Emirati

A person born in, or a citizen or inhabitant of, the United Arab Emirates.

A person descended ethnically from the Arab people of the United Arab Emirates.


Pippa

A female given name, diminutive of Philippa.


Ynez

A female given name from Spanish, a less common spelling of Inez.


Elysian

Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
Sebastiaen Vrancx

From Latin Elysium (from Ancient Greek Ἠλύσιον (Ēlúsion, “Elysium; an Elysian Field; one of the Elysian Fields”)) + -an (adjective-forming suffix).

der

Departed spirits do not however make a joyful and immediate entrance into these elysian fields, but must first slide for the space of five days, or, according to others, for a still longer period, down a rough rock, which the Greenlanders, by a strange contradiction, represent to be quite bloody.

1826, John Frederick Dennett, “The Second Voyage of Captain Parry”, in The Voyages and Travels of Captains Parry, Franklin, Ross, and Mr. Belzoni; Forming an Interesting History of the Manners, Customs, and Characters of Various Nations, Visited by Enterprising Travellers, London: Published by J. Jacques and W. Wright, 13, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 246:

But everyone that has lived a wicked life on earth, committed murder in his own nation, or been guilty of suicide, must pass by a different route to the Elysian fields. He has a steep precipice to climb, which gives him much pain and trouble; […]

1897, Alexander Henry, David Thompson, “Ethnography of Fort Vermilion”, in Elliott Coues, editor, New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry, Fur Trader of the Northwest Company and of David Thompson, Official Geographer of the Same Company 1799–1814: Exploration and Adventure among the Indians on the Red, Saskatchewan, Missouri and Columbia Rivers … In Three Volumes, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Francis P. Harper, →OCLC, part II (The Saskatchewan and Columbia Rivers), page 529:

Of or pertaining to Elysian or Elysium, the location.


Rico

A diminutive of the male given names Ricardo, Federico, or Enrico.


Avinash

From Hindi अविनाश (avināś, “indestructible”).


Alfreda

Originally a variant of Elfreda, used as a feminine form of Alfred since the 19th century.


Elfreda

From Old English Ælfþrȳþ (from ælf (“elf”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)); later partly merged with æþel (“noble”) + þrȳþ (“strength”) ( =Audrey).

inh

1914?, Jessie Graham Flower, Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
“When you are at Wayne Hall do as the Wayne Hallites do,” quoted Miriam, who had followed Elfreda into the room.

A female given name from Old English borne by a medieval English queen; rare today.


arr

Why against printers all this noise? This summoning of blackguard boys? Why so sagacious in your guesses? Your effs, and tees, and arrs, and eſſes? Take my advice; to make you safe, I know a shorter way be half.

a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “On the Irish Club”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VIII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 78:

Alternative form of ar; the name of the Latin-script letter R/r.


common name

(chemistry) A name that unambiguously identifies a substance but is not the IUPAC systematic name.


Reds

In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin russātī (“Reddish-Brown-Clads”) or factio russata (“the reddish-brown-clad faction”) and Byzantine Greek Ῥούσιοι (Rhoúsioi, “Reds”).

bor

(informal, politics) Synonym of Communist Party in various contexts.

Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism. According to this view, the emperor Anastasius, whose Monophysitism was notorious, should have been a Green, though contemporary evidence makes him a Red.

2002, James Allan Stewart Evans, The Age of Justinian..., p. 38

(informal, sports) Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly

(historical) The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore red.


Gideon

Borrowed from Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן (gid'ón, “Gideon”) ("feller", "hewer", "mighty warrior").

bor+

“He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission,” Gideon Lichfield, the Review’s editor-in-chief, explained Tuesday on Twitter.

2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost:

A male given name from Hebrew, popularized by Puritans.


Lucretia

A female given name from Latin. The feminine form of Lucretius.


Angelique

A female given name from French anglicized from French Angélique, occasionally used in English since the 20th century.


Afghanistani

An inclusive term used for all inhabitants of Afghanistan versus Afghan which is an ethnonym.


Mirandese

My example is taken from the Portuguese dialect of Mirandese, more specifically Mirandese as spoken in the area of Sendim[…]

1974, R. Joe Campbell, Mark G. Goldin, Mary Clayton Wang, editors, Linguistic studies in Romance languages: Proceedings, page 41:

An endangered Romance language spoken in the northeastern corner of Portugal, principally in the municipalities of Miranda do Douro and Vimioso.


Angeline

Boughton had christened her, as I said, but I laid my hand on her just to bless her, and I could feel her pulse, her warmth, the damp of her hair. The Lord said, 'Their angels in Heaven always see the face of my Father in Heaven' (Matthew 18:10). That's why Boughton named her Angeline.

2009, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Hachette UK, →ISBN:


Thea

Shortened from Dorothea and Theodora, ultimately from Ancient Greek θεά (theá, “goddess”).

A female given name from Ancient Greek (rather rare in English).


Dodie

A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.


Livvy

A diminutive of the female given name Olivia.


Gopala

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India, also anglicised as Gopal.


Govinda

From Sanskrit गोविन्द (Govinda, “finder of cows”).

der

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India; also transliterated as Govind.


Hildegard

Borrowed from German Hildegard in the 19th century; ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Hildigardu.


Hildegarde

A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Hildegard.


Guro

A language of the Mande family spoken in the Ivory Coast.


Zacharias

From Ancient Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías), the New Testament form of the figure's name in the Old Testament, Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”). Compare Zachariah and Zechariah.


Rafael

Compare Spanish Rafael, Portuguese Rafael.


Pyu

The Tibeto-Burman language of this people.


Quadi

(historical) A member of an ancient Germanic people who lived in Moravia.


cereology

From Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”) + -ology.

suffix

[…] the array of experts who have collaborated to found the Centre for Crop Circle Studies and co-author The Crop Circle Enigma, the parents of cereology […]

1990 October–December, New Scientist, volume 128, London: New Science Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61:

The result of all this has been to throw the world of cereology into a state of total confusion. All its previous certainties have been demolished.

1991, “Editorial notes”, in The Cereologist: The Journal for Crop Circles Studies, Shepton Mallet, Somerset: The Cereologist, OCLC 877349523, page 5; quoted in Gordon Stein, “Crop Circles”, in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996, ISBN 978-1-57392-021-6, page 185, column 1

Saucer enthusiasts argued that the cropland patterns marked the landing spots of UFOs bearing visitors from space. Believers in the paranormal claimed the circles radiated mysterious energy forces. The patterns spawned a kind of intellectual cottage industry: no fewer than 35 Britons claim to be experts on the phenomenon. A new scientific discipline, cereology, emerged. It is practiced by members of the Circles Effect Research Unit, a privately funded group headed by Wiltshire-based physicist Terence Meaden.

1991 September 23, Leon Jaroff, “It happens in the best circles”, in Time, archived from the original on 2016-11-11:

The world needed to be educated about the mysteries of cereology, and that knowledge base had not been disseminated widely enough for my more "unusual" theories to be accepted, or at least considered, with reason and open-mindedness.

2003, Colin Andrews, Stephen J. Spignesi, “The Path”, in Crop Circles: Signs of Contact, Franklin Lakes, N.J.: New Page Books, →ISBN, page 29, column 1:

The investigation, or practice, of creating crop circles.


Ganga

Transliteration of Hindi गंगा (gaṅgā) or Sanskrit गङ्गा (gaṅgā). Doublet of Ganges.


Volha

Во́льга Вольга#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian female given name Во́льга (Vólʹha).


Luwian

From Luwia, part of Asia Minor, + -ian. For the first element see Ancient Greek Λυδός (Ludós).

an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the 2nd millennium BC and recorded in both hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts.


Srimati

From Sanskrit श्रीमत् (śrīmat, “beautiful, charming, lovely, pleasant, splendid, glorious”).


Joselin

A female given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage, variant of Jocelyn.


Silvester

A male given name, variant of Sylvester.


Joumana

Borrowed from Arabic جُمَانَة (jumāna), meaning a perfect pearl.


Polabian

From the name of Polabian tribes, which in turn derives from the name of the Elbe river in Slavic languages (cp. Polish Łaba, Czech Labe), and possibly ultimately from Proto-Slavic *po.

A West Slavic language, extinct in the 18th century.


Ajay

Transliteration of Hindi अजय (ajay), etc.


Hillary

From Latin Hilarius or Hilaria, from hilare (“cheerfully”) (compare English hilarious).

On Friday, Meijer told CNN that he’s “not here to whine about the (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) coming in and meddling” in his race, referring to the House Democratic campaign arm spending spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads to boost Gibbs’ profile in hopes of a more favorable general election matchup. (Gibbs will face Democrat Hillary Scholten in November.)

2022 August 5, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Meijer says returning to Biden-Trump in 2024 would be ‘pretty sad commentary’ on country”, in CNN:

A unisex given name from Latin.
A female given name from Latin Hilaria.

A male given name from Latin Hilarius, variant of Hilary.


Yankunytjatjara

From Yankunytjatjara Yankunytjatjara, from yankunytja + tjara, literally 'having (the word) "yankunytja" (as opposed to the word pitjantja)'.

