand English

The form of the English language used in New Zealand.


Slovincian

Alexander Hilferding
Slovincian language
Slovincians

From Kashubian Słowińc (“Slovincian”, person) + -ian. The ultimate origin is uncertain; the name is often said to be coined by Alexander Hilferding, but it actually predates his research, being found in (17th century) German slowinzisch, related to wendisch and often mistaken with Latin vandalicus.

der

The extinct language of the Slovincians.

سْلُوفِينْسِيَّة

extinct language of the Slovincian people


Hixkaryana

/ˌhɪʃkæˈɹjɑːnə/


Dottie

She smells like expensive soap and her teeth are shiny-white. She does not in any way look like her name. It's not her fault that she was born in a time when people believed in names like Wanda, Dottie and Betty. She's more of a Vanessa or Paulina.

1991, Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Simon & Schuster, published 1999, →ISBN, page 60:

A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, also spelled Dotty, and sometimes also used as a formal given name.


great house

A large, luxurious house or mansion, with a sizeable indoor and outdoor staff; especially of properties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United Kingdom and United States.


Sayan

Transliteration of Bengali সায়ন (śaẏon).


Nerys

From Welsh, probably derived from Old Welsh Generys (literally “white lady”).


Yola

An extinct West Germanic language formerly spoken in Wexford, Ireland.


Phillida

While he dressed he sang an ancient ballad, at the top of his voice, to an air he improvised.
Phillida was a fair maid / As fresh as any flower; / Whom Harpalus the herd-man praide / To be his paramoure. / Harpalus and eke Corin, / Were herd-men both ysere; / And Phillida would twist and spinne, / And thereto sing ful clere.
"Phyllis!" cried John. "Can you hear in the bedroom? I sing of thee!" "I thought her name was Phillida," said Phyllis, setting the bedroom door ajar. "Phillida is Old English for Phyllis," he explained.

1914 Munson Aldrich Havens, Old Valentines, Chapter X


Phillipa

"Well, you know when a father's name is Paul and they name the baby girl, Paulette?" "Or Paula." "That's right. Or his name is Philip and they name her Phyllis?" "Or Phillipa. Don't forget Phillipa. I love the name Phillipa."

2002, Patricia McCune Irvine, A Tinkling Cymbal, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 183:


West German

Person who comes from or lives in West Germany.

vesttysker

person who comes from or lives in West Germany


Tobit

From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).

I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Tobit 1:3:


Taryn

A 20th-century coinage, apparently from Tara combined with names like Karen. In the case of the American actress Taryn Power, derived from her father's given name Tyrone.

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Kolarian

Neo-Indian has retained a few prepositions. Dravidian and Kolarian have none.

1969, Demetrius Charles Boulger, Asian Review, page 504:

Kol, Munda, and the dialects classed as "other Kolarian " are recorded almost solely from Sambalpur and the Uria States.

3,000,000, held aloof from outside influences, retained their tribal usages and primitive religion, and may now be distinguished by their Kolarian speech.

1909, L. Krishna Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur), The Cochin tribes and castes, page xxviii:

The language or language family spoken by the Kolarian people.


Angelino

What native Angelino would willingly subject themselves to a fifty-minute commute?

2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 217:


Batu

A Mongolian male given name, notably borne by Batu Khan, a Mongol ruler.


Banba

(Irish mythology) A patron goddess of Ireland.


Nobby

Nobby Stiles
Norbert is a moniker one normally doesn't associate with one of the game's most intimidating midfielders, but "Nobby" provided the steel for the England side that prevailed in the 1966 World Cup, and his gap-toothed visage would have earned him a guest spot in the movie Halloween.

2009, Jeff Carlisle, Soccer's Most Wanted II, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 234:

A diminutive of the male given name Norbert.

There's Nobby, now―here he indicates Zenobia with his pipe―"as has 'ad a whole cartload o' troubles, besides me a riding on the shafts, an' that's bad enough, an't it, Nobby?"

