Hyblaean

The dialects of Sicily spoken in the Hyblaean Mountains.


Zarma

A Songhay language spoken primarily in Niger.


Faroish

From Faroe + -ish, after Icelandic færeyskur.

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

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

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

ֆարերյան

pertaing to the Faroish language, people or Faroe Islands


Faroish

A person from the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islander.


Faroish

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

1893, The ballad minstrelsy of Scotland:

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


Catawban

A native or inhabitant of Catawba County.


Marwari

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


Elfdalian

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

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


Pleiadean

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


Blairist

en-adj

Blairist (comparative more Blairist, superlative most Blairist)

more Blairist (comparative)
most Blairist (superlative)

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

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

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

2000, The Salisbury Review: Volumes 19-20:

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


Urum

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

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


Janaki

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


Grigoris

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

Γρηγόρης Γρηγόρης#Greek

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


Vasilikas

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

Βασιλικάσ Βασιλικάσ#Greek

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


Kyriakos

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

Κυριάκος Κυριάκος#Greek

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


Vasilis

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

Βασίλης Βασίλης#Greek

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


Michalis

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

Μιχάλης Μιχάλης#Greek

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


Styliani

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

Στυλιανή Στυλιανή#Greek

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


Theofanis

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

Θεοφάνης Θεοφάνης#Greek

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


Dimitris

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

Δημήτρης Δημήτρης#Greek

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


Konstantina

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

Κωνσταντίνα Κωνσταντίνα#Greek

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


Kausalya

Borrowed from Sanskrit कौसल्या (kausalyā).

bor+

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


Giannis

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

Γιάννης Γιάννης#Greek

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


Kostas

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

Κώστας Κώστας#Greek

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


Spyridon

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


Sokratis

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

Σωκράτης Σωκράτης#Greek

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


Savva

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

Σάββα Σάββα#Greek

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


Panagiotis

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

Παναγιώτης Παναγιώτης#Greek

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


Eirini

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

Ειρήνη Ειρήνη#Greek

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


Kalliopi

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

Καλλιόπη Καλλιόπη#Greek

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


Xavi

A diminutive of the male given name Xavier


Ioannis

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

Ιωάννης Ιωάννης#Greek

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


Ekaterini

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

Αικατερίνη Αικατερίνη#Greek

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


Athanasios

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

Αθανάσιος Αθανάσιος#Greek

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


Dimitra

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

Δήμητρα Δήμητρα#Greek

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


Vasilios

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

Βασίλειος Βασίλειος#Greek

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


Eleni

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

doublet

Ελένη Ελένη#Greek

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


Sotiris

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

Σωτήρης Σωτήρης#Greek

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


Evanthia

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


Konstadinos

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

Κωνσταντίνος

Κωνσταντίνος Κωνσταντίνος#Greek

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


Western Highland Purepecha

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

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


Lakshmana

Borrowed from Sanskrit लक्ष्मण (lakṣmaṇa).

A male given name from Sanskrit used mostly in India.


Avraam

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

Αβραάμ Αβραάμ#Greek

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


Kalomoira

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

Καλομοίρα Καλομοίρα#Greek

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


Gadjang

Synonym of Worimi (“Australian Aboriginal language”)


Nutmegger

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Arundhati

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Hari

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Satyavati

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

A female given name from Sanskrit used mostly in India.


Subhadra

A female given name from Sanskrit mostly used in India.


Southern Sesotho

The Sesotho language, when distinguished from Northern Sesotho.


Aequian

The Italic language spoken by the Aequi.


Abor-Miri

/ˌɑˌbɔɹˈmɪ.ɹi/


what are you looking at

(rhetorical question, somewhat hostile) Expresses discomfort because the interlocutor is looking at something; usually, this is said when the interlocutor has been staring at the speaker.


Xiongnu

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

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


Diedre

A female given name from Irish, variant of Deirdre.


Proto-Malayic

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Malayic languages.


Lombardish

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

inh

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

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

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

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

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


Lombardish

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


Proto-Baltic

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


Party of No

Coined in United States political commentary since 2008.

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


Tungus

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

der

(dated, possibly obsolete) The Evenki language.


nonentry

en-noun

nonentry (countable and uncountable, plural nonentries)

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


Zeme

A Sino-Tibetan language spoken in northeastern India.


Pipil

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

nawat

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


Hmongic

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


Rennellese

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


Armoric

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

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


Tersanctus

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

bor+

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


Bullom So

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


Mithraeum

en-noun

Mithraeum (plural Mithraea or Mithraeums)

A grotto where the god Mithra was worshipped.


ghost rocket

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

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

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

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

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

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

unidentified flying objects
unidentified flying objects

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

spökraket

rocket shaped UFOs sighted in 1946 in Sweden


black triangle

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

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

Note: The black triangle is a commonly seen UFO.

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

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

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

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

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

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


selfname

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

But first of all came Lystra with her selfname.

2000, Joan Slonczewski, A Door Into Ocean:

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


Mulao

A Tai-Kadai language spoken by the Mulao people.


Haunebu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Vril

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

coined

Coordinate term: Haunebu

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

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

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


Transalpine

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


Jezza

A diminutive of the male given name Jeremy.


Cindi

A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia.


Precious

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

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


Rukmini

Borrowed from Sanskrit रुक्मिणी (rukmiṇī).

A female given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.


Yashoda

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


Cahuilla

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


Yaghnobi

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

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


Seleucus

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

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


Talysh

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

The Western Iranian language of the Talysh people.


blue wall

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

Coordinate term: red wall

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


Kinshasan

en-adj

Kinshasan (comparative more Kinshasan, superlative most Kinshasan)

more Kinshasan (comparative)
most Kinshasan (superlative)

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

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


Chorasmian

an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in Chorasmia


Ur-Germanic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2005, Heath Pearson, Origins of Law and Economics:

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

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

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

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

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

The category of Proto-Germanic on Wiktionary


Israelian

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

coined

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


Milyan

An extinct Indo-European language in the Anatolian group.


Hayasan

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


Mysian

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


Juǀʼhoan

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


Candiot

en-adj

Candiot (comparative more Candiot, superlative most Candiot)

more Candiot (comparative)
most Candiot (superlative)

Compare English Cypriot and French candiote.

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


Delon

(African-American Vernacular) A male given name


!Kung

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

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

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

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

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

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


Ally Pally

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


Mangareva

The Polynesian language of the Gambier Islands.


Modenese

Modenese (comparative more Modenese, superlative most Modenese)

more Modenese (comparative)
most Modenese (superlative)

Of or relating to Modena or its inhabitants.


Modenese

en-noun

Modenese (countable and uncountable, plural Modenese)

(countable) A native or inhabitant of Modena.

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


Bina

A language spoken in Nigeria, also called Binawa.


pelicanist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Tall White

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

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

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

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

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

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

(ufology) A member of a certain race of extraterrestrials


Tsat

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


Mono

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

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


Abd Allah

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

transliteration

عَبْد اللَّٰه

عَبْد اللَّٰه
عبد الله#Arabic

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


Capetonian

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


Eyak

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


Sinto

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

Coordinate term: Sinta

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


Senufo

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


Senufo

A group of approximately 15 languages spoken by the Senufo.


Domari

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


rejoiner

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

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

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

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


Walmajarri

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


Ngumbin

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


Djaru

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


Thatchernomics

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


clear blue water

Introduced by the Conservative Party in the 1990s.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

daylight

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


Litvak

Borrowed from Yiddish ליטוואַק (litvak).

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

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

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

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

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

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


Nevin

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


Ayu

A language spoken in Kaduna State of Nigeria.


Proto-Philippine

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Philippine languages.


Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

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

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


Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian

From proto- + Western Malayo-Polynesian.

Western Malayo-Polynesian
Western Malayo-Polynesian

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


Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

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


Proto-Central Malayo-Polynesian

Central Malayo-Polynesian
Central Malayo-Polynesian

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


Proto-Nuclear Polynesian

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


Proto-Eastern Polynesian

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


Proto-South Sulawesi

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


Moni

A diminutive of the female given names Monica or Monika


Proto-Malayo-Chamic

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


Abung

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


Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan

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


Wuhanese

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

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


Cash

en-proper noun

Cash (countable and uncountable, plural Cashes)

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

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

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

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Proto-Atayalic

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Atayalic languages.