An Aboriginal language (or dialect), mainly spoken in central Australia and belonging to the Western Desert language group (or language), which in turn belongs to the Pama-Nyungan subfamily.


Wayuu

The Arawak language of the Wayuu people.


Mathilda

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Matilda.


Maudie

A pet form of the female given name Maud or Maude.


Tillie

Without reason, against prudence, and at a moment’s notice, he fell in love with a frivolous, golden-haired girl who used to tear about Simla Mall on a high, rough waler, with a blue velvet jockey-cap crammed over her eyes. Her name was Venner—Tillie Venner—and she was delightful.

1887, Rudyard Kipling, Wressley of the Foreign Office:

A diminutive of the female given name Matilda.


Norbert

From Old High German nord (“north”) + beraht (“bright”).

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

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

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Erwin

A male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Irwin.


fourpence

A former British silver coin, worth four pence.


Gita

en-proper noun

Gita (countable and uncountable, plural Gitas)

From Sanskrit गीता (gītā, “song”), sometimes in reference to Bhagavad Gita.

A female given name from Sanskrit, used in India.


Bohuslav

Bohu (“to God”) + -slav (“glory”) from Ukrainian Богусла́в (Bohusláv).

Богусла́в Богуслав#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Богусла́в (Bohusláv), equivalent to Bohuslav.


Oleg

Oleg (countable and uncountable, plural -s)

Borrowed from Old East Slavic Оле́г (Olég), a Varangian name, ultimately from Old Norse Helgi (“holy, sacred or blessed”). Cognate to modern Scandinavian Helge.

der

A male given name from the Slavic languages.


Galina

Borrowed from Bulgarian and Russian Гали́на (Galína), from Ancient Greek γαλήνη (galḗnē, “calm”), name of a Nereid and of early martyrs venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Гали́на Галина#Bulgarian

A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Russian female given name Гали́на (Galína).


Berliner

The first sense is either from German Berliner (“native or inhabitant of Berlin”) or formed in English from Berlin + -er. The second sense is from German Berliner (“doughnut”).


Scythian

The Eastern Iranian language of Scythians.


Chukchi

From Russian чу́кчи (čúkči), plural of чу́кча (čúkča), derived from Chukchi [script needed] (chauchu), meaning "rich in reindeer".

(uncountable) A Paleosiberian language spoken by Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.


JM

(UK politics, slang) Initialism of John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.


Lampung

A lect of the Indonesian province of Lampung, which is either a language with two main dialects, or a macrolanguage encompassing two or three separate languages, including Abung.


Ignatius

A saints' name from the Latin gens name Ignātius, Egnātius, of uncertain meaning, by folk etymology associated with Latin ignis (“fire”).
It might be related to Ancient Greek ἴγνης (ígnēs, “indigene”), ἴγνητος (ígnētos), from *ἔν-γνη-τες (*én-gnē-tes), formed from έν (én) + Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth, produce”), also seen in γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to come into being”).

der

A male given name from Latin; of mostly Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox usage in English.


Pampango

From Spanish pampango, from Kapampangan pampang (“river bank”) + -o.


Aiton

A Tai language spoken in India and written in a version of the Burmese abugida.


Cytherean

/ˌsɪ.ðəˈɹi.ən/

From Cythera, from Ancient Greek Κύθηρα (Kúthēra) + -an.

This view, that we see only a Cytherean cloud-canopy, has been confirmed by M. Landerer's observation of the non-polarised character of the light reflected by the crescent Venus; [...]

1893, Agnes M. Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century, page 314:

But we should hesitate in assuming that the cytherean skies are usually overcast, for the reason that if the greater heat stimulates evaporation, the converse process of precipitation would be slackened for the same reason.

1898, E. M. Antoniadi, “Notes on the Rotation Period of Venus”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 63, page 319:

long before we landed spacecraft on Venus scientists deduced the temperature of the cytherean surface by studying Venus's radio emission.

1989, Jay M. Pasachoff, Astronomy, from the earth to the universe, 5, page 171:

In fact, Soviet astronomers once thought that the thick, dense Cytherean atmosphere might not let any sunlight reach the surface.

1991, Kenneth R. Lang, Charles Allen Whitney, Wanderers in space: exploration and discovery in the solar system, page 78:

(uncommon) Of or pertaining to the planet Venus; Venusian.


Dror

From Hebrew דְּרוֹר (d'rór, “Dror, freedom, sparrow”).


Mycenaean Greek

The most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 11th centuries BC, written in Linear B script.


Rhodesian

“Take it easy, Tahm-boo,” your boss says, her Rhodesian accent returning inexplicably.

2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 289:

From, pertaining, or relating to Rhodesia or its people or culture.


Maddy

the Maddy (canonical)
Maddie (alternative)
Maddi (alternative)
Madi (alternative)
Mady (alternative)
Madie (alternative)

A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.

A diminutive of the unisex given name Madison.


Indochinese

(dated or historical) Of or pertaining to Indochina or its culture or people.


Pacific Islander

en-noun

Pacific Islander (plural Pacific Islanders)

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A person who resides in or originates from Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Niue, Cook Islands or any other Pacific island.


Papua New Guinean

Papua New Guinean (plural Papua New Guineans)

Citizen of Papua New Guinea or of Papua New Guinean descent.

Papoea-Nieu-Guinees

citizen of Papua New Guinea or of Papua New Guinean descent


Anatolian

An extinct group of Indo-European languages once spoken in Anatolia, including Hittite and Luwian.


Svetoslav

Светослав Светослав

A romanization of the Bulgarian male given name from the Slavic languages Светослав. Romanized diminutive/nickname: Svetlio.

bg:Светослав


Stefanos

Transliteration of Greek Στέφανος (Stéfanos), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Cognate with English Stephen.

Στέφανος Στέφανος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Στέφανος (Stéfanos).


Clementine

From French Clémentine, from Clément (“Clement”) + -ine (feminine suffix), from Late Latin Clēmens (genitive Clēmentis), from clēmens (“merciful”).

Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine!
Thou were lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry, Clementine.

1884, debated authorship, Oh My Darling Clementine (a ballad):

A female given name from Latin; feminine of Clement.


Roundhead

From round + head, from their short-cropped hairstyle.

(informal, historical) A supporter of parliament during the English Civil War.


Avinesh

A male given name from Sanskrit originating in India.


Swiss German

Today, it is probably true to say that both varieties have positive prestige but for different reasons and to differing extents: attitudes to Swiss German, as the unifying vernacular that gives the German-Swiss their identity, are positive in every respect, while Swiss standard German enjoys widespread prestige only as a written form that enables them to be part of the international German-speaking community […].

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

We do not intend this book to serve as a complete course in Swiss German; rather, it serves as a supplement to those studying the language in a more formal way.

2004, Harald Fuchs, Paul G. Schreier, Züritüütsch isch aifach schön, page xi:

The varieties of Alemannic German spoken in Switzerland.

Swiss Standard German
Swiss Standard German

(loosely) Any local form of the German language used in Switzerland; Swiss Standard German.


Swiss German

Swiss Germans (plural)
Swiss-German (alternative)

A German-speaking person from Switzerland.


Swiss German

en-adj

Swiss German (comparative more Swiss German, superlative most Swiss German)

more Swiss German (comparative)
most Swiss German (superlative)
Swiss-German (alternative)

Pertaining to the German-speaking part of Switzerland.

Two years ago, there was an uproar in the local media after Coop ran an advertising campaign that used the High German word for "to barbecue", grillen, rather than the Swiss German grillieren.

2014 February 14, Philip Oltermann, The Guardian:

Of or relating to one or all of the languages.


Ashlee

A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Ashley.


Ames

From the clipping of Amy + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

Brittany looked up, and Amy's arrival was finally noticed. “Hey, Ames,” Brittany said, waving from the corner of the couch.

2019, Jenn Gott, Who's Afraid of Amy Sinclair?:

A diminutive of the female given name Amy.


Athina

From Greek Αθηνά (Athiná), from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ). Doublet of Athena.

Lunch was waiting on the veranda along with Athina’s husband, Pericles.

2004, John Mole, “Bringing back Arcadia”, in It’s All Greek to Me! Ruins, Retsina, a Mad Dog… and an Englishman, London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, John Murray Press, published 2016, →ISBN:

‘It’s somewhere in Greece, not Venice,’ Nicola said slowly. ‘That’s where Steven’s friends lived. I’ve no idea who “N.K.” was, but it was probably his sister who Lavinia spent so much time hating. She even remembered the girl’s name – Athina.[…]’

2005, Sally Stewart, chapter 1, in Prospero’s Daughters, London; New York, N.Y.: Severn House Large Print, published 2006, →ISBN, page 11:

The Onassis–Niarchos antipathy intensified when Niarchos’ wife, Eugenia, was found dead at forty-three. Eugenia was the sister of Onassis’ first wife, Athina, from whom he was now divorced.

2021, Olivia Williams, “Static in the swinging sixties”, in The Secret Life of the Savoy: Glamour and Intrigue at the World’s Most Famous Hotel, New York, N.Y.: Pegasus Books, →ISBN:

Αθηνά Αθηνά#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Αθηνά (Athiná).