1855, Watts Phillips, The Wild Tribes of London, page 49:

A diminutive of the female given name Zenobia.


Konda

A South Bird's Head language, the westernmost mainland Trans-New Guinea language.


Konda

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

A Mansi language, also known as the Eastern Mansi, (was) spoken in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in Russia

A river in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in Russia


Konda

Various origins:
* Topographic surname borrowed from Telugu కొండ (koṇḍa, “hill, hillock”).
* Borrowed from Japanese 近田 (Konda).
* Borrowed from Slovene Konda, a diminutive of the personal name Konrad.


Waldo

English surname, from the obsolete English given name Waltheof, from Old English weald (“power”) + þēof (“thief”), as in "one who snatched victory from battle." Comparable to, or ultimately Anglicized from, the Old Norse equivalent Valthiófr, from vald + *ᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (*þeubaʀ). Compare Walthall, Waldie.

He was our first baby, born September 4, 1939, our only boy. Named Waldo after a kind of bakin powder I liked. 'Waldo's Cream Powder.'

2002, Annie Proulx, That Old Ace in the Hole, →ISBN, page 217:

A male given name from Old English, in modern American use transferred back from the surname.


Ubangian

From Ubangi + -an, after the Ubangi River.

Central African Republic
Central African Republic

Of or pertaining to a language family centred on the Central African Republic, including Sango.


moonling

From moon + -ling. Compare moon-related origins of lunacy and lunatic.

The sky was not quite as blue as her—Thunderation, he was no moonling!

2011, Barbara Metzger, A Suspicious Affair:

Remaining there long enough to hear Those words that moonling longs to hear...I love you

2013, Zara Borthwick, Nicholas Arnold, Wonderful, page 55:

Here he was, reputed to be a rake among rakes, but he discovered, where Thea was concerned, he was as vulnerable and uncertain as the greenest moonling in love for the first time.

2017, Shirlee Busbee, Swear by Moonlight:

(archaic or poetic) One who is lovesick; one who moons over a beloved.

"I see. He's a black man. But Jacob Millhaven is not black. Eldridge was left on his doorstep as a baby, and the philosopher adopted him." "Oh! Then he's a moonling! He doesn't seem to suffer from any stigma."

2011, M. P. Rogers, Oona Paraselene, page 140:

A shy moonling hangs on the suit of an astronaut and is taken back to earth.

1981, Ruth Beall Heinig, Lyda Stillwell, Creative Drama for the Classroom Teacher, page 248:

For a given walking speed, will an earthling astronaut or a moonling do less, equal, or more work when taking a stroll on the Moon, and by what factor?

2010, Michael M. Domach, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, page 204:

This, together with the 'balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspaper' in which the dwarf/moonling descends at the tale's opening, points to some self-referential satire on behalf of Poe, a newspaperman himself.

2016, Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction, page 142:

(science fiction) Someone from the Moon.


Kawésqar

[A]lso in the Kawesqar or Alacaluf language of southern Chile.

2008, Willem Adelaar, “Towards a typological profile of the Andean languages”, in Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics,, volume 33, page 27:

An Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Alacaluf people


Yuchi

The language isolate spoken by this tribe.


Vinny

A diminutive of the male given name Vincent.

A diminutive of the female given name Lavinia.


Wrighty

Nickname of Steve Wright (1954–2024), English radio broadcaster.


Helvetic

en-adj

Helvetic (comparative more Helvetic, superlative most Helvetic)

more Helvetic (comparative)
most Helvetic (superlative)

From Latin helveticus, from Helvetii (“the Helvetii”).

the Helvetic confederacy

Helvetic states

Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitants of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions.


Etrurian

A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.


Appian

A Roman male given name from Latin, notably borne by Appian of Alexandria (c. 95 – c. 165), a Roman historian of Greek descent


Neill

Variant spelling of Neil, anglicised form of Goidelic/Irish Niall.

A male given name from Irish, variant of Neil.


Goodwin

From Old English gōd (“good”) + wine (“friend”).