Proto-Bungku-Tolaki

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Bungku-Tolaki languages.


Purity

A female given name from English from the virtue purity.


Proto-Chamic

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Chamic languages.


Pacific Northwesterner

en-noun

Pacific Northwesterner (plural Pacific Northwesterners)

Shaken and upset, Esther did what any Pacific Northwesterner would: she drove directly to a coffee shop and ordered a latte.

2001, Patricia K. Lichen, Passionate Slugs and Hollywood Frogs: An Uncommon Field Guide to Northwest Backyards, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 121:

A resident of the Pacific Northwest region of North America.


Cascadian

Cascadians gathered enough political strength in Congress to defeat proposed border-crossing fees, and they got approval for dedicated commuter lanes and smart cards to speed transit at the Peace Arch crossing.

2007, Reginald C. Stuart, Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, →ISBN, page 270:

A resident of the Cascadia bioregion of North America.


CPB

Communist Party of Britain
w:Communist Party of Britain

(UK politics) Initialism of Communist Party of Britain.


Lefkosian

(possibly offensive or proscribed) Synonym of Nicosian: of, from, or pertaining to Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.


Lefkosian

(possibly offensive or proscribed) Synonym of Nicosian: a person from Nicosia.


Solano

The little-known extinct language spoken by the Solano.


Nero

"Nero Wolfe. It's his house and he lives here." "That's an odd name. Nero Wolfe? What does he—Is he a lawyer?"

1963, Rex Stout, Trio for Blunt Instruments, Random House LLC, published 2010, →ISBN:

A male given name from Latin, more common in fiction than in real life.


Shayna

Yiddish שיינע (sheyne), a feminine inflection of שיין (sheyn, “beautiful”)


South Ossetian

A person from South Ossetia or of South Ossetian descent.

eteläossetialainen

person from or descended from South Ossetia


Huaorani

From Huaorani huaorani (“Huaorani, true human”).

der

The language, a language isolate, which is spoken by these people.


TomKat

Blend of Tom + Katie, as a play on tomcat.

Right now, celebrity photographers are in a frenzy trying to wrangle an image of TomKat's kitten.

2006 April 19, Buck Wolf, “Multimillion-Dollar Bounty on TomKat Baby Photo”, in ABC News:

The Beckhams were among several A-lister guests invited to the TomKat wedding at a castle in Italy last month.

2006 December 5, “Katie welcomes Victoria to the neighbourhood”, in Daily Mail:

With her bodyguard tailing closely, Holmes uttered her first public words since the TomKat split, telling the paper, "I'm all right, thank you."

2012 July 4, Leslie Miller, “Katie Holmes breaks silence after divorce announcement”, in ABC 7:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, together from 2005 to 2012.


Robsten

Certainly, though, the messages about Robsten that the fans receive are mixed. Pattinson and Stewart regularly deny the relationship in the mainstream press […]

2010, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Scott Walus, Melissa A. Click, “Twilight and the Production of the 21st Century Teen Idol”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 233:

Based on Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's recent trip to London, Star blares that the couple is "going public." They support this idea with a slew of quotes from Rob's aunt, Diana Nutley, who gushes that "it's a true love match," wishes Robsten "all the happiness in the world," and sagely points out that "when a young couple love each other, they can't hide their feelings forever."

2010 March 5, Patrick Huguenin, “Newsstand Junkie: Love hurts for Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian”, in New York Daily News:

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are fueling rumors of a possible Robsten reconciliation since news broke of her affair with director Rupert Sanders.

2012 September 19, “KStew and RPatz secretly meeting post-scandal”, in New York Post:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, together from 2009 to 2013.


Borismania

2012 October 8, James Kirkup, The Telegraph:

(UK politics) Enthusiasm for Boris Johnson (born 1964), British politician and Mayor of London.


Bennifer

Although her Gigli costar stood off to the side and said nothing, Bennifer observers noted that Lopez was once again wearing the $1.2 million pink diamond engagement ring Affleck gave her.

2003 October 28, Gary Susman, “Jenny From the Block”, in Entertainment Weekly:

Ben Affleck […] plays Ollie Trinkle. His wife is played by Jennifer Lopez, whose bit part was made even smaller when Smith scrapped a wedding scene with the couple after Bennifer became no more.

2004 March 27, Beth Jones, “'Jersey Girl' is so lame, you even miss J.Lo”, in Roanoke Times:

The public couldn't get enough of Bennifer - possible wedding dates, the Harry Winston engagement rock, various tiffs and reunions.

2005 December 5, Amy Cooper, “Love in a goldfish bowl”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

“Part of what makes the Bennifer [Jennifer and Ben]^([sic]) story so enticing is that it fills a neat romantic narrative: two people who were in love but things came between them and they find each other again 20 years later,” said the dating coach Hayley Quinn.

2021 July 30, Hayley Quinn, quotee, “Bennifer is back, but don’t rush to contact your ex, say experts”, in The Guardian:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, together from 2002 to 2004 and again from 2021 to 2024.


ǂHoan

Some languages are able to morphologically express plurality of events. For instance, in ǂHoan (a moribund Khoisan language spoken in southeastern Botswana), kí- is attached to a verb to express plurality related to events (Collins 2001).

2007, Kimiko Nakanishi, Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions, page 251:

Map 14 shows that the minority type of SVO&GenN languages are primarily found in two areas, among Gur, Kru, and Kwa languages in west Africa and among various Khoisan groups in southern Africa (Ju, ǂHoan, ǃUi and Taa).

2011, Matthew S. Dryer, Noun-Modifier Order in Africa, in Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas (Osamu Hieda, Christa König, Hiroshi Nakagawa), page 304

A Khoisan language of Botswana, also called ǂHõã.


Tujia

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 土家族 (Tǔjiāzú).

Their Tibeto-Burman language, which has northern and southern dialects.


ecnomid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ecnomidae of caddisflies.


Montana Salish

A Salishan language spoken in parts of Washington and Montana.


Karaim

At times the discrepancy can be even greater: only 12.8% of the Karaim, a Turkic-speaking group living for the most part in Lithuania, declared Karaim as their native language.

1981, Bernard Comrie, The Languages of the Soviet Union, page 2:

For more than six hundred years, Karaim has been spoken as a community language in what is today Lithuania.

2001, Éva Ágnes Csató, “Syntactic code-copying in Karaim”, in Östen Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, editors, The Circum-Baltic Languages: Typology and Contact, volume 1, →ISBN, page 271:

A Kipchak Turkic language, with Aramaic and Persian influences, spoken in Lithuania, Poland, the Crimea and the Ukraine.

karaiimi

Kipchak Turkic language with Aramaic and Persian influences


Miccosukee

Their language, closely related to Hitchiti.


Cordoban

en-adj

Cordoban (comparative more Cordoban, superlative most Cordoban)

more Cordoban (comparative)
most Cordoban (superlative)


Cordovan

/ˈkɔːɹdəvən/


Dothraki

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin.
Its fictional derivation is borrowed from Dothraki Dothraki (literally “[we] ride”).

bor+

For example, in Dothraki something done in secret is done torga essheyi—literally, “under a roof”.

2010 September-October, Jim Henry, “Dothraki and Esperanto: an interview with language creator David J. Peterson”, in Usona Esperantisto, →ISSN, page 9:

Dothraki has four vowels.

2011 October 15, Stephen D. Rogers, A Dictionary of Made-Up Languages: From Adûnaic to Elvish, Zaum to Klingon— the Anwa (Real) Origins of Invented Lexicons, Avon: Adams Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 54:

You want to learn a really impressive second language? Try Dothraki. Win over any man in my guild.

2012 October 4, “Andy's Ancestry” (2:51), in The Office (US), season 9, episode 3, spoken by Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson):

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language created for, and spoken in, the Game of Thrones television adaptation in 2011.


Austroasiatic

en-adj

Austroasiatic (comparative more Austroasiatic, superlative most Austroasiatic)

more Austroasiatic (comparative)
most Austroasiatic (superlative)

Borrowed from German Austroasiatisch, austroasiatisch, coined by Wilhelm Schmidt, from Latin auster (“south”) + German asiatisch (“Asian”).

Of the Austroasiatic languages, a major language family spoken in parts of Southeast Asia, India and the Nicobar Islands.


Frenchperson

en-noun

Frenchperson (plural Frenchpersons or Frenchpeople)

Frenchpersons (plural)
Frenchpeople (plural)

(uncommon) A person of a French ancestry or a French nationality.