Eridian

(science fiction) a theoretical inhabitant of the dwarf planet Eris


Noreen

Anglicized from Irish Nóirín (diminutive of Nóra (“Nora”)).

der

diminutive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="ga">Nóra</i> (“Nora”)


Noreen

Anglicized from Arabic نُورٍ (nūrin, “light”, in the genitive case).


Norette

A female given name from Irish of Irish origin.


French Guianese

Of, from, or pertaining to French Guiana or the French Guianese people.


Maximus

Maximus Byzantinus. Contemporary with Maximus of Ephesus: Socrates H. E. III. 1 Μάξιμος ὁ φιλόσοφος, οὐχ ὁ Βυζάντιος ὁ Εὐκλείδου πατὴρ, ἀλλ᾽ ὁ ᾿Εφέσιος. Speaking of cir. A. D. 350. These two Maximi are confounded by Suidas p. 2396 BC.

1850, Henry Fynes Clinton, Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople. […], volume II (Appendix), Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the University Press, page 309:

[S]ix have references to other names, and then there are twenty-four different days of commemoration. The catalogue of Maximuses, of whom they are sixty-two recorded, is on a similar plan.

1881 July, “Article II. Smith’s Christian Antiquities.”, in The Southern Presbyterian Review, volume XXXII, Columbia, S.C.: […] Presbyterian Publishing House, page 433:

G.E. Ganss, Selected sermons of saint Maximus and saint Valerian’s homilies, FC 17, Washington 1965; F. Gallesio, Sermoni di s. Massimo di Torino, Rome 1975; Ed. and Eng. tr. B. Ramsey, The Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin, ACW 50 (1989). Studies supposing the identity of the two Maximi or referring uncritically to B. Bruni’s edition have a relative value.

1992, M. Pellegrino, translated by Adrian Walford, “MAXIMUS of Turin”, in edited by Angelo Di Berardino, Encyclopedia of the Early Church, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 549, column 1:

The company of men like the two Maximi, local landowner and provincial governor, may have deluded Julian into forming hopes which far outreached anything that could be achieved by anti-Christian legislation.

1993, Stephen Mitchell, Anatolia: Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor, volume II (The Rise of the Church), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 91, column 2:

Socrates carefully distinguishes Maximus of Ephesus from Maximus of Byzantium, and identifies him, pejoratively, as the philosopher who was executed by Valentinian for magic. Given the care with which he differentiates the two Maximi, it is curious that he wrongly attributes the execution to Valentinian rather than to Valens.

2003, D. F. Buck, “Socrates Scholasticus on Julian the Apostate”, in Byzantion, volume LXXIII, Brussels, page 303:

To men he felt he could trust—Bassus, the two Maximi, Felix, Evagrius, and Ablabius, for instance—he was willing to delegate great authority over long periods of time; […]

2013, David [Stone] Potter, “An Ordered Society”, in Constantine the Emperor, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 2015, →ISBN, part 8 (Ruler of the World), page 274:


Proto-Semitic

The hypothetical protolanguage of Semitic languages.


Moravian

en-adj

Moravian (comparative more Moravian, superlative most Moravian)

more Moravian (comparative)
most Moravian (superlative)

Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Morava river in Czech Republic, Europe.

Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Morava river in Serbia, Europe.


Moravian

A group of Slavic dialects spoken in the Moravia region, considered by some linguists to compose a language separate from Czech.


house of worship

en-noun

house of worship (plural houses of worship)

(religion) A religious edifice; a mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or similar place where believers go to practice their faith.


Issa

Until its independence in 1977, Djibouti was called the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas.

A member of a Somali clan, mainly residing in Djibouti; it is the larger of the two dominant ethnic groups.


Issa

Alternative form of Iswa (the Catawba, a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas).


Gibraltarian

The dialect spoken in Gibraltar, a mix of British English and Andalusian Spanish.


Llanito

From Spanish Llanitos (“people of the flatlands”), or from Italian Gianni (“Johnny”).

uder

A vernacular spoken primarily in Gibraltar, based on a mix of Andalusian Spanish and English, but also influenced by Genoese, Hebrew, Portuguese, Italian and Maltese.


Llanito

Spanglish

a generic term for English/Spanish interlanguage


Balochi

Baloci (alternative)
Baluchi (alternative)
Baluci (alternative)
Bilochi (alternative)
Billochi (alternative)
Billochee (alternative)
Buluchi (alternative)

A Northwestern Iranian language spoken mainly in SW Pakistan (80% of speakers), SE Iran and S Afghanistan. SIL standard divides Balochi into three related languages, Eastern Balochi, Southern Balochi and Western Balochi.


Eastern Balochi

A variety of the Balochi language, spoken mainly in Pakistan, where it has about 1.5 million speakers.


Southern Balochi

A variety of the Balochi language spoken mainly in Pakistan, where it has about 3 million speakers, and in Iran (0.5 million).


Western Balochi

A variety of Balochi language, spoken in Pakistan (more than 1 million speakers), Iran (0.5 million), Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.


Hedwig

From German Hedwig, from Old High German Haduwig, Hadwig, from Proto-Germanic *Haþuwīgą (from *haþuz (“fight”) + *wīgą (“battle”)).


Batt

* As an English surname, a pet form of Bartholomew.
* Also as an English surname, possibly from Old English batt (“cudgel”); see modern bat.
* As a German surname, from a derivative of Medieval Latin beatus (“blessed”).

(Ireland) A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.


Daveon

A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Davion.


Davion

The modern American usage is possibly transferred from the French surname Davion, based on a Provençal diminutive of David. It is not used as a given name in France.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Waldemar

Borrowed from German Waldemar in the 19th century. Compare Vladimir, from Slavic, and the Scandinavian name Valdemar.

If, as a stranger in our land, you should require the aid of other judgment to guide your own, we can only say that Alicia, the daughter of our gallant knight Waldemar Fitzurse, has at our court been long held the first in beauty as in place.

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


Hertha

From German Hertha (see that entry for more).

Hertha Ayrton

A female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from German around 1900.


Kamal

Transliteration of Arabic كَمَال (kamāl, “perfection”).


Kamal

Transliteration of Hindi कमल (kamal). Doublet of Kamala.


Old Persian

The oldest reliably dated citation is part of the Behistun inscription of Darius the Great (died 486 B.C.), which is given in transliterated Old Persian in the entry for Aryan.

2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 492:

The ancestor language of Middle Persian, and via it of New Persian language. Attested in Old Persian cuneiform, in the period 525 B.C.E. - 300 B.C.E..


Ch'orti'

The Mayan language spoken by these people.


Lancelot

en-proper noun

Lancelot (countable and uncountable, plural Lancelots)

Lancelots (plural)
Launcelot (alternative)

From Middle English Launcelot, from Old French Lancelot, from Frankish *Lanzo, hypocoristic form of names beginning in *Land-, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), and diminutive Old French endings -el and -ot.
Related to Old English Landbeorht (modern English Lambert).

(Arthurian legend) One of the Knights of the Round Table, a lover of Guinevere.

"What's the first name?" - - -
"I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!"
"Good God!" said Archie.
"It couldn't really be that, could it?"
Archie looked grave. He hated to give pain, but he felt he must be honest.
"It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker."

1921, P.G.Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, page 162:


astrict

en-verb

astrict (third-person singular simple present astricts, present participle astricting, simple past and past participle astricted)

astricts (present singular third-person)
astricting (participle present)
astricted (participle past)
astricted (past)

Latin astrictus, past participle of astringere. See astringe.

to astrict lands


Etna

Possibly an anglicisation of Irish Eithne.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Etna.


Everard

Variant of Everett, or from Old English eofor (“boar”) + heard (“hardy”).


Alabamian

Sunday was the day of the week most Alabamians wanted off for the two holy acts—going to church and watching football.

2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 24:

United States of America
United States of America

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


Raisa

Раи́са Раиса#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Раи́са (Raísa).

Раі́са Раіса#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian female given name Раі́са (Raísa).

Раїса Раїса#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name Раїса (Rajisa)


Artie

A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.


Arnie

A diminutive of the male given name Arnold.


Rapa Nui

/ˈɹɑːpɑː ˈnuːɪ/

Easter Island
Rapa Nui language
Rapa Nui people

An Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the inhabitants of Easter Island.


Lemuel

From Hebrew לְמוּאֵל (lemu'él, ləmūʔel, literally “devoted to God”).

uder

THE Author of theſe Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my antient and intimate Friend; there is likewiſe ſome Relation between us by the Mother's Side.

1726 October 28, Richard Sympson [pseudonym], “The Publisher to the Reader”, in [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page iv:

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Quai d'Orsay

A quay and street in Paris, France, the home of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


Number 10

No 10 (alternative)
No. 10 (alternative)
Number Ten (alternative)

There are honourable people in the government and principled advisers working in Number 10, even if their unheralded service is obscured by the crass antics of spin doctors and the demagoguery of some ministers.