A medieval male given name from Old English, rare today.


Howell

en-proper noun

Howell (countable and uncountable, plural Howells)

From Welsh Hywel. Doublet of Huell and Powell.

(countable) A male given name from Welsh.


Berbice Creole Dutch

An extinct creole language formerly spoken in Guyana.


Kendrick

From Middle English Cenric, Kendrich, of several origins:
* From Old English Cyneric, from cyne- (“royal”) + ric (“power”),
* Borrowed from Middle Welsh Cynwrig (“greatest champion”), from cynt (“before, first”) + gwr (“man”) + -ig
* Borrowed from Irish Mac Ionnrachtaigh via Enright, in which case also a doublet of Hanratty

bor

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Goguryeo

/ɡəʊˈɡʊəjəʊ/

/ɡoʊˈɡʊəɹjoʊ/

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

(historical) The language spoken in the Goguryeo kingdom.


Havanese

A native or inhabitant of Havana in Cuba.


Klamath

census-designated place
census-designated place

Del Norte County
Del Norte County#English

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


Pictish

en-adj

Pictish (comparative more Pictish, superlative most Pictish)

more Pictish (comparative)
most Pictish (superlative)

The Gothic monarch and the Pictish peer


Pictish

The extinct, poorly attested language spoken by the Picts.


Biscayan

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


reptiloid

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

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

(science fiction) A reptilian humanoid creature.


Karan

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


dje

Cyrillic script
Appendix:Cyrillic script#English

The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ђ / ђ.


onerosity

From onerous + -ity, from Latin onerositas.

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

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

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


Yooper

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


Oneida

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

der

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


Narragansett

en-noun

Narragansett (plural Narragansetts or Narragansett)

Narragansetts (plural)
Narragansett (plural)

/ˌnɛrəˈɡænsət/

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


Zac

A diminutive of the male given names Zachariah or Zachary


Onondaga

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

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


Onondaga

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

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


Mothman

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


Amyas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Ceylonese

en-adj

Ceylonese (comparative more Ceylonese, superlative most Ceylonese)

more Ceylonese (comparative)
most Ceylonese (superlative)


Tibby

A diminutive of the female given name Isabel


Berry

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

Beresford Conway. All my pals call me Berry.

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

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

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

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.


Berry

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

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

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

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

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

(rare) A female given name from English.


Petre

From a medieval spelling variant of Peter.

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


Tuscarora

Frederick County
Frederick County#English

An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland.

An unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada.

Schuylkill County
Schuylkill County#English

A census-designated place in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.


Alanis

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

A female given name from the Celtic languages.


Alemanni

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

der

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

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

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

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

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


Huw

A male given name from Welsh, equivalent to English Hugh


Hero

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

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


Volsci

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

Volsques

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


Porscha

Probably from the luxury car brand Porsche.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Wilkie

en-proper noun

Wilkie (countable and uncountable, plural Wilkies)

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

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


Wilsonian

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


Clancy

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


Radhi

bor

Arabic رَاضِي (rāḍī)


Peelite

From Peel + -ite, after Sir Robert Peel.

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


starman

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


Suky

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


Borôro

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


Angor

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


Morori

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


Dobby

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


Hob

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

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


Dobie

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert.


Vedda

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


Zou

The Kukish language spoken by the Zou people.


surnominal

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


Slavonian

en-adj

Slavonian (comparative more Slavonian, superlative most Slavonian)

more Slavonian (comparative)
most Slavonian (superlative)

Of or relating to the Slavs or their language.


Turcoman

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


Montagnais

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

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


Innu

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


Townsend

en-proper noun

Townsend (countable and uncountable, plural Townsends)

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


Yprois

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Bororo

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


Heartbreak Kid

Nickname for professional wrestler Shawn Michaels.


El Tel

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


Giggsy

A nickname for the footballer Ryan Giggs.


Le God

(informal) A nickname for Matthew Le Tissier.