Bornholmsk

Bornholmers speak a language, Bornholmsk, that differs both from standard Danish and Swedish; its grammatical features such as triple genders are similar to those in Norwegian or Icelandic and its phonetic patterns similar to south-Swedish Scanian.

2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 87:

A language or Danish dialect spoken on the Baltic island of Bornholm.


Jinny

A diminutive of the female given name Virginia.


Emilian

A language spoken in the historical region of Emilia, closely related to Romagnol.

emilià

a language spoken in the historical region of Emilia, closely related to Romagnol


Britoness

Yet the bold Britonesse was nought ydred, / Though much emmov'd, but stedfast still persevered.

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


Yaroslav

Transliteration of Ukrainian Яросла́в (Jarosláv) or Russian Яросла́в (Jarosláv).

Яросла́в Ярослав#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Яросла́в (Jarosláv).

Яросла́в Ярослав#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Яросла́в (Jarosláv).


Klamath-Modoc

The now-extinct language spoken by the Klamath and Modoc peoples of northern California and Oregon.


Astur-Leonese

A Romance language, or language family, historically spoken in northwestern Spain (mostly modern-day Asturias and León)


Arkansan

/ˈɑː(ɹ)kənˌsɔːn/

United States of America
United States of America

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


don't I know it

"Here's your shirt," said Slippery. "Make it snappy, we're late."
"Don't I know it," replied the Owl, emerging from the closet with his dinner jacket and vest[…]

(informal) I know; I am very familiar with it (some stated fact).


Sealander

Sealanders claim they will not be subject to the e-commerce laws coming into force in Britain and elsewhere, and plan to establish an offshore "data haven"[…]

2000, New Scientist, volume 166, numbers 2237-2244, page 17:

Unlike Bates and his fellow Sealanders, however, Harman didn't get away with this and was forced to stop producing currency and pay the British government a £5 fine.

2009, Henry Hemming, In Search of the English Eccentric:


Hispanic America

The region comprising the countries in the Americas inhabited by Spanish-speaking people

Spaans-Amerika

parts of the Americas which speak Spanish


Low Prussian

Cognate to or a calque of German Niederpreußisch.

A dialect of East Low German that developed in Prussia (East Prussia, West Prussia and Danzig), influenced to some extent by Dutch and Old Prussian, and to a small extent by Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian, which is now spoken in Germany and which gave rise to Plautdietsch.


Plautdietsch

From Plautdietsch Plautdietsch. Cognate to Dutch Low Saxon Platduuts and German Low German Plattdütsch, Plattdüütsch, as well as to High German Plattdeutsch (whence English Plattdeutsch).

cog

Mennonite Low German
Mennonite Low German#English


New Low German

The modern stage of the Low German language, distinguished from its predecessor stages such as Middle Low German.


Paduan

(historical) An imitation coin resembling old Roman bronze coins, made at Padua in the 16th century.


Curonian

An extinct Baltic language spoken by the Curonians.


Redflower

The respected Redflower was left where she had fallen.

1976, Jack Williamson, The power of blackness, page 105:

(science fiction and modern fairy tales) A female given name.


Nicholine

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a feminine form of Nicholas.


Thomasine

A female given name from Aramaic, a feminine form of Thomas.


Cuman

From Medieval Latin Cumani, from Byzantine Greek Κουμάνοι (Koumánoi), perhaps ultimately from the name of the Kuma River.

(historical) A member of a nomadic Turkic people of central Asia who ruled parts of Eurasia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.


Texican

(informal) Of or relating to both Texas and Mexico, Texans in Mexico, or Mexicans in Texas.


Texican

(informal) A resident or denizen of Texas who identifies as Mexican.


Florinda

Fanciful variant of Flora suffixed with -inda, partly borrowed from the equally rare Spanish Florinda.

Florinda sate / Beholding Roderick with fixed eyes intent, / Yet unregardant of the countenance / Whereon they dwelt; in other thoughts absorbed, […]

1816, Robert Southey, Roderick: The Last of the Goths, page 119:


Sloan

en-proper noun

Sloan (countable and uncountable, plural Sloans)


Byrne

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Broin (“descendant of Bran”), a personal name based on bran (“raven”).

A male given name derived from the surname.


Starr

Starr (countable and uncountable, plural Starrs)

* As an English surname, from the noun star.
* As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Star.


Shepherd

Shepherd (countable and uncountable, plural Shepherds)


Brogan

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Brógáin (“descendants of Brógán”), probably from a diminutive of bróg (“shoe”).

der

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.


Shelton

From Old English scylfe (“deck, shelf”) + tun (“town”). Doublet of Skelton.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Tate

From Middle English *Tate, partially from Old English Tāta, from Proto-West Germanic *tait, from Proto-Germanic *taitaz (“radiant, glad, cheerful, tender”); and partially from Old Norse Táta, a personal name of unknown meaning. Doublet of Tait and Zeiss.

A surname transferred from the given name.

A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname.


Ubykh

The extinct ergative and agglutinative language spoken by the Ubykh people, notable for its large number of distinct consonants and only two vowels.


Buck

* For both the English surname and given name, originally a nickname for someone who resembled a buck.
* Also as an English topographic surname, from Middle English buk (modern beech).
* As a German and Dutch surname, shortened from Burkhard, compare Burkhart.
* As a north German and Danish surname, from Middle Low German bûk (“belly”), from Old Saxon būk, from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Compare Bauch.
* Also as a German and Dutch surname, variant of Bock.
* Also as a German surname, variant of Puck.
* As a Germanized Lower Sorbian surname, from buk (“beech”).


Bishop

en-prop

Bishop (countable and uncountable, plural Bishops)

en:Bishop (artillery)
en:Bishop (disambiguation)
en:Bishop (surname)

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


Jessamy

Equivalent to Jasmine and Jessamine. Popularized by the character Jessamy in Barbara Sleigh's 1967 children's book Jessamy.

Jessamy’s eyes widened. What was it Matchett had said? That she would not take sauce from Jessamy because she was ‘only the housekeeper’s niece and the cook-housekeeper at that?’

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 32:

‘Aunt Maggie, why was I ever called Jessamy?’ And as she said it she wondered why she had never thought to ask before. Her aunt changed the heavy suitcase to the other hand and said, ‘It was your mother’s name.’ Jessamy’s heart gave a little jump inside her, and Aunt Maggie went on: ‘When I said I thought it was too fly-away, and wouldn’t Ann or Mary be more sensible, she said that the eldest daughter was always called Jessamy in her family.’

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 146:


Farley

From Old English fearn (“fern”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent to fern + -ley (“lea”) and doublet of Farnley.

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


Stone

en-proper noun

Stone (countable and uncountable, plural Stones)


Grey Lady

Attested since at 1951. The term is unrelated to the color of the newspaper.


Porter

Porter (countable and uncountable, plural Porters)

French: Porter

From Middle English Porter, from porter (“porter”),
* From Old French portier (“doorman”), from porte (“door”)
* From Old French portour (“bearer”), from porter (“to carry”)

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">doorman</i>

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">bearer</i>


Heath

Heath (disambiguation)#Places
Heath (name)


Chadwick

en-proper noun

Chadwick (countable and uncountable, plural Chadwicks)

Derived from Old English Ċeadda (“Chad”) + Old Norse vík.

com

foreword by Chadwick Smith.

2012, Patti Dickinson, Coach Tommy Thompson and the Boys of Sequoyah, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page iv:


Raju

Borrowed from Telugu రాజు (rāju, “king”), from Sanskrit राजन् (rājan).


Golden

en-proper noun

Golden (countable and uncountable, plural Goldens)

* As an English surname, from the adjective golden.
* As an Irish surname, from mag Ualghairg; see McGoldrick.


Sandhya

Borrowed from Sanskrit संध्या (saṃdhyā, “twilight”).

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Shankar

From Sanskrit शंकर (śaṃkara) meaning one who gives happiness.

A male given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.


Lienux

(Internet slang, derogatory) The Linux operating system.


Jagannath

From Sanskrit जगन्नाथ (jagannātha). Doublet of juggernaut.


Stellingwerfs

A form of Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland.