2009 April 23, Bagehot, “Who's Nasty Now?”, in The Economist, page 61:

10 Downing Street
10 Downing Street#English

(UK politics) Synonym of 10 Downing Street.


Heraclitus

From Latin Hēraclītus, from Ancient Greek Ἡράκλειτος (Hērákleitos).

A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἡράκλειτος (Hērákleitos), notably borne by Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher.


Daryush

Transliteration of Persian داریوش (“Darius”).

A male given name from Persian, a rare transliteration.


Valentina

en-proper noun

Valentina (countable and uncountable, plural Valentinas)

A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Valentine.


Albertine

Borrowed from French Albertine. Variant of Albertina.

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Albertina

A feminine diminutive form of Albert. Latinate variant of Albertine.


Ethelbert

From Old English Æþelbeorht, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalberht. Compound of Old English æþele (“noble”) + beorht (“bright”). Doublet of Albert.

A male given name from Old English revived in the 19th century.


eightpence

[…] I went for a night to a lodging-house in Bow, where the charge was only eightpence.

1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

(historical, numismatics) A former coin worth eight pence; the monetary amount of eight pence.


Kosovar

en-adj

Kosovar (comparative more Kosovar, superlative most Kosovar)

more Kosovar (comparative)
most Kosovar (superlative)

A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, was shot dead outside his party offices Tuesday morning, halting talks between Kosovar and Serb delegates that had been set to resume that day.

2018 January 16, Milena Veselinovic and Sheena McKenzie, “Leading Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic shot dead outside office”, in CNN:


Kosovar

While it doesn't give the Albanian Kosovars the independence they crave, it would afford them three years of breathing room under international protection to practice being a state.

1999 March 22, Johanna McGeary, “Milosevic chooses defiance over compromise, and the military situation in Kosovo deteriorates”, in CNN:


Désirée

Desiree (alternative)
Desirée (alternative)


Enzo

Borrowed from Italian Enzo (equivalent to English Hank), from German Heinz, a diminutive of Heinrich (English Henry), from Old High German Heimrih, Haimirich (heim (“home”) + rihhi (“ruler”)), from Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks, from Proto-Indo-European roots.
Rare in the US and UK prior to 2003, popularized in the 2000s.


Baruga

A language spoken by about 2,000 people in Papua New Guinea


Kalamazooan

One who resides in or comes from Kalamazoo.


Japanner

Of the interior of the apartment we occupied, I shall say but little; that little, however, will help to complete the description of a Japanner's dwelling.

1868, William Dalton, Will Adams, the first Englishman in Japan: a romantic biography, page 39:


Ancient Macedonian

The Hellenic language of Ancient Macedonians, probably related to Ancient Greek, spoken in Macedon from 808 BCE till 168 BCE


Jerilyn

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a 20th century variant of Geraldine.


Jerrold

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a re-spelling of Gerald.


Gerry

Roger Federer extended his grasscourt streak to 57 matches with a victory over Marcos Baghdatis and will play Nicolas Kiefer in the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany.

2008 June 14, The Associated Press, “Federer Extends Streak”, in The New York Times:

A diminutive of the male given names Gerald and Gerard.

A diminutive of the female given name Geraldine.


kew

Alternative form: cue

The following telegram with explain this: "Your suggestion approved stop the troops proceeding to ex those to wye and zed and the detachment at kew must be completed to ten days rations."

1908, Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, Staff Rides and Regimental Tours, London: Hugh Rees, page 305:

the pardonable confusion for which some blame the cudgel and more blame the soot but unthanks to which the pees with their caps awry are quite as often as not taken for kews with their tails in their or are quite as often as not taken for pews with their tails in their mouths

1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber:

"As usual I got me pees an' kews mixed up."

2016, Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak, Titan Publishing:

The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.


Yehudit

Transliteration of Hebrew יְהוּדִית (y'hudít, “Judith”). Doublet of Judith.

My mother was called Yehudit by her Russian Jewish parents when she was born in England, but the intransigent Englishman in the registry office had changed it first to Judith and then to Edith ( "good English names" ) - leaving the resultant impression that Jews were not even allowed to keep their own names.

1994, Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty, page 61:


Melodie

A female given name from English, of rather rare usage, variant of Melody.


Patagonian

Patagonian (comparative more Patagonian, superlative most Patagonian)

more Patagonian (comparative)
most Patagonian (superlative)

/ˌpætəˈɡəʊni.ən/

Of or pertaining to Patagonia or its people, language or culture.


Eblaite

(historical) An extinct Semitic language spoken in the 3rd millennium BCE, primarily in the ancient city of Ebla, which is located in modern Syria. It was written in cuneiform script and is considered to be the oldest written Semitic language.


Silvanus

From Latin Silvanus, a Latin cognomen, from silva (“forest”). The name Silas, from the early Christian apostle, was Latinised as Silvanus by Paul.

A male given name from Latin, more often spelled Sylvanus, but never popular in either form.


Sylvanus

A male given name from Latin, variant of Silvanus.


Selwyn

From the Middle English form of Latin Silvanus. Also from the Old English given name Selewine, from sel (“hall”) + wine (“friend”). The places are named after bearers of the surname.

A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname, in quiet use since the 19th century.


Meaghan

A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan.


Becker

en-proper noun

Becker (countable and uncountable, plural Beckers)

Beckers (plural)
Baecker (alternative)
Beck (alternative)
Becke (alternative)
Beckert (alternative)

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


advocation

en-noun

advocation (countable and uncountable, plural advocations)

From Latin advocātiō. Doublet of advowson

(Scots law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.


Eugenia

From Ancient Greek Εὐγενία (Eugenía), feminine form of Εὐγένιος (Eugénios) ( =Eugene) "well born".

A female given name from Ancient Greek. Variant: Eugenie.


Eugenie

The name agreed upon the child was Eugenie Victoria, but that afternoon Melanie unwittingly bestowed a name that clung, even as "Pittypat" had blotted out all memory of Sarah Jane. — And Bonnie she became until even her parents did not recall that she had been named for two queens.

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:

A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Eugenia via French Eugénie.


Aurelia

Borrowed from Latin Aurēlia, the feminine form of the Roman gens name Aurēlius, from aureus (“golden”).


Ammonite

[ˈɛə̯mɪ̈nʌɪ̯t̚]


Ammonite

[ˈɛə̯mɪ̈nʌɪ̯t̚]

The extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people who used to live in modern-day northwest Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. Extinct since 5th century BCE.


Everton

en-proper noun

Everton (countable and uncountable, plural Evertons)

From Old English eofor (“wild boar”) + tūn (“settlement”).


Celine

From French Céline, from Latin Caelīna, derived from the Roman gens name Caelius, from caelum (“heaven”). Also a short form of Marceline, feminine diminutive of Marcel.


Celina

Variant of Celine, from French Céline, ultimately from Latin.


Clarisse

Borrowed from French Clarisse, from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa (“Poor Clare”); see there for more. Doublet of Clarissa and Clarice.


Coralie

Borrowed from French Coralie. Coined in France in the end of the 18th century, from Latin corallium (“coral”).

Rosalind savors of quips and hose, / Araminta of wits and beaux; / Prue of old puddings, and Coralie / All of sawdust and spangled shows;

~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19


Corinna

From Ancient Greek, probably from κόρη (kórē, “girl, maid, daughter”); compare kore.

1601, Thomas Campion, When to Her Lute Corinna Sings, A Book of Ayres, 2006, Jay Parini (editor), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, page 614,
When to her lute Corinna sings, / Her voice revives the leaden strings,


Corina

A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Corinna.


Clovis

Borrowed from French Clovis, from Frankish *Hlōdowig, the same Germanic source as French Louis, Dutch Lodewijk and German Ludwig, see there for further information. Doublet of Louis and Ludwig.
The New Mexican city was named after a Frankish king; the Native American site and culture were named after this city.

A male given name borne by several prominent people in Frankish/French and Germanic history.


Toni

"I'm not Toni any more. I'm Antonia." Sophy burst out laughing. "And I'm Sophia."

1979, William Golding, Darkness Visible, page 134:

A diminutive of the female given name Antonia, sometimes used as a formal given name.


Deric

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Derek.


Élisabeth

A female given name from French, equivalent to English Elizabeth.


Élise

A diminutive of the female given name Élisabeth.


Francine

What I needed was an exciting name and I would give myself one. I was reading a book where the heroine's name was Adrienne. I printed that as my first name. Now what would go well with Adrienne? I peered over my shoulder at the little girl in back of me. Her name was Mary Frances Carroll. Frances...I thought. No, that's not exotic enough. Francine. Francine. That was beautiful. I printed in: FRANCINE

1962, Jane Trahey, Life with Mother Superior, page 4:


Jeannine

From French Jeannine, from Jeanne + -ine, q.v. Sometimes also parsed as a diminutive of English Jean, Jeanne, &c.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.


Letitia

Name of an obscure Spanish saint, Leticia, from Latin laetitia "gladness".

A female given name from Latin, popular in medieval England; rather rare today.


Laetitia

A female given name from Latin, a Latinate spelling of Letitia.