Scholesy

A nickname of the English footballer Paul Scholes.


Becks

A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca


Parry

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


Crouchy

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

2004, Andrew Klavan, Dynamite Road, page 175:

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

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

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

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

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

2011, Christopher J. Holcroft, Finding Thomas:

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

A nickname for somebody with the surname Crouch.


Daffy

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

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

A diminutive of the female given name Daphne

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

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

A diminutive of the female given name Daffodil


episemon

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


Addy

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

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

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

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

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

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


Victour

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


Hectour

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek


Aquitanian

The extinct Vasconic language of Aquitania. See Wikipedia


EBE

Initialism of extraterrestrial biological entity.


Jamaican Creole

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


Thuringian

/θəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.ən/

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

Thüringer

a member of an ancient Germanic tribe inhabiting central Germany


Manny

A diminutive of the male given name Emmanuel.

A diminutive of the male given name Manfred.


decern

en-verb

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

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

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

der

(transitive, Scots law) Decree by judicial sentence.

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

Decree by judicial sentence that something be done.

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

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

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

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

transferred sense
transferred sense#English

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


Rhemish

en-adj

Rhemish (comparative more Rhemish, superlative most Rhemish)

more Rhemish (comparative)
most Rhemish (superlative)


Eftychia

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

der

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


Euthemia

/ɛfˈθiːmɪ.ə/

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

affix

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


who am I kidding

The alternative to that is of course the chilling thought of Lucifer. I don't like the idea of that so much. Who am I kidding though? I kill people! People, who do horrible things, but people none the less.

(rhetorical question) Said by someone who, upon the realization that they were kidding themselves, wishes to start thinking in a more sensible, reasonable way.


Thom

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


Nuxálk

from Bella Coola nuχalk (“Bella Coola Valley”)

uder

xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓

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


Utahan

en-adj

Utahan (comparative more Utahan, superlative most Utahan)

more Utahan (comparative)
most Utahan (superlative)


Pennsylvania German

en-noun

Pennsylvania German (countable and uncountable, plural Pennsylvania Germans)

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


Chipewyan

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

bor

The Northern Athabascan language spoken by this tribe.


Sofana

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


Eastern Abenaki

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


Western Abenaki

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


Penobscot

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


Bungi

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

cog

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


Teague

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


Caz

A diminutive of the female given name Carol


Proto-Austronesian

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


Ros

A diminutive of the female given name Rosalind.

A diminutive of the female given name Rosamund.


Old Javanese

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


Kawi

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

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

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


ancient astronaut

en-noun

ancient astronaut (plural ancient astronauts)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ancien astronaute

extraterrestrial associated with paleocontact


Lawanda

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


Te Deum

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

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

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

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


Ayapaneco

A near-extinct Mixe-Zoque language of Mexico.


Lardil

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


Mabire

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


Tehuelche

From Mapudungun, meaning "fierce people".

A nearly extinct Chonan language spoken in Patagonia.


Pintupi

Western Desert language
Western Desert language

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


Yolngu

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

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


disgradation

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


rerefief

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

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

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

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


Xav

A diminutive of the male given name Xavier.


Cayuga

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

bor

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


Cayuga

The Northern Iroquoian language of the Cayuga people.

Haldimand County
Haldimand County#English

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


UFO religion

Raelians follow a UFO religion.

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

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

UFO religions are even stranger than science fiction.

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

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

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

A religion in which extraterrestrials figure prominently.


BCer

British Columbian
British Columbian#English


Wik

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


Lower Silesian

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


om mani padme hum

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

ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ,

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


Silesian German

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


Dumbfuckistan

(derogatory, vulgar) The United States of America.

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

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

(derogatory, US, vulgar) Red states collectively.


Galician-Asturian

A set of Galicia dialects found in Asturias.


Proto-Athabaskan

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


oversman

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


tailzie

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

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


moonrunes

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

Can anyone here read moonrunes?

I'm still learning moonrunes.