Drents

other Low German dialects in the Netherlands


Acharya

From Sanskrit आचार्य (ācārya, “one who is learned in conduct”), from आचार (ācāra, “rules, conduct”).

bor

A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Messapian

From Messapi + -ian, from Ancient Greek Μεσσάπιος (Messápios).


Equatoguinean

en-adj

Equatoguinean (comparative more Equatoguinean, superlative most Equatoguinean)

more Equatoguinean (comparative)
most Equatoguinean (superlative)


Equatoguinean

We have already seen, in Chapter II, that Equatoguineans like Ilonbe and Loboch imply that they feel imprisoned.

2007, Emily Ann Knudson-Vilaseca, Embodying the Un/home: African Immigration to Portugal and Spain:

Many of the Equatoguineans I met referred to this group as "monkey counters" and wondered out loud why anyone would want to go around counting monkeys.


Chandrika

From Sanskrit चन्द्रिका (candrikā, “moonlight, moonshine”).

der

A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Auhelawa

An Oceanic Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.


Oroqen

Possibly from Manchu ᠣᡵᠣᠨᠴᠣ (oronco, “Oroqens”).

A Northern Tungusic language spoken by these people.


Evenk

en-noun

Evenk (plural Evenks or Evenk or Evenki)

Evenks (plural)
Evenk (plural)
Evenki (plural)

A member of the Evenki people of Northeastern Asia (formerly called the Tungus people).

էվենկ

member of the Tungus people of Northeastern Asia


Tobagonian

The Noted Activist was a handsome Tobagonian, of Indian heritage.

2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 307:


Mitch

A diminutive of the male given name Mitchell


Maddox

en-proper noun

Maddox (countable and uncountable, plural Maddoxes)


Meade

Meade (countable and uncountable, plural Meades)

Two main origins:
* A variant of Mead, a topographic or occupational surname.
* Anglicized form of Irish Midheach, superseded spelling of Míoch (“Meathman, a native of Meath”).

A male or female given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.


Shiloh

From Biblical Hebrew שִׁילֹה \ שִׁלֹה (shiló).

bor

שִׁילֹה \ שִׁלֹה

Shiloh
Shiloh (biblical city)
Shiloh (given name)


Barnett

en-proper noun

Barnett (countable and uncountable, plural Barnetts)


Ozzie

A diminutive of the male given name Oswald

A diminutive of the male given name Oscar


Benton

Benton (countable and uncountable, plural Bentons)

From either Old English bēan (“bean”) or *beonet (“bentgrass”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).


Bonner

Bonner (countable and uncountable, plural Bonners)

An unincorporated community in Morrill County, Nebraska, United States.


Aaren

Rare spelling variant of Aaron, also used for females since the end of the 20th century.


Bowen

A male given name transferred from the surname.


hard sign

Calque of Russian твёрдый знак (tvjórdyj znak).

calque

твёрдый знак

The Cyrillic letter Ъ/ъ, which in modern languages serves to denote a hard (non-palatalized) consonant.


Odell

en-proper noun

Odell (countable and uncountable, plural Odells)


soft sign

Calque of Russian мя́гкий знак (mjáxkij znak), from мя́гкий (mjáxkij, “palatal, palatized, soft”) + знак (znak, “mark, sign”).

calque

мя́гкий знак

The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь (transliterated in English with an apostrophe (’) or prime (′)), which in modern languages using the Cyrillic alphabet serves to denote a soft (palatized) consonant.


Khazar

The origin is unknown. Attested as Arabic خَزَر (ḵazar), Byzantine Greek Χάζαροι (Kházaroi), Hebrew כּוּזָרִים (Kuzarim), Middle Chinese 突厥曷薩 (*tʰuət̚-kɨut̚ ɦɑt̚-sɑt̚) and Middle Chinese 突厥可薩部 (*tʰuət̚-kɨut̚ kʰɑ^X-sɑt̚ buo^X), Latin Gazari and Cosar, Old Armenian խազիրք (xazirkʻ), Old East Slavic козаринъ (kozarinŭ), Persian خزر (xazar), Russian хаза́р (xazár), Tatar хәзәр (xäzär), Turkish Hazar, etc. Compare Old Uyghur 𐰴𐱁𐰺 (qšr¹), Middle Persian [script needed] (Kesar), Tibetan [script needed] (ge-sar).
See Wikipedia's article for etymology.

unk

unknown

cog

𐰸𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰇𐰢 𐰸𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰇𐰢#Khazar

The Turkic language of the Khazar people, of which a single word is attested, 𐰸𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰇𐰢.


Ewing

en-proper noun

Ewing (countable and uncountable, plural Ewings)

(countable) An unknown-gender given name transferred from the surname


Ratna

From Sanskrit रत्न (rátna, “jewel, gem”).

A unisex given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.


Chang

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin 張／张 (Zhāng) Wade-Giles romanization: Chang¹. Doublet of Teo.

Former Chinese warlord Chang Hsueh-liang, who along with Chinese Communists kidnapped Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and changed the course of Chinese history, died in Hawaii on Oct. 15, Taiwan and Chinese news agencies reported. He was 100.[…]
Chang was born June 3, 1901, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, the son of Manchurian military strongman Chang Tso-lin.

2001 October 16, Benjamin Kang Lim, “Chang Hsueh-liang, 100, Dies”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-10-22:

Zhang Xueliang, whose name was also rendered Chang Hsueh-liang, was born in 1901 in Manchuria. His father, Zhang Zuolin, a leading warlord known as "the Old Marshal," was assassinated in 1928 by the Japanese. "The Young Marshal" emerged in his place as one of the most powerful military figures in China.

2001 October 19, Nicholas Kristof, “Zhang Xueliang, 100, Dies; Warlord and Hero of China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-10-24, World:


Chang

A Naga language spoken in north-eastern India.


Elazar

A male given name: alternative form of Eliezer


Venkata

A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Venkateswara

Borrowed from Sanskrit वेङ्कटेश्वर (veṅkaṭeśvara).


Vijaya

A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


chemical symbol

en-noun

chemical symbol (plural chemical symbols)

(chemistry) The 1- to 3-letter international code for a chemical element. It is the same in all languages. Thus, gold always has the chemical symbol "Au", regardless what people call it in their language.


Asu

A Nupoid language spoken in Nigeria (ISO code "aum").

Pare, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania (ISO code "asa").


Chasu

A Bantu language spoken in Northern Tanzania by people living in the Pare Mountains.


Jayasri

Borrowed from Sanskrit [Term?], from जय (jaya) + श्री (śrī).


Jersey Dutch

A lect or set of dialects, derived from Dutch, spoken in New Jersey from the late 17th century until the early 20th century, various dialects of which were more creolized (with English and Lenape) than others.


Janani

Borrowed from Sanskrit जननी (jananī, literally “mother”).


Nechtan

in dialects without the lock–loch merger

Ultimately from the Pictish ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚅ (nehhtonn).

One of the Druids took him to see Nechtan, as one of Nechtan’s roles was to check newcomers’ suitability for entrance to the College.

2007, William Clinkenbeard, Writers at Bay: A Collection of Short Stories, →ISBN, page 183:


Nagaraju

From Sanskrit नाग (nāgá) + राजन् (rājan).


Temple

The two known human AIDS viruses are evolving at a rapid rate equivalent to that of influenza viruses, said Dr. Temple F. Smith of Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, an author of a new report on the AIDS virus family tree.

1988 June 9, Harold M. Schmeck Jr., “Family Tree of AIDS Viruses Is Viewed as 37 to 80 Years Old”, in The New York Times:

Temple Dickson, D-Sweetwater, in a broad attack against cigarette companies, said the bill was needed so that taxpayers will not be paying for diseases caused by cigarettes.

1992 July 11, “Sweetwater senator wants tobacco industry to pay”, in The Victoria Advocate:

Bud Abernathy was 10 years old and Temple Abernathy 6 when the brothers from Cross Roads, Okla., decided they wanted to take a trip to New York — by themselves, on horseback — to see ex-President Theodore Roosevelt.

2002 March, Tom Fleming, “A Wild Ride”, in Boys' Life:

With evident pleasure Temple Hauptfleisch presents the variety of theatrical forms to be found in the 'new' South Africa: […] He distinguishes eight categories of forms on the theatrical menu in South Africa: […]

2003, Joost Smiers, Arts Under Pressure: Protecting Cultural Diversity in the Age of Globalisation, Zed Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 94:

In the 1840s, astronomer Temple Chevallier (1794-1873) experimented with placing a small metal disc in the focus of his telescope's eyepiece to produce an artificial eclipse that would make the protuberances visible on any clear day.