Zander

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


Zealander

(informal) A resident or inhabitant of New Zealand; a New Zealander.


Old East Slavic

(historical) A Slavic language used from the 10th to the 14th centuries by East Slavs in the state of Kievan Rus and its successors. The ancestor of Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn and Ukrainian.

Old Ukrainian

specific to Ukrainian or dialects different from common OES

Old Belarusian

specific to Belarusian or dialects different from common OES


Rusyn

From Carpathian Rusyn руси́н (rusýn), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ, “Rus”). Compare Ruthenia.

A member of a people living in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, in part of western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland and north-eastern Slovakia.

(archaic) An ethnonym for East Slavic people - any of Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, an inhabitant of Kievan Rus, Muscovy, etc., an Orthodox, East Slavic inhabitant of Rzeczpospolita.


Rusyn

The Eastern Slavic language spoken by the Carpatho-Rusyns.


Rusyn

en-adj

Rusyn (comparative more Rusyn, superlative most Rusyn)

more Rusyn (comparative)
most Rusyn (superlative)

Of or pertaining to the Rusyn people, culture, or language.

русі́нскі

of or pertaining to the Rusyn people, culture, or language


CON

Conservative Party
w:Conservative Party (UK)

(UK politics) Abbreviation of Conservative Party.


Lew

When Lew Wasserman reinvented the studio system, leadership skills grew harder to find and the number of modern studio conglomerates boiled down to six, as discussed in chapters 15 to 20.

2019, Douglas Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System: A History, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:


Illyrian

Scholars divide the great bulk of the Slavic languages into two branches […] The south-eastern or eastern division contains the Russian, Bulgarian, and Illyrian languages

1855, “Europe”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, Eighth Edition, volume 9, page 391:

The Slavic dialect used was examined by a very gifted poet, Gion Palmotich (1606–1657) , who attempts to identify the Dalmatian or Illyrian language (i. e., Serbo-Kroatian) with the Czech of Bohemia, which had been recognized by Charles the Fourth, in his Golden Bull (1355), as necessary for imperial princes to learn.

1919, Paul Rankov Radosavljevich, Who are the Slavs? A Contribution to Race Psychology, pages 198–199:

The preface contains a defense of the Illyrian language and a list of the major Slavic “dialects” (Russian, Polish, Bohemian, Illyrian).

2016, Edward Stankiewicz, Grammars and Dictionaries of the Slavic Languages from the Middle Ages Up to 1850: An Annotated Bibliography, page 80:

(historical or obsolete) Of or in the Serbo-Croatian language.


Illyrian

An extinct Indo-European language or group of languages spoken in modern Southeast Europe, in the western half of the Balkan Peninsula.

(historical or obsolete) The Serbo-Croatian language.


Illyrian

(obsolete) A South Slav, especially a Croat, used in 17th-19th centuries.


Liddy

From Lydia + -y with phonetic respelling.

A pet form of the female given name Lydia.


Marielle

Mariel (alternative)
Mariele (alternative)
Mariela (alternative)
Mariella (alternative)
Mariell (alternative)


Roma

From Latin and Italian Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Rome and Rum.

A female given name from Latin of English-speakers.


Titanian

Titanean (alternative)
Titanic (alternative)

As whom the fables name of monstrous size, / Titanian or earth-born, that warred on Jove, […]

if Trafton's (1972) detection of Titanian H₂ is correct, ...

1974, McDonough & Brice, "The Saturnian 'Gas-Doughnut' Hypothesis", in A. Woszczyk, ed., Exploration of the Planetary System, p 484

The Titanian atmosphere consists predominantly of nitrogen gas, with only a few percent methane, the simplest organic molecule.

2006, Kevin W. Plaxco, Michael Gross, Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 238:

(astronomy) Of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.

the yin and the yang, or the Oberonic and the Titanian

2002, Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Biography, page 387:

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean faerie queen Titania

an isolated colony of Uranus' moon Titania, one of the diminishing vestiges of the Titanian Empire

1985, Piers Anthony, Bio of a Space Tyrant, vol. 3: Politician:

(astronomy) Of Titania, the largest moon of Uranus.


Titanian

Titanians (plural)
Titanean (alternative)
Titanic (alternative)

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


Callistoan

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Callisto


Maratha

/məˈɾaː.ʈʰə /


Viviane

From French Viviane, from Latin vivus (“living”).


Marleen

A female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Marlene.


Marla

American back-formation from Marlene, first used in the 1930s.


Rosaline

An elaborate form of Rosalie, or a simplified form of Rosalind.

And in her train there is a gentle lady;
When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,
And Rosaline they call her.

c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act III, Scene I:


Rosalyn

A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosaline.


Roslyn

A variant of Rosaline inspired by the Scottish place name Roslin or Rosslyn.


Rosanna

Blend of Rose + Anna, possibly also inspired by Roxana.


Europan

(science fiction, demonym) An inhabitant of the astronomical body Europa (either the moon of Jupiter or the minor planet of the Main Asteroid Belt).


Chancellor of the Exchequer

cabinet minister
cabinet minister#English

The official title held by the British cabinet minister, who is responsible for all governmental economic and financial matters, including the treasury.

財政大臣 /财政大臣

minister responsible for governmental finances and treasury


Numidia

From Latin Numidia, from Numida + -ia, from an earlier interpretation of Ancient Greek Νομάς (Nomás) (genitive Νομάδος (Nomádos)). Compare Latin Nomas, whence English nomad.


Soviet

From Russian сове́т (sovét), сове́тский (sovétskij).

The major obstacle to a border settlement is the status of Heixiazi, a 330-square kilometer island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. The island is claimed by the Chinese but controlled by the USSR. Because Heixiazi overlooks Khabarovsk as well as the point where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Amur River, the Soviets are reluctant to give it up.

1991, Donald S. Zagoria, “The Changing Role of the Soviet Union in the Pacific”, in Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin F. Laird, editors, Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 678:

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

A citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.


Liza

A diminutive of the female given names Eliza or Elizabeth, from Hebrew.


Lissy

A diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth.


Manal

A female given name from Arabic, used in Arab countries.


bopomofo

Borrowed from Mandarin ㄅㄆㄇㄈ (bōpōmōfō), from the first four letters: ㄅ (bō), ㄆ (pō), ㄇ (mō), ㄈ (fō).

Name for Zhuyin Fuhao used by ISO and Unicode.


Narayana

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Mesopotamian

Formed as Mesopotamia + -an. Compare the French mésopotamien.

Mesopotamian marshlands return to life as they become officially recognised as Iraq’s first national park.

2013 Autumn, Veronique Mistiaen, “Iraq’s first national park approved” (main, front-page article) in Positive News, issue 77, page 1, sub-headline


Eurydice

From Latin Eurydicē, from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).

That same week, a twenty-two-year-old comedian named Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered as she walked home after work.

2019, Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys:


Euphrosyne

Translingual: Euphrosyne

From Ancient Greek Εὐφροσύνη (Euphrosúnē).

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Zhuyin fuhao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 注音符號 /注音符号 (zhùyīn fúhào, literally “symbol(s) for annotation of sounds”).

bor

A phonetic alphabet used to transcribe Mandarin for students of that language and for inputting Chinese, now used primarily only in Taiwan. Variants also exist for other Chinese lects spoken in Taiwan.

注音符号

ちゅういんふごう, chūin fugō, ちゅうおんふごう, chūon fugō


Indo-Aryan

Such a situation is not unusual in the history of languages, but Indo-Aryan has a very virulent case of the disease.

1969, Gordon H. Fairbanks, “Comparative Indo-Aryan”, in Thomas A. Seboek, editor, Current Trends in Linguistics, volume 5, Linguistics in South Asia, page 40:

This is another way in which a depiction of the historical developments in Indo-Aryan bears on the theory of phrase structure generally, and on the rise of adpositional phrases in Indo-European specifically, showing us alternative pathways of change.

2016, Uta Reinöhl, Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan, →ISBN, page 9:

Indo-Aryan has a very long history of attestation, from around 1400 bc to the present […]

2017, John J. Lowe, Transitive Nouns and Adjectives: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan, →ISBN, page 53:

A branch of Indo-Iranian and thus Indo-European language family, with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million, chiefly in South Asia.


Baltic-Finnic

Estonian and Finnish are both Baltic-Finnic languages.

(linguistics) Pertaining to the Baltic-Finnic languages.

Finnic

pertaining to the Baltic-Finnic languages


Dickson

Dixion (alternative)
Dixon (alternative)


Mauritian Creole

The creole language spoken in Mauritius, stemming from French, with some vocabulary from diverse sources such as English and Portuguese.


Remus

A male given name from Latin, rare in English.


Angloromani

A mixed language spoken in Britain, having an English-based grammar and Romani-based lexicon.

Angloromani

mixed language with an English-based grammar and Romani-based lexicon


Argobba

(linguistics) An Ethiopian Semitic language spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa by the Argobba people.


structural formula

en-noun

structural formula (plural structural formulas or structural formulae)

structural formulas (plural)
structural formulae (plural)

(chemistry) Any of various diagrammatic representations of the structure of a molecule that shows how its atoms are linked to each other, with what type of bonds, and the presence of any charges


Aron

A male given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Aaron.