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

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


Negrense

A native or inhabitant of the Filipino island of Negros.


Varuzhan

Վարուժան Վարուժան#Armenian

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


Suku

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


Hmar

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


Greenlandic Eskimo Pidgin

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


Netherlandic

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


Alviri-Vidari

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


covenstead

From coven + stead; first attested in 1969.

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

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

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

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

The covenstead is the meeting place of a coven.

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

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


Cyrenian

en-adj

Cyrenian (comparative more Cyrenian, superlative most Cyrenian)

more Cyrenian (comparative)
most Cyrenian (superlative)

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

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


Cyrenian

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

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


Gaditanian

Gaditanian (comparative more Gaditanian, superlative most Gaditanian)

more Gaditanian (comparative)
most Gaditanian (superlative)

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

Of, from, or relating to Cádiz in Spain.


Arverni

/ɑːɹˈvɜːɹnaɪ/

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


Canary Islander

en-noun

Canary Islander (plural Canary Islanders)


Modoc

From Klamath-Modoc moatokni (“southerner”).

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


Modoc

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


Cyrenaic

en-adj

Cyrenaic (comparative more Cyrenaic, superlative most Cyrenaic)

more Cyrenaic (comparative)
most Cyrenaic (superlative)

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

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

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

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


Cyrenaic

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

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

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


Pre-Greek

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

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


necronym

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

Some cultures have a taboo against uttering necronyms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Ashby

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


Beej

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


Bobby Joe

A compound male given name originating as a coinage.


Billy Jean

A compound female given name originating as a coinage.


Parian

en-noun

Parian (countable and uncountable, plural Parians)

(countable) A native or inhabitant of Paros.


Atellan

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

A kind of farcical drama performed at Atella.


Cú Chulainn

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

cog

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


Zev

A male given name from Hebrew found in the Jewish demographic


blanch holding

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

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

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


Muhammed

A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad


Ditidaht

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


Wakashan

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


Klallam

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

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


No Fun City

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Serer

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


Dickboy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Iqalummiuq

An inhabitant of the city of Iqaluit, Canada


Iqalungmiut

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


Iqalungmiut

en-adj

Iqalungmiut (comparative more Iqalungmiut, superlative most Iqalungmiut)

more Iqalungmiut (comparative)
most Iqalungmiut (superlative)

Of or relating to Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay).


Billyjean

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


Senones

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


Cormick

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


obtemper

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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


backbond

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


Tolomako

An Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu.


Yidiny

After the Yidindji tribe (orthographies vary).

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


Lushootseed

Anglicized form of Lushootseed xʷəlšucid or dxʷləšúcid.

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


Manam

A language spoken mainly on the island of Manam.


Macushi

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


Yael

Rendering of the modern Israeli Hebrew יעל.


decerniture

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


Ahwai

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


Akpes

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


Amarakaeri

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


Aka-Bo

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

der

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


Alaba-K'abeena

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


Pucikwar

The A-Pucikwar language spoken by these people.


Hiroshiman

A native or inhabitant of Hiroshima, Japan.


Abun

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


Angami

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


Abelam

The Ambulas language of Papua New Guinea.


A-Pucikwar

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

The now-extinct language spoken by the Pucikwar people.


Woi

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


East Frisian

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

The Low German dialect spoken in East Frisia.


East Frisian

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


Krio

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

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


Mizo

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


assythment

en-noun

assythment (countable and uncountable, plural assythments)

/əˈsʌɪðmənt/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


asteroidian

But you remained conservative, A changeless asteroidian.

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

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

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

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

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

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


Gadang

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


Babungo

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


Bafanji

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


Bafut

The Eastern Grassfields language spoken in Cameroon.


Babuza

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


ǃOǃKung

ǃOǃkung Bushman (Angola): […]

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

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

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

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

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

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


Lepcha

Lepcha language
Lepcha people
Lepcha script

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


Ogoni

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


Bagirmi

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

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


Vengo

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


Nessa

A female given name, nickname of Vanessa.