2011, Barbara J. Becker, Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 91:

Temple Hayes, 35, a minister with the Church of Religious Science of West Palm Beach, told the survivors that support and a positive attitude are important in fighting any type of disease.
"In today's times, it is essential that people come together and support each other with like-minded experiences," she said.

1994, Tracy Bertman, "Cancer survivors celebrate life, dreams, The News, 6 June 1994

Dr. Temple Grandin, a university professor who has autism, has plenty of expertise and personal experience with autism, which gives her a unique perspective on the information available.

2006, Stephen M. Shore, Linda G. Rastelli, Understanding Autism for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., published 2006, →ISBN, page 346:

[…] including the 1925 silent film Peacock Feathers, based on the bestselling novel of the same name written by Temple Bailey (1885-1953).

2007, Kathryn Morris, Debora Richey, & Cathy Thomas, Fullerton, Arcadia Publishing (2007), page 6 (image caption)

A city in Carroll County and Haralson County, Georgia.

An unincorporated community in Clare County, Michigan.


Pritenic

(historical) The language of the inhabitants of northern Great Britain during Roman rule in southern Great Britain (1st to 5th centuries AD), a sister or daughter language of British if Pictish is assumed to be a P-Celtic language.


Sarala

A female given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.


Suryakantam

Borrowed from Sanskrit सूर्यकान्त (sūryakānta).


Kipchak

The Turkic language of the Kipchak people


Macca's

[T]he busload of bogans stop at Macca's for a sausage-and-egg McMuffin to line their respective stomachs for the day ahead.

2010, Michael Jayfox, E. Chas McSween, Intravenus DeMilo, Enron Hubbard, Hunter McKenzie-Smythe, Flash Johnson, Things Bogans Like, Sydney: Hachette, page 112:

"So Bell Street Macca's on Saturday?" Macca's on Saturday. Taylor would be in stitches, Scooter would be on the floor. He could hear them: They're taking you to Macca's? To celebrate? Are you serious, fucking Macca's?

2014 September 9, Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda: A Novel, Hogarth, →ISBN:

(Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, slang) The McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants; one of these restaurants.


Macca's

(Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, slang, uncountable) Food purchased at a McDonald's fast food restaurant.


Aditi

From Sanskrit अदिति (aditi, “having nothing to give”); ultimately from अ- (a-) + दिति (diti).

bor

A female given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.


Nicephorus

Borrowed from Latin Nicephorus, from Ancient Greek Νικηφόρος (Nikēphóros).

A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use.


Milwaukeean

A native or inhabitant of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.


Mignon

Borrowed from French Mignon.
* (surname): Occasionally of Walloon origin.

'Yes,' said Mignon, and stretched out her hand for it, but they would not let her take it back.

1984, Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus, Vintage, published 2006, →ISBN, page 150:

Surprisingly, Mignon Anderson, for all her innocence, was born into a theatrical family–in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 31,1892.

2002, Anthony Slide, Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses, University Press of Kentucky, published 2002, →ISBN:

"What will you call yourself? You aren't a Mignon or a Ninette, or anything-ette. […]

2012, Carole DeSanti, The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, →ISBN, page 93:


Jyotsna

Borrowed from Sanskrit ज्योत्स्ना (jyotsnā, “moonlight”).


Cosmas

From Latin Cosmas, from Ancient Greek Κοσμᾶς (Kosmâs), from κόσμος (kósmos). Doublet of Cosmo and related to cosmos.


Chuukese

Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial geminate (double) consonants.

A Trukic language of the Austronesian language family, spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia.


Fakkanci

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Fakkanci.


Taliabu

A language spoken on that island, including the dialect Soboyo.


Manohar

A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Vani

A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Lake

en-proper noun

Lake (countable and uncountable, plural Lakes)

Lake Bell, Lake Chambers Speed


Ramachandra

From Sanskrit रामचन्द्र (rāmacandra), made of Sanskrit राम (Rāma) + चन्द्र (candrá).


Rotwelsch

Coordinate term: Bargoens

(historical) A secret cant or thieves' argot spoken by covert groups primarily in southern Germany and Switzerland.


Blin

The Cushitic language spoken by the Blin people.


Bamar

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma). Doublet of Burma.

A member of the majority ethnic group of Burma (Myanmar).


Mehitabel

Spelling variant of Mehetabel, a name in the Old Testament of the Bible, meaning "God rejoices".


Ruthenian

Any of various languages historically spoken in Ruthenia; West Russian, also known as Old Ukrainian, Old Belarusian and Rusian, any Old East Slavic descendant, which is different from Russian, Great Russian or "East Russian"

заходнеру́скі

West Russian descendant of Old East Slavic - generic

стараўкраі́нскі

West Russian descendant of Old East Slavic - specific to Old Ukrainian

старабелару́скі

West Russian descendant of Old East Slavic - specific to Old Belarusian


Cumrun

کامران کامران#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name کامران (kâmrân).


Vaticanian

The pope of Rome, when all remonstrance fail’d, / As the last act of his supremacy / Commission’d Legates to assuage the feud, / Or threat the king with Vaticanian wrath.

1843, George Castleden, Retribution, Loyal Lyrics, and Fugitive Pieces […], page 35:

There is not the faintest reason for attributing to M. Thiers a Vaticanian infallibility in politics.

1875 December 31, “French Politics”, in Pall Mall Budget, volume 15, page 523:

The Patres immediately appointed Q. Cincinnatus dictator. A sergeant brought him the announcement to the Vaticanian field, where he cultivated a juga of land with four yoke of oxen.

1881, The Illustrated History of the World, for the English People […], volume 1, page 371:

(uncommon, chiefly literary) Relating to the Vatican (any sense); (figuratively) papal.


Enders

Enders (countable and uncountable, plural Enderses)

An unincorporated community in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.


Deano

A diminutive of the male given name Dean


Humphry

Humphry (countable and uncountable, plural Humphrys)

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Hallstatt

The Hallstatt culture of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age.


Samnite

(historical) A native or inhabitant of ancient Samnium.


South Caucasian

en-noun

South Caucasian (plural South Caucasians)


Ananta

From Sanskrit अनन्त (ananta, “endless”).

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


Laquisha

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


Romagnol

From Romagnol rumagnòl, from the Lombardic name for Romania.

A Gallo-Italic language spoken in central Italy, closely related to Emilian.


Stygian

Stygians – natives of Styx

1940, Edmond Hamilton, Calling Captain Future, page 55:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Styx (a moon of Pluto).


Talossan

A constructed language created in 1980 by Robert Ben Madison for the micronation of Talossa.


excamb

en-verb

excamb (third-person singular simple present excambs, present participle excambing, simple past and past participle excambed)

excambs (present singular third-person)
excambing (participle present)
excambed (participle past)
excambed (past)

(transitive, Scots law) To exchange; used with reference to transfers of land.


Lakisha

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


Joelyn

Coined from Jo or Joe + the suffix -lyn in the 20th century.

Faith laughed, pointing out, "All of their names rhyme—Gwendolyn, Jacquelyn, Joelyn. It's kind of weird, don't you think?'

2009, Karin Slaughter, Genesis, Century, →ISBN, page 143:

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Gbin

An extinct Mande language of Ivory Coast.


Swiss German Sign Language

Swiss-German Sign Language
Swiss-German Sign Language#English

Alternative form of Swiss-German Sign Language


German Swiss Sign Language

Swiss-German Sign Language
Swiss-German Sign Language


Jase

A diminutive of the male given name Jason


Berner

Diminutives
* From Bern(ard) (“m”), Bern(adette) (“f”), Bern(ice) (“f”), and -er

A diminutive of the male given name Bernard, variant of Bernie

A diminutive of the female given names Bernadette or Bernice, variant of Bernie


Tír na nÓg

Borrowed from Irish Tír na nÓg (literally “land of the young”), from Old Irish Tír inna n-Óc. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic Tìr nan Òg, Manx Çheer ny Aeg.

bor+

2013, John Jacob English, Fragile Blue, AuthorHouse, page 40,
In the old Irish folklore, this is a land where no one gets old or sick and where heroes live in comfort and tranquillity. But the land of Tír na nÓg only materialises to mere mortals at certain times, under certain circumstances.