Lenape

Endless generations of Lenape stretching down the lines of the past—changed, though not destroyed, by colonialism.

2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 299:

A group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.


Lenape

The languages (Munsee, Unami) spoken by all of this group; Delaware

The language spoken in the southern range of this group in coastal Delaware, southern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania; Unami.


Oona

Borrowed from Irish Úna; doublet of Una.

The bright one I was now about to meet. Oona O'Neill! Her name sounds like a spring breeze - as ethereal and lovely as the girl herself.

1960, Charles Chaplin Jr., N. Rau, M. Rau, My Father, Charlie Chaplin, Random House, page 270:


Adah

From Hebrew עָדָה (adá, “Adah”, literally “ornament, dawn”).


circumduction

en-noun

circumduction (countable and uncountable, plural circumductions)


Papuan

en-adj

Papuan (comparative more Papuan, superlative most Papuan)

more Papuan (comparative)
most Papuan (superlative)

From, or pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea

Pertaining to the Papuan group of languages.


Papuan

A geographical grouping of languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and its neighboring islands, as opposed to Austronesian.


Tritonian

(Greek mythology) Of or pertaining to the classical Greek god Triton.


Marylander

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


Germanophone

Germanophones (plural)
germanophone (alternative)


Avalon

From Latin Avallōnia and īnsula Avallōnis, from Proto-Brythonic *aβaln (“apple tree”), from Proto-Celtic *abalnā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

(Arthurian legend) An island, represented as an earthly paradise in the western seas, to which King Arthur and other heroes were carried at death.

Avalon

earthly paradise in the western seas, in the Arthurian legend


Smithereen

From the name of the city, after Sir A. W. Smithers (1850–1924), chairman of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Influenced by smithereens?

(Canada) A native of Smithers, British Columbia.


Dungan

From Turkic [Term?], probably via Russian, originally referring to any Hui Chinese. It is an exonym. Chinese scholar Lin Tao (林涛) lists possible etymologies in the first chapter of Donggan yü lungao (东干语论稿, 2007):
* From Chinese 東甘 /东甘 (dōng Gān, literally “Eastern Gan[su]”).
* From Chinese 敦煌 (Dūnhuáng, “Dunhuang”, in Gansu).
* From Chinese 潼關 /潼关 (Tóngguān, “Tong Pass”, in Gansu), early site of Bai Yanhu's activity.
* From Turkic [Term?] (turupqaighan, literally “staying behind”).
* From Chinese 東岸 /东岸 (dōng'àn, literally “eastern coast; or perhaps, eastern side”), in reference to the Fen River.
Hai Feng (海峰) proposes in a 2005 paper (https://www.cnki.com.cn/article/cjfdtotal-saga20050100e.htm) that it is from Chinese 屯墾 /屯垦 (túnkěn), from late Qing policy regarding Xinjiang.

cog

Tungan (alternative)
Tungani (alternative)
Dungani (alternative)

The Sinitic language of this people, a Mandarin dialect written in the Cyrillic script.

хуэйзў йүян

回族語言／回族语言 (huízú yǔyán)


marabout

From French marabout, from Portuguese maraboto, marabuto, from Moroccan Arabic مْرَابِط (mrabeṭ) (standard Arabic مُرَابِط (murābiṭ, “soldier stationed in fortified outpost”)).

one of their principal targets was the marabouts – or holy men and leaders of mystic orders – whom they accused both of corrupting the faith by their espousal of mysticism and of being the ‘domestic animals of colonialism’.

1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 38:

(Islam) A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa.


Cosmo

Borrowed by Scotland from Italy in the 18th century. An Italian variant of Cosimo, from the name Cosmas of a saint (martyred with his brother Damian in the fourth century), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “order, ordered universe”).


Carley

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Carly.


SEU

Social Exclusion Unit
w:Social Exclusion Unit

(UK politics, historical) Initialism of Social Exclusion Unit.


Bobbi

Bobby (alternative)
Bobbie (alternative)

“We're here to check the locks,” Valdez said. “Bobbi thinks someone may have been hanging around here this morning before you came on duty.”

A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.


Candi

A diminutive of the female given name Candace.


Bremer

Borrowed from German Bremer, equivalent to Brem(en) + -er.


Davie

A diminutive of the male given name David.


Vinnie

A diminutive of the male given name Vincent.

A diminutive of the female given name Lavinia.


Lavinia

Latin Lavinia, of obscure meaning. Lavinium was a town in ancient Latium.

A female given name from Latin used since the 17th century. It was fairly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, but rare today.


Moe

A male given name; diminutive of Moses and Maurice.


first minister

first ministers (plural)
First Minister (alternative)

The Welsh first minister has defended his decision to travel to Qatar for the World Cup, saying he feels that the citizens of Wales want their country’s leader there despite concerns about human rights and working conditions.

2022 November 20, Steven Morris, “Welsh first minister defends trip to World Cup in Qatar”, in The Guardian:

Yousaf is almost certain to be confirmed as Scotland’s next first minister in a nominal vote at Holyrood on Tuesday but now has to bridge those divides by bringing the SNP’s warring wings together.

2023 March 27, Severin Carrell, Libby Brooks, “Humza Yousaf elected leader of Scottish National party”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK politics) A leader of a devolved government such as Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland.


Pathan

Borrowed from Hindustani پٹھان / पठान (paṭhān). Doublet of Pashtun.

After long deliberation about the choice of nations, I became a “Pathán.”

1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, pages 44–5:

(British India, South Asia) Synonym of Pashtun; a member of the Pashto-speaking people of today’s north-west Pakistan and south-east Afghanistan.


Lydian

An extinct Indo-European language in the Anatolian subgroup.


Carian

/ˈkɛː.ɹɪ.ən/

/ˈkɛə.ɹɪ.ən/


Biddie

A diminutive of the female given name Bridget.


Biddy

"Was I absurd?" said Biddy, quietly raising her eyebrows; "I am sorry for that; I didn't mean to be. I only want you to do well, and to be comfortable."

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:


Bradly

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Aylmer

From Old English Æþelmǣr, from æþel (“noble”) + mǣre, mær (“famous”). Doublet of Elmer.

(rare) A male given name from Old English.


Flo

A diminutive of the female given names Florence or Flora.


Finnian

From Irish, variant of Fionnán; see fionn (“fair”).


Fredrick

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Frederick.


Gregg

A diminutive of the male given name Gregory.


Isadora

A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Isidora.


Cariban

portmanteau agreement
portmanteau agreement

Of or relating to languages of the Cariban family, a family of Amerindian languages spoken in northeastern South America, characterized by small phonemic inventories, split ergativity, broadly left-branching word order (SOV and OVS, with postpositions), portmanteau agreement, and marking of possession on the possessed noun.


Gena

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gena.

A female given name, a rare variant of Gina or short form of Genevieve.


Junie

Junie Cobb, Junie Chatman

A pet form of the male given name Junius.

A pet form of the female given name June.


Keziah

Borrowed from Hebrew קְצִיעָה (Qəṣî‘āh).

bor

Hebrew קְצִיעָה (Qəṣî‘āh)

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Kezia.


Kezia

From Hebrew קְצִיעָה (“cassia tree”). Compare cassia.


Czechoslovak

en-adj

Czechoslovak (comparative more Czechoslovak, superlative most Czechoslovak)

more Czechoslovak (comparative)
most Czechoslovak (superlative)

The thieves got away with very little money, however—about 10 German marks, a few Czechoslovak crowns, and some 10 Belgian francs—so the share-out between four of them would be very small and disappointing.

1943 September and October, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1934)—IV”, in Railway Magazine, page 288:

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Czechoslovakia or its people.


Bronwyn

Bronwyn Bishop, b. 1942


Shavon

A 20th-century phonetic spelling of Irish Siobhán.


Shavonne

Anglicization of Irish Siobhán as pronounced in modern Irish, under probable influence from Yvonne.


Lakeisha

An African-American creation from the 1970s, possibly La- + Keisha.

Lakeshia (alternative)
Lakesha (alternative)
Lakisha (alternative)
Laquisha (alternative)

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


Lawrie

A diminutive of the male given name Lawrence.


Letty

He has a study on the top-floor and Aunt Letty says I must never go up there.

1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:

A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.

A diminutive of the female given name Lettice.


Dharruk

A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.


Ima

(dated) A formerly common Anglo-American given name.


Han Chinese

See Han for more historical information.

About 98 per cent of Taiwan's inhabitants are Han Chinese, a diverse mix of ethnic and linguistic groups, including Hakka, Cantonese and Fujianese, who came from China's southern coast. Taiwan's other two per cent are from one of the nine indigenous tribes, which are scattered throughout the island but largely concentrated along the east coast and in the Central Mountain Range.

2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, in The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103, column 2:

Referring to the largest ethnic group native to China.