Radney

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


Meccawee

(obsolete) Meccan (native or inhabitant of Mecca)


Sciot

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


Pshavian

A dialect of the Georgian language spoken in Pshavi.


ǁXegwi

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

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

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

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

TABLE 11.2 Loss of ancestral ! clicks in ǁXegwi.

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

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


Gcwi

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

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


Sanctus

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

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


Trisagion

Trisagion (plural Trisagia or Trisagions)

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

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

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

Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity

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


Bon Gula

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

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

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

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

Not intelligible with Bon Gula or Zan Gula.

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

An Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Chad.


Zan Gula

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

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


Kulaal

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

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

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

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

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

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


Karo Batak

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Gola

Most De speak Gola fluently and many also speak Vai.

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

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

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

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

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


Cyndi

A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia.


Northern Irelander

Northern Irelander (plural Northern Irelanders)

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

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


Smyrniot

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

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

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


Alumu

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Alumu.

A Plateau language spoken in Nassarawa State, Nigeria.


Moesogothic

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


Georgios

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

Γεώργιος Γεώργιος#Greek

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


Theodoros

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

Θεόδωρος Θεόδωρος#Greek

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


Angele

A female given name from French, anglicized by Angèle


Stephani

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

Stephani Victor, b. 1969


Wacoan

en-adj

Wacoan (comparative more Wacoan, superlative most Wacoan)

more Wacoan (comparative)
most Wacoan (superlative)


Angelos

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


Petros

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

Πέτρος Πέτρος#Greek

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

Պետրոս Պետրոս#Armenian

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


Neogothic

Neogothic (comparative more Neogothic, superlative most Neogothic)

more Neogothic (comparative)
most Neogothic (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(architecture, literature) Alternative form of neogothic


Guernseyman

Someone from Guernsey; a Guernsey native or inhabitant.


Indo-Portuguese

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


Mongo

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

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


Isan

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

der

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


Malvinian

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


Kelper

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


Bats

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


Lolly

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

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

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

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

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

2010, Harry Hughes, Horseshoes, unnumbered page:

A diminutive of the female given names Laura or Louise.


Richy

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


Sassarese

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


Otomanguean

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


Liparian

en-adj

Liparian (comparative more Liparian, superlative most Liparian)

more Liparian (comparative)
most Liparian (superlative)

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


Kaingang

An Indigenous Brazilian language of the Gê family.


Eastie

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


Nola

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

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

2011, Bebe Wilde, The Weaker Sex, page 33


Dadibi

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


Hephthalite

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

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

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

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

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

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

հեփթաղ

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


Lavern

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


La Vergne

From the French surname Lavergne. Variant of Laverne.

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


apprizer

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

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

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


obreption

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

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

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

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


Kipling

en-proper noun

Kipling (countable and uncountable, plural Kiplings)


Alora

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

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


La Toya

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

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


Rhaeto-Romance

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

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


Griqua

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

Griekwa

member of a multiracial people of South Africa


Sidonian

(historical) A native or inhabitant of Sidon.


Constant

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


Firmin

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


American Spanish

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


Xiaomin

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


stave church

A wooden church with a medieval post and lintel construction.


Ngbandi

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


Semi-Saxon

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


Semi-Saxon

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


subreption

en-noun

subreption (countable and uncountable, plural subreptions)

/sʌbˈɹɛpʃən/

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

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


Nyankole

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


Nkore

The lect spoken by these people, Nyankole.


Libyan Arabic

A group of Arabic dialects spoken primarily in Libya.


Black English

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

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

African-American English
African-American English#English

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

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


Justin

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

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

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

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

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

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


Hyblaean

en-adj

Hyblaean (comparative more Hyblaean, superlative most Hyblaean)

more Hyblaean (comparative)
most Hyblaean (superlative)

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

der

Of or pertaining to the Hyblaean Mountains.


Hyblaean

en-noun

Hyblaean (countable and uncountable, plural Hyblaeans)

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

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