2016, Christopher Collins, Theatre and Residual Culture, Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan), page 261,
Tír na nÓg is not an afterlife analogous to the Christian concept of heaven but an Otherworld of earthly paradise that is home to the genealogical ancestors of the fairies, the Tuatha Dé Danaan.

2020, Isabelle Torrance, Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland, Isabelle Torrance, Donncha O'Rourke (editors), Classics and Irish Politics, 1916–2016, Oxford University Press, page 338,
Grafting Tír na nÓg, the mythical land of eternal youth in Irish mythology, onto the Greek tragic tale is a stark and unexpected move.

(Irish mythology) The Land of (eternal) Youth; one of the names for the Celtic otherworld (or possibly a part thereof).


Astrakhanian

Of or pertaining to Astrakhan or its natives, residents or culture.


Pileni

The Samoic language spoken there; Vaeakau-Taumako.


Takuu

A Polynesian language spoken on this atoll.


Vaeakau-Taumako

A Polynesian language spoken in parts of the Solomon Islands.


Pukapukan

A language spoken in the northern Cook Islands. It is a member of the Polynesian family of languages.


Tuamotuan

The language of the Tuamotuan people, which has around 6,000 native speakers in French Polynesia.


Sanga

A Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Mehetabel

From Biblical Hebrew מְהֵיטַבְאֵל (m'heitav'el, “whom God benefits”), the name of a minor biblical character mentioned in he:T:39.

uder

מְהֵיטַבְאֵל

And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 36:39:

This morning, in my study, praying for each of my Children by Name (as I use to do) I left the Name of my Mehetabel unmentioned. I wondred at this Omission, in myself and blam'd and chid myself, that I should bee so sottish, as having but three children to forgett one of them.

1708, Cotton Mather, Diary of Cotton Mather: 1681-1708, Massachusetts Historical Society, page 186:


reptoid

(ufology) A member of an extraterrestrial sapient species said to resemble a reptile, often ascribed shapeshifting capabilities and implicated in many conspiracy theories.


Zonian

A person from, or working in, the former American territory in Panama called the Panama Canal Zone.


Bethlehemite

Faris, the only Bethlehemite in the cast, was striding along with a tour-guide air, visibly pleased to have us on his turf.

2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 218:

Edgar's portrait of the Bedlam beggar, the filthy and "horrible" spectacle with "roaring" voice and "numbed and mortified bare arms," is so realistic that it has acquired a definitional status in the history of madness. Though actual Bethlehemites did not roam the countryside begging alms, "Tom O' Bedlam" was a popular name, like Abraham Man, for crazed vagabonds in Renaissance England.

2010 November 1, Kent Cartwright, Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 210:

(obsolete) An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite.

(historical) Member of an extinct English order of friars.

(historical) Member of a Spanish order of friars, founded in 1653 and refounded in 1984.


Gordo

A diminutive of the male given name Gordon.


Gord

Clipping of Gordon. Second sense is a pronunciation spelling


Kalao

An Austronesian language of Kalao Island, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.


Malukan

en-adj

Malukan (comparative more Malukan, superlative most Malukan)

more Malukan (comparative)
most Malukan (superlative)


Malukan

A native or inhabitant of the Maluku Islands.


Moluccan

Moluccan (comparative more Moluccan, superlative most Moluccan)

more Moluccan (comparative)
most Moluccan (superlative)


Bozo

Thought to derive from the Bambara language, meaning "bamboo house".


Shuswap

The traditional language of these people.


Münchner

[…] especially in regard to hotels and eating-houses, to which Münchners without families resorted for their meals.

1916, Daily Review of the Foreign Press, page 14:

“Zu streng” was the comment of the Münchners, and doubly strenuous it was for an American boy, quite ignorant of German, and held, from the moment of his entrance, responsible for obeying all the elaborate regulations of the school.

1922, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany, volume III, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, page 422:

[…] a thousand heathenish Münchners who drank up five thousand bottles of wine.

1928, The Century Monthly Magazine, volume 116, page 603:

There followed a great commotion and uprising, the Münchners saying that their beer was absolutely necessary to them and that nothing dare be done to make it more difficult of attainment.

1929, World Traveler, volume 21, page 60:

They rolled dice between “Münchners” keeping score on the back of a cardboard “Brauerei Hameln” coaster.

1931, Henry Albert Phillips, Meet the Germans: In Which an American Sees the New Germany Through Its People, Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, page 174:

Whenever in Munich you admire the way the Münchners decorate their houses and lampstands with flower boxes, think kindly and proudly of Count Rumford.

1933, House & Garden, volume 64, page 25:

THE PRACTICAL MÜNCHNERS AT THE OCTOBER FESTIVAL

1936, German Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, Schurz, Carl, National Association, page 228:

I have worked in Munich as a reporter for an international news service, covering a horrible plane crash that also incinerated a streetcar full of Münchners.

2005, William Bridges, Five-Mountain Morning, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 12:

The Starkbierzeit is celebrated by most Munich beer halls. Münchners refer to it as the city's "fifth season."

2005, Larry Hawthorne, The Beer Drinker's Guide to Munich, 5th edition, Freizeit Publishers, →ISBN, page 209:

Augustiner Beer Garden, a true under-the-leaves beer garden packed with Münchners, is a delight. In fact, most Münchners consider Augustiner the best beer garden in town—which may be why it has 5,000 seats.

2016, Rick Steves, Best of Germany, Avalon Travel, Perseus Books, →ISBN:


Hitler Channel

From the large number of World War II documentaries aired on the channel before the creation of the sister network Military History.

Whenever Martin was home, he’d flip around and invariably end up on the History Channel, watching some World War II documentary. I called it the Hitler Channel, since it always featured a Nazi rally or tanks moving on Poland.[…]When we got back to our fairy-tale building in Brooklyn, I cooked and worked and made our bed after we made love in it. I didn’t even mind when he played his music too loud. I didn't mind the Hitler Channel, really.

2004, Helene Stapinski, Baby Plays Around: A Love Affair, with Music, Villard Books, →ISBN, pages 93 and 99:

The children were all tucked in, the dog had been taken for his walk, he was just going to settle down and watch the Hitler channel, (his pet name for The History Channel.)

2009, Hubert L. Bird, chapter 8, in The Temple of Solomon, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:

“My grandma had the TV set permanently on the Hitler Channel this summer,” she told me. “I didn’t have a choice.” Erin called the History Channel the Hitler Channel, because every time she switched it on, they were showing a program about World War II.

2012, Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 50:

“And, as we are speaking of weapons, the last operational Spitfires should join them.” “Are you certain?” I asked, thinking of a previous age when we watched the Hitler Channel together in the afternoons.

2018 November 3, Ian Jack, “British icons to throw off the white cliffs: what’s on your list?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2018-11-03:

(informal, derogatory or humorous) The American television channel History.

History (American TV network)
Military History (TV network)


Petrock

Name of an obscure early saint, of Cornish or Welsh origin. Possibly related to Peter.

A male given name from the Celtic languages of historical use.


Arik

Transcription of a modern Hebrew diminutive of the Hebrew equivalent of Ariel.


Mahommed

A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad


Wazza

(UK, Australia) A diminutive of the male given name Warren.


Lexingtonian

A native or inhabitant of Lexington, Kentucky, United States.


Yinglish

An informal language blending elements of English and Yiddish.


Janglish

Blend of Japanese + English, with intended pun on jangle (“sound discordantly”); coined by English author James Kirkup in 1966.

A variety of English incorporating Japanese words or constructions; English heavily influenced by Japanese grammar or pronunciation.


Karley

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Rugian

From a certain Germanic tribe the territory of which comprised at some time also the territory of Rügen (Rugia).


Rugian

A member of a certain Germanic tribe the territory of which comprised at some time also the territory of Rügen (Rugia).


Rugian

The hypothetical East Germanic language once spoken by the Rugians.


Beothuk

(linguistics) The extinct language of these people.


Hungarish

One of them reader of Hungarish.

1799, Francis Peck, Desiderata Curiosa Or a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious:

(archaic) The Hungarian language; Magyar.


Jael

From the name of a minor biblical character, Hebrew יעל.

Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.


Sorley

From Scottish Gaelic Somhairle, from Old Norse Sumarliði.


Stetson

(hat): From Stetson, the brand of a manufacturer of felt hats founded by John B. Stetson.