漢族的 /汉族的

referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China


Han Chinese

Lueyang county is a mountainous county located in the Qing mountains in the far south of Shaanxi province, far from Xi'an, on the borders of Sichuan and Gansu provinces. It has a relatively small population—about 200,000. Before the Tang dynasty, Lueyang was occupied mostly by minority Chinese, who were defeated by the Han Chinese, and most were forced to migrate to other places.

2007, Marcus W. Feldman, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Shuzhuo Li, Xiaoyi Jin, Nan Li, “Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China”, in Anne H. Gauthier, C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Shripad Tuljapurkar, editors, Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations: Riding the Age Waves, volume 2, Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 144:

The largest ethnic group native to China.

ဟန်လူမျိုး

the largest ethnic group native to China


confiteor

From Latin cōnfiteor (“I confess”), the first word of the prayer and used as its title in Ecclesiastical Latin. Doublet of confess.

“Pugh!” she said. “You are disgusting! Go into the chapel now and say a confiteor each for your sin.”

1967, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 240, page 80:

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) A prayer, typically beginning “I confess to Almighty God…” in English, in which public confession of sins is made.


Amira

From Arabic أَمِيرَة (ʔamīra, “princess”).

A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Amir


Yabim

Jabem (alternative)
Jabim (alternative)
Yabem (alternative)

The Malayo-Polynesian language of the Yabim people.


Hany

Borrowed from Arabic هَانِيّ (hāniyy), meaning "one who lives in happiness and tranquillity"; "the embellisher"; or "luscious".


Lindie

A pet form of the female given names Linda and Lindsay.


Lindy

Lindy herself hated the name Lindy. She said it sounded like a girl in pink gingham. At the beginning of this school year she'd started making all the teachers address her by her full name, Linnet.

2004, Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage, →ISBN, page 105:

A pet form of female given names, such as Linda.


Madge

Fie upon Caroline, Madge, Amelia - / These I reckon the essence of prose!

~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19

A diminutive of the female given name Margaret or, rarely, Madonna.


Marcos

From Romance (Spanish Marcos and Portuguese Marcos).

Roger Federer extended his grasscourt streak to 57 matches with a victory over Marcos Baghdatis and will play Nicolas Kiefer in the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany.

2008 June 14, The Associated Press, “Federer Extends Streak”, in The New York Times:

A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English Mark.


Ter Sami

One of the languages spoken by the Sami people, now moribund.


Kemi Sami

One of the languages once spoken by the Sami people, now extinct.


Akkala Sami

A language, once spoken by the Sami people, that became extinct in 2003.


Dianna

A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Diana.


Leighton

Various place names in England, Old English leac (“leek”) + tun (“settlement”), also in the sense of a herb garden.

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Mara

From Hebrew מָרָא (mara, “bitterness”), derived from Hebrew מַר (mar, “bitter”). The modern given name may also be shortened from Maria or Tamara.

Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:20:


Marty

'Martin', Martin said.
'Marty', she said, smiling at him. He didn't correct her mistake. No one had ever called him Marty before. He liked the way 'Marty' seemed a more entertaining man than he knew himself to be.

2006, Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn, Black Swan, published 2007, →ISBN, page 248:

A diminutive of the male given names Martin or Marten.

A diminutive of the female given name Martha, or less often, of Martina.


Myles

Myles (plural)
Myleses (plural)
Miles (alternative)

A male given name from the Germanic languages. Alternative spelling of Miles, a less common one.


Proto-Afroasiatic

(linguistics) The hypothetical ancestor language or protolanguage of Afroasiatic languages.

proto-afro-asiatique

ancestor language of Afroasiatic languages


Marianna

"Marnie?" she said slowly, reading the name on the cover. "But how did you know? Marian was always called Marnie-" ( - - - )
"She was called Marianna," Gillie said, "after her great-grandmother. Marnie was so pleased about that! And of course it is a lovely name. It had a Spanish sound about it too, which pleased the father."

1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, pages 250, 265:


Ghotuo

A language in the Niger-Congo language family, spoken in the Edo State region of Nigeria.


Sarasvati

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Kyivan

From Kyiv + -an, from Ukrainian Ки́їв (Kýjiv).

Kyïvan (alternative)
Kyjivan (alternative)
Kyyivan (alternative)
Kievan (alternative)
Kievian (alternative)

Of or associated with the city of Kyiv (the capital city of Ukraine).


Anson

From Ann + -son (the former word is a diminutive).

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Nathanael

From Ancient Greek Ναθαναήλ (Nathanaḗl), from Biblical Hebrew נְתַנְאֵל (Netan'el, literally “God has given”).

der

A male given name from Hebrew; more common in the form Nathaniel.


Noeleen

A female given name from French, a 20th century variant of Noelle.


Noelene

A female given name from French, a 20th-century variant of Noelle.


Ryann

A female given name, a less common spelling of Ryan.


Roxana

From Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē) of Old Persian or Bactrian origin. Akin to Persian روشن (rowšan).


Roxane

From French Roxane, from Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē), from Old Persian *rauxšnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Luna.

Roxana (alternative)
Roxanne (alternative)

Your name is like a golden bell
Hung in my heart; and when I think of you,
I tremble, and the bell swings and rings - "Roxane!"
"Roxane!"...along my veins, "Roxane!"

1897, Edmond Rostand, translated by Brian Hooker, Cyrano de Bergerac, published 1923:


Randal

A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Randall.


Ananias

From Ancient Greek Ἀνανίας (Ananías), from Hebrew חֲנַנְיָה (khananyá).


Suyog

From Sanskrit (meaning "favourable juncture", "good opportunity" and "Auspicious time") from su- (best, very) and yoga (juncture).

A male given name from Sanskrit used in Nepal.


Dhanish

A male given name from India, of Indian usage.


Celtiberian

Celtiberians (plural)
Celt-Iberian (alternative)

Celtiberian
Celtiberian language
Celtiberians

A member of a Celtic people living in the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly in what is now north central Spain, before and during the Roman Empire.


Celtiberian

Celtiberian
Celtiberian language
Celtiberians
Celtic languages

An extinct Indo-European language of the Celtic branch spoken by these people in an area of the Iberian Peninsula lying between the headwaters of the Duero, Tajo, Júcar and Turia rivers and the Ebro river.


Rosaleen

Anglicized from Irish Róisín, a diminutive of Rose.

It had all been rather sudden, but he was sure we should all soon grow very fond of Rosaleen (such a very theatrical name, don't you think, dear? I mean definitely rather bogus.)

1948, Agatha Christie, Taken at the Flood, HarperCollins, published 2002, →ISBN, page 34:


Roxanna

A female given name from Persian, variant of Roxana.


CeeCee

A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.


Intertubes

the Intertubes (canonical plural)
Intertube (alternative)
intertube (alternative)
intertubes (alternative)

Blend of Internet + tubes. Inspired by the famous "series of tubes" analogy used on June 28, 2006 by then United States Senator Ted Stevens to describe the Internet.

Nameserver administrators also provide email forwarding, which is the equivalent of call-forwarding on the Intertubes.

2007, David Gewirtz, Where have all the emails gone? (citing a March 30, 2007 blog post on Corrente Wire), Zatz, p. 95

(If you missed my musings, you can find them on the Intertubes here [link removed])

2008 January, Rik Myslewski, “Deep Tech - Multicore Management”, in Mac Life, volume 2, number 1, page 17:

Go on out to the wilds of the Intertubes and have a look: there are approximately 8,234,58721 vegan food blogs […]

2009, Bob & Jenna Torres, Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, 2nd edition, PM Press, page 52:

(chiefly Internet slang, humorous) The Internet.


Middle Welsh

The Welsh language as spoken from the 12th to the 14th century.


Tamra

A female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling of Tamara.


Tisha

A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.


Teri

A spelling variant of Terry, from Teresa.

'What's your name, by the way?'
'Teri.'
'Terry?'
She spelt it for him. 'But you can call me Miss Teri.'
Rebus smiled. 'I'll assume that's an assumed name. Maybe I'll see you around, Miss Teri.'

2003, Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood, Orion, →ISBN, page 34:

A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.


Terrie

A female given name; a spelling variant of Terry, diminutive of Teresa.


Tyron

A male given name transferred from the place name, of rare American usage, variant of Tyrone.


Vaughan

Borrowed from Welsh Vychan, from bychan, diminutive of bach (“little”).

Faughn (alternative)
Vaughn (alternative)
Vaughns (alternative)

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Santali

The Austroasiatic language spoken by the Santals.


Oonagh

Variant spelling of Oona, Una, Anglicized from Irish Úna.


Vergil

A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Virgil.


Alesha

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Ericka

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Erica and Erika.


East Slav

A member of the East Slavic peoples, including the Belarusians, Russians, Rusyns, and Ukrainians.


East Slavic

Of or relating to the East Slavs, their culture or language(s).


Sherlock

Supposedly from an Old English scir-locc (“bright-lock”).
One of a group of surnames originally denoting hair colour, parallel to Blacklock, Harlock (Old English har (“grey”)), Silverlock.
In the computing verb sense, refers to the software Sherlock, which in 2002 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called Watson.

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


Aditya

A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India and Nepal.


Barack

Anglicized spelling, used by Luo speakers, of Barak, ostensibly as an Old Testament name. A cognate of the biblical Baruch.

"What did Marcus call you just now? Some African name, wasn't it?" "Barack." "I thought your name was Barry." "Barack's my given name. My father's name. He was Kenyan." "Does it mean something?" "It means 'Blessed'. In Arabic. My grandfather was a Muslim."

1995, 2004 Barack Obama, Dreams from my Father, Crown Publishers (2004), page 104


Sienese

en-adj

Sienese (comparative more Sienese, superlative most Sienese)

more Sienese (comparative)
most Sienese (superlative)
Siennese (alternative)

Of or pertaining to Siena in central Italy, or its school of painting in the 13th and 14th centuries.


Vesuvian

One who inhabits the area around Mount Vesuvius.


Barbra

A female given name from Latin, a nonstandard spelling of Barbara. Associated with Barbra Streisand, who changed the spelling of her name from Barbara.


Sierra Leonean

Sierra Leoneans (plural)
Sierra Leonian (alternative)


Eveleen

A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn.


Jacquelyn

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 from French, one of the spelling variants of Jacqueline.


Ramona

Ramona (disambiguation)#Places
Ramona (name)


Constantin

From Latin Cōnstantīnus, the name of Roman emperors, Latin cōnstāns (“constant, steadfast”). Doublet of Konstadinos.


Cloe

A female given name from Ancient Greek, an alternative spelling of Chloe


Arron

A male given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Aaron.


Sofya

Alternative spelling of Sophia, A female given name.


Juana

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


Trina

A diminutive of the female given name Katrina, from Ancient Greek.


Gutnish

From Swedish gotländsk (“from Gotland”). Equivalent to Got(land) + -ish.

The native language of the island of Gotland in present-day Sweden, used both as a spoken and written language until late medieval times.


Angevin

Angevins (plural)
Angevine (alternative)


Denverite

The native Denverite decided to go to University in Boulder.

The latest facilities include a new C. B. & Q. westbound express, called the Overnite Denverite, covering the distance in 17 hr. 20 min., and an acceleration of the C. & N. W.-U. P. westbound Columbine to the same figure.

1939 September, “Overseas Railways: More American Accelerations”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:


Linus

From the name of the second pope, Latin Linus, Ancient Greek Λῖνος (Lînos), of uncertain meaning.

Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

Yes, my children are Peanuts characters. Charlie, seven, and Lucy, five, were given their names without thought or reference to the comic strip. Charlie was named after Bob's grandfather and we both just liked the name Lucy. Then, when I was unexpectedly expecting again, […]
"I'd go with Schroeder," a work colleague offered. "No, definitely Linus. Or Woodstock," said another. It was only then that I realized the pattern we'd started with our first two kids. And I liked the name Linus.

2011, Lisa Genova, Left Neglected, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 8–9:


Thaddaeus

en-proper noun

Thaddaeus (countable and uncountable, plural Thaddaeuses)

Thaddaeuses (plural)
Thaddæus (alternative)

From Latin Thaddaeus, from Ancient Greek Θαδδαῖος (Thaddaîos).

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek; usually spelled Thaddeus.


Thaddeus

"You must call me 'Thaddeus,' Hazel Jones. Better yet, 'Thad'. 'Mr. Gallagher' is for servants and other hirelings."
When Hazel made no reply, Thaddeus learned toward her suggestively: "Will you call me 'Thad'? It's very like 'Chet', - eh? Almost no one calls me 'Thad' any longer, my old friends are falling away - every season, like dying leaves."

2007, Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter, Fourth estate, →ISBN, page 503:

A male given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Thaddaeus.


Thad

A diminutive of the male given names Thaddeus or Thaddaeus, sometimes also used as a formal given name.


Nicodemus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νῑκόδημος (Nīkódēmos), from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Theophilus

/θiːˈɒfɪləs/

Ancient Greek Θεόφιλος (Theóphilos), meaning "love of God" or "friend of God".

'That's a good one, that is!' said Ern. 'Lovaduck, I'd like to see Uncle Theophilus when I tell him that!'

1948, Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Hidden House:

"Call me Ted, will you, Rip? 'Theophilus' is unmanageable and 'Theo' is awkward. Everybody calls me Ted or Teddie, now."

1973, Thornton Wilder, Theophilus North, page 118:

A male given name from Ancient Greek; rare in English.


Marija

Марија Марија#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian or Serbo-Croatian female given name Марија (Marija), equivalent to Mary


Croato-Serbian

/kɹəʊˌeɪtəʊˈsɜː(ɹ)biən/


Croato-Serbian

/kɹəʊˌeɪtəʊˈsɜː(ɹ)biən/


Okie

Will Rogers is considered a famous Okie.

One time we broke into an Okie house where everybody was getting ready to go to a funeral.

1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

When, in high school, I was at the depth of my self-loathing-as-sissy, a brilliant young man arrived in Chickasha to become choral director at the high school. My friends and I had never met anyone like him: urbane, brilliant, dedicated to professional standards, a real taskmaster, who seemed to care for us little Okie hicks.

1979 August 11, Laud Humphreys, “Courage, Sisters and Brothers!”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 5:

(US, informal, sometimes derogatory) A person from Oklahoma.


Jessamine

Quoth he, 'It is not the jessamine one smells, but a slave-girl named Jessamine, whom my father would not buy for me.'

1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night:

A female given name from English, variant of Jasmine.


Judie

(uncommon) A diminutive of the female given name Judith.


Arty

A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.

A diminutive of the female given name Artemis, from Greek language.


Adnan

From Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).


Kalami

A Dardic language spoken in northern Pakistan; it is written using the Arabic script.


Dardic

A group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in north-eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan and north-western India.


Gottfried

Jewish and German surname, from Gott (“god”) + Friede (“peace”).

Gottfried Leibniz, a mathematician


Sampson

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Simson

From Sim, the short form of Simon + -son.

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


Justus

Name of several early saints, from Latin iustus (“just”), from iūs + -tus.

And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:23:


Prisca

Latin feminine form of the cognomen Priscus, from priscus (“old”).


Drusilla

Latin Drusilla, feminine diminutive form of the cognomen Drusus.

And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:24:


Damaris

Uncertain, possibly from Ancient Greek as a variation of δάμαλις (dámalis, “calf”).

Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 17:34:

A female given name from Ancient Greek of biblical origin, in occasional use.


Dena'ina

Borrowed from Dena'ina Denaʼina (literally “the people”).

bor

The Northern Athabascan language spoken by this tribe.


Kore

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

lbor

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Vasil

Васі́ль Васіль#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Васі́ль (Vasílʹ).

Васил Васил#Bulgarian

A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Macedonian male given name Васил (Vasil).


Eurasiatic

A hypothetical superfamily of languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America, namely Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Nivkh, Chukotian and Eskimo-Aleut.


Eskimo-Aleut

(linguistics) A language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia.


Chukotko-Kamchatkan

A language family of northeastern Siberia.


Luorawetlan

The Chukchi language, of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family.


Luoravetlan

Chukchi language of Chukotko-Kamchatkan family


Salomon

Jewish, German, Dutch, Danish, Polish, French, Breton, Haitian, Mauritian, and Spanish (as Salomón) surname, all a variant of Solomon.


Stefani

en-proper noun

Stefani (countable and uncountable, plural Stefanis)

A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Stephanie.


Stefany

A female given name from French, of rare usage, variant of Stephanie.


Flavia

Latin Flavia, feminine form of the gens name Flavius, probably from flavus (“yellow”).

A female given name from Latin, quite rare in English.


Jewell

Medieval/Middle English form of a Breton saint's name, from Old Breton Judicaël "lord" + "generous." The second element is from hael (“generous, bountiful”) and identical to Welsh hael (“generous”) (see that entry for details).

A male given name from the Celtic languages transferred back from the surname.

A female given name from English, of rare usage, variant of Jewel.

An unincorporated community in Marin County, California.

An unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon.


Balto-Slavic

The Proto-Balto-Slavic language, i.e. the common development stage between the Proto-Indo-European and the later Baltic and Slavic languages.


BNC

British National Corpus
w:British National Corpus

(linguistics) Initialism of British National Corpus.


Jonty

A diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.


Marin

The county was either named after Chief Marin, of the Coast Miwok tribe, or derived from the Spanish name of its eastern bay known as Bahía de Nuestra Señora del Rosario la Marinera in 1775.

‘But youʼre going down to Ventura and Marin to find out for sure?’

1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 278:

The place name of a county of 252,409 in northern California (see Marin County).


Marin

From Serbo-Croatian Marin, from Latin Marinus, from marinus.


Nikolina

Николина Николина#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Николина (Nikolina)


Vesna

Borrowed from Russian Весна (Vesna), Ukrainian Весна (Vesna), Serbo-Croatian Ве̏сна, etc. Doublet of Vasant and Basant, of Sanskrit origin.

A female given name of Eastern European usage.


Proto-Turkic

A hypothetical proto-language from which Old Turkic and all the other Turkic languages later emerged.

proto-turc

hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language


Old Turkic

The earliest attested Turkic language, found in