Lyndon

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Sweeney

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Suibhne, from subha + -ne (pleasant). Compare McSweeney.


Sweeney

From Sweeney Todd, the name of a fictional character.

It turned out the police wouldn't raid the place until the Monday morning but in the meantime there were drinks to drink and drugs to take. Even Lettsbe and the Sweeney arrived and joined in the celebrations with us.
The police, however, did hit Jill's address early on Monday morning.

2018, Gary London, For the Love of Brass:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang) The Flying Squad, a branch of the London police service.


Arden

Derived from the Brythonic ardu meaning "high"

An unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina.


Hadley

From Old English hæð (“heath”) + Old English leah (“woodland clearing”). Equivalent to heath (compare Heath) + -ley.

suf

compare <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Heath</i>

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Wadsworth

en-proper noun

Wadsworth (countable and uncountable, plural Wadsworths)

From the Old English personal name Wæddi + -s- + worþ (“enclosure”).

(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname


Lawton

Lawton (countable and uncountable, plural Lawtons)

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English [Term?], from hlāw (“hill, ound”) + tūn (“homestead”) (-ton).

gloss

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">-ton</i>

(countable) A male given name transferred from the surname


Linwood

From Old English lind (“linden tree”) + Old English wudu (“woods, forest”).


Han character

Chinese character
Chinese character#English


Britlyn

Modern coinage from Brittany/Britney and names ending in Lyn.


Engganese

The Malayo-Polynesian language of Enggano Island.


Holden

‘Holden!’ Mrs Spencer said. ‘How lovely to see you! Come in, dear! Are you frozen to death?’ I think she was glad to see me. She liked me. At least, I think she did.

1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:


Poll

From Polly, by rhyming with Molly, from Mary.

"A gentleman, please Sir," said the blushing Mary, (or Poll as some unrespective and light-minded persons have misnamed her), and the gentleman entered.

1833 The Pilgrim Brothers [signed Timotheus Scribewell], Romances of Chivalric Ages, H. Cope, page iv

A diminutive of the female given name Mary.


Dimity

The given name is apparently from the name of the light cotton fabric, dimity. However, since it is found primarily as an Irish name, it may have originated as a feminine equivalent of Dermot.

1990, Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint), Friends at Thrush Green, 2002, page 98,
'Raffle books,' she announced.
'What for?' enquired Dimity, feeling for her purse and about to do a vicar's wife's familiar duty.


Novak

Usually from Czech Novák or Slovak Novák, but possibly also from Serbo-Croatian Nȍvāk, Slovene Novák, or Hungarian Novák.


Thatcherian

en-adj

Thatcherian (comparative more Thatcherian, superlative most Thatcherian)

more Thatcherian (comparative)
most Thatcherian (superlative)

Of or relating to Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), British prime minister.


Kimye

Continuing their romance (showmance? fauxmance? I don't even know any more), Kimye took their relationship show over to Canada, where Kim, 31, was hawking her new jewellery line.

2012 May 12, Clemmie Moodie, Sarah Tetteh, Ashleigh Rainbird, “Kanye looks grim”, in Daily Record, Scotland:

Kimye and their baby bump celebrated the start of a new year in Las Vegas.

2013 January 1, Ann Oldenburg, “Kim Kardashian, Kanye West welcome 2013”, in USA Today:

Meanwhile, it looks as though Kimye could be expecting a baby girl.

2013 April 6, Emily Hewett, “Gwyneth Paltrow defends pregnant Kim Kardashian: ‘I think she looks absolutely beautiful’”, in Metro:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.


Jerusha

Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 15:33:


Channing

en-proper noun

Channing (countable and uncountable, plural Channings)


Lyle

By this means she learnt their Christian names, Robert, and Lyle — the latter of which she admired very much, and thought it exactly suited the pretty, delicate younger brother.

1850, Dinah Craik, Olive, Chapman and Hall, page 147:


Chagossian

British Indian Ocean Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory

One of the previous inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory, who were deported by the British government in the late 1960s and early 1970s.


Joss

Angel (TV series)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Firefly (TV series)
Joss Whedon

Verb usage evolved from the name of Joss Whedon, creator of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.

A diminutive of the female given name Jocelyn.

A diminutive of the male given name Joseph.


intraterrestrial

(ufology) any of a race of sapient beings who live inside the Earth and operate UFOs


Timmy's

Now to end the past 7 days of hell I have gotten the wrong order at Timmy's!!!!!!

2001, WANDA BRAUGH, “ATTENTION DRIVE THRU EMPLOYEES”, in ott.singles (Usenet):

"Where do you want to go?" "Just down to Timmy's." She felt all Canadian-like, calling the Tim Hortons donut chain by the nickname the locals used.

Back in the car, I turned on the cruise control at a safe 110 kilometres an hour and, thanks to Timmy's donuts and coffee, I began to wake up.

2011, Ron MacLean, Kirstie McLellan Day, Cornered: Hijinks, Highlights, Late Nights and Insights:

(Canada, MTE, informal) Synonym of Tim Hortons


Damascene

en-adj

Damascene (comparative more Damascene, superlative most Damascene)

more Damascene (comparative)
most Damascene (superlative)

From Ancient Greek Δαμασκηνός (Damaskēnós). By surface analysis, Damascus + -ene. The sense “pertaining to a sudden and complete change in one's beliefs” refers to the conversion of St Paul to Christianity on the road to Damascus.


Damascene

From Ancient Greek Δαμασκηνή (Damaskēnḗ).

[...] how Alexander Jannaeus, after a treaty with a king in Petra who controlled the whole area from Elat to Damascene [...]


MoD

The MoD said the injured men received immediate medical attention and were evacuated by air to the military hospital at Camp Bastion, but three could not be saved. Next of kin have been informed. The other soldiers hurt are not thought to have life-threatening injures.

2013 May 1, Nicholas Watt, Nick Hopkins, “Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles”, in The Guardian:

Ministry of Defence
w:Ministry of Defence

(UK politics) Initialism of Ministry of Defence; also MOD.


Saoirse

/ˈsɪə(ɹ).ʃə/

/ˈsɜː(ɹ).ʃə/


Nedward

Either a rebracketing of mine Edward or a blend of Ned + Edward.

The time was, when every musical young gentleman breathed forth his wishes in dulcet strains to "be carried back to Old Virginia's shore," or related to the history and most wonderful exploits of that good old colored individual, "Uncle Nedward;" but we suppose this superannuated colored person has been superseded by the still more popular "Uncle Tom," of Mrs. Stowe celebrity.

1853, William Wallace Warden, Pen and Pencil, volume I, S.I, page 761:


Buddy

(rare, chiefly US) A male given name from English.


swamp gas

* (hydrogen sulfide): So called because it is often emitted from wetlands such as swamps as a result of anaerobic bacteria, and is responsible for their foul “rotten egg” odor.
* (ufology): An explanation given by then-skeptic J. Allen Hynek for an alleged UFO sighting in Michigan near Lake Huron in 1966.

(ufology, sarcastic) A skeptical explanation that is provided in order to debunk a UFO sighting that a believer regards as ludicrous, illogical or disingenuous.


Vegan

[…] James G. Scrugham (later to become governor of the state, and a congressman) and Vegans Roy W. Martin , James Cashman and E. W. Griffith.

1969, Nevada Highways and Parks, volumes 29-30, page 41:

Short for Las Vegan (“someone from Las Vegas”).


Rolanda

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


Betelgeusian

(science fiction) The language spoken by Betelgeusians.


Chud

From Russian чудь (čudʹ). Doublet of tuath.

In the meantime, the Chuds tied [her] foot so that she would not escape. When Liaine returned with his brother Aripi and son Peairi, he found the Sami camp smouldering and empty.

1998, Michael P. Robinson, Karim-Aly S. Kassam, Leif Rantala, Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika, Bayeux Arts Incorporated, →ISBN, page 76:

Some Chuds had attained a prominent position at the court of the early Russian princes. Military campaigns against the Chuds are mentioned in the chronicles from the 11th century. They were defeated by Prince Iaroslav Vladimirovich [...]

2015, Anti Selart, Livonia, Rus’ and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century, BRILL, →ISBN, page 62:

[...] turned to another region which paid tribute to Pskov, the land of the Chuds (Estonian Finns). [...] Iuriev or Tartu as it became known was nominally under a Chud elder called Vetseke but had a garrison from Pskov.

2016, Alexander Basilevsky, Early Ukraine: A Military and Social History to the Mid–19th Century, McFarland, →ISBN, page 159:

(historical, in early Russian annals, chiefly used in the plural) A member of any of several Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia.

tšuudi

a member of any of several Finnic peoples


Swabish

en-adj

Swabish (comparative more Swabish, superlative most Swabish)

more Swabish (comparative)
most Swabish (superlative)

(rare) Synonym of Swabian: of or related to Swabia in Germany.


Swabish

(rare) Synonym of Swabian: the dialect of German spoken in Swabia.


Swabish

(rare) Synonym of Swabian: a person from Swabia.


Merida

Uncertain. Possibly a coinage based on Mary, or transferred from the Spanish place name Mérida.

The defendants, Leonard Morgan, Felix Forman, William Poe, Steve Forman and Jim Hatchett Baker, Merida Smith, Tine Williams and Bud Tegarden, composed the Poe crowd […]

1920, Reports of civil and criminal cases decided by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, page 460:

Rachel Atkinson. […] Merida Smith. […] Nellie Myers.

1951, Albert Ross Hogue, Mark Twain's Obedstown and Knobs of Tennessee: A History of Jamestown and Fentress County, Tennessee, page 79:

QUEEN ELINOR — Merida, a princess does not place her weapons on the table.

2012, various authors, Brave (film), Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Noric

Noric (comparative more Noric, superlative most Noric)

more Noric (comparative)
most Noric (superlative)

Of or relating to the ancient region of Noricum.


Noric

A Celtic language, attested in only two fragmentary inscriptions from the Roman province of Noricum.


Picene

An extinct language spoken by the Picenes.


Tahirih

Baháʼí Baháʼí

A female given name from Persian used by Baháʼís.


Crimean Gothic

A Germanic, probably East Germanic, language spoken by the Crimean Goths in some isolated locations in Crimea until the late eighteenth century.

克里米亚哥特语

kèlǐmǐyà gētèyǔ


South Picene

an extinct Italic language spoken in what today is the Marches region of Italy


Araminta

I would sooner you wedded Araminta Bell than the most dowried heiress in this whole land.


Æthelred

/ˈæθ.əlˌɹɛd/

/ˈɛθ.əlˌɹɛd/

archaic spelling of Ethelred, a male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Aethelred

Ethelred

alternative typography of Aethelred, a male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Ethelred


Kri

A Vietic language spoken in parts of Laos.


Tanoan

A family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples in New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.


Salemite

Relating to, or characteristic of the Salem witch trials


Annaple

By this time Annaple, with a brow like a tragic volume, had hobbled towards him, and caught his horse by the bridle.

1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:


Nizar

A male given name from Arabic among Arabic people.


Trini

From a clipping of Katrina + -i (diminutive suffix).

Thirty years later, at a garden party in Aspen, I met a wonderful lady named Trini Barnes—Katrina McCormick Barnes. When she was young, her parents died and left her a good deal of McCormick wealth, but she had roughly the same attitude toward it as I did!

2004, Murray Gell-Mann, “My Father and Albert Einstein”, in John Brockman, editor, Curious Minds: How a Child becomes a Scientist, New York, NY: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 39:

A diminutive of the female given name Katrina.


Lumbee

Uncertain. Said to be first attested in reference to the tribe in 1914. Supposed by some to be of Siouan origin. Thought by others to have been coined by Turkey Tayac as a combination of Lumber (“a river that flows through the tribe's lands”) and Piscataway bee (“bend”).

A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.


Lumbee

The dialect (of English) spoken by the Lumbee people.


Elamitic

An extinct language spoken by the ancient Elamites.


EDL

The very Ballardian violence comes from rogue Salafist jihadists and their far-right counterparts, the Nativists (imagine the EDL with brains); […]

2015 September 8, Alex Preston, “Submission by Michel Houellebecq review – satire that’s more subtle than it seems”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The EDL said Saturday’s rally was aimed at highlighting what it describes as a “continued increase in Islamic terrorism” linked to Birmingham.

2017 April 8, Nicola Slawson, “Birmingham mosque counters EDL rally with ‘best of British’ tea party”, in The Guardian:

English Defence League
w:English Defence League

(UK politics) Initialism of English Defence League.


Karimui

The Dadibi language of Papua New Guinea.


Wergaia

(linguistics) An indigenous Australian language group in the Wimmera region of northwestern Victoria.


Carline

A blur of motion passed him, and he turned to find Carline standing in the room, a heavy cloak wrapped around her.

A female given name, variant of Caroline.


Bronlyn

A female given name originating as a coinage, of rare modern usage.


Theodosius

From Latin Theodosius, from Ancient Greek.


Yeardley

A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.


Vepsian

A member of the Finnic people who speak the Veps language.


Guale

Uncertain, has been connected to Creek wvhvlv (/wahála/, “south”).


Eldar

→ Russian: Эльда́р (Elʹdár)

Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien as Quenya Eldar, plural of Elda.

(science fiction) An elflike race of aliens from Warhammer 40,000, now known as Aeldari.

Эльда́р

magical humanoids from Tolkien's writings


Cappadocian Greek

a language formerly spoken in Cappadocia by Cappadocian Greeks


Rusian

From Rus + -ian, by analogy with Russian.

And finally, in keeping with the argument e silentio, one would be forced to conclude that the entire branch P of the Paterik Skitskij is of Rusian origin, i.e. that its chapters A–1 and B–G were added in Rusian translation to the body of chapters 2–22 and H–J transmitted in South Slavic manuscripts, so that the syntax, lexicon and morphology of the Story of the Merciful Nestor should be evaluated as Rusian.

1992, William Veder, The Merciful Nestor and Sozomen: Early Rusian Text Transmission in a Stratigraphic Perspective:

from or related to the medieval state of Kievan Rus


Mopan

A Mayan language spoken in Belize and Guatemala.


Cherie

A female given name originating as a coinage.


LeeRoy

A less common spelling variant of Leroy.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Karipúna Creole French

a French-based creole language spoken in northern Brazil


Gallaecian

Northwestern Hispano-Celtic, an extinct language of the Celtic family, spoken by the Gallaeci at the beginning of the first millennium CE in a north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula.


Abidjanian

Of or pertaining to Abidjan, the largest city of Côte d'Ivoire.


New Englander

/ˌnuː ˈɪŋɡləndə(ɹ)/


Achuar

Synonym of Achuar-Shiwiar (“a Jivaroan language”)


Zargari

From Persian زرگری (zargari, literally “of or pertaining to goldsmiths”), compound of زرگر (zargar, “goldsmith”) + ـی (-i).

uder

a secret language and sociolect based on Persian used by goldsmiths and some minorities of Iran, including Persian Jews


Zargari

From Persian زرگری (zargari, literally “of or pertaining to Zargar”), compound of زرگر (zargar) + ـی (-i).

a Balkan Romani dialect spoken primarily in the Zargar region of the Qazvin province of Iran


Gallaeci

An ancient Celtic people who inhabited Gallaecia.


Jerichoite

(rare) A Jerichoan: a native or inhabitant of Jericho.


Jerichoan

Jerichoan walls; a Jerichoan fall


Minceirtoiree

McDonagh traces the origins of Travellers back to at least the twelfth century by referring to Traveller-like characters in Irish mythology and emphasizing connections between Traveller language, referred to as Shelta, Gammon, Cant or Minceirtoiree, which literally means "Traveller Talk," and Old Irish.

2007, Colleen Anne Hynes, Strangers in the House: Twentieth Century Revisions of Irish Literary and Cultural Identity, Austin: University of Texas, page 147:

(Ireland) Shelta, a language spoken by Irish Travellers.


Traveller

The auctioneer said he had no animus against Travellers but that some headstones verged on “monstrous”.

2024 March 3, Rory Carroll, “‘A clash of cultures’: Irish opinion split over Travellers’ elaborate headstones”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(Ireland) Ellipsis of Irish Traveller; a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland.


Somalilander

From Somaliland + -er, analogous with Jubalander and Puntlander.


nomen loci

en-noun

nomen loci (plural nomina locorum or nomina loci)

nomina locorum (plural)
nomina loci (plural)


Muhsin

Borrowed from Arabic مُحْسِن (muḥsin, “charitable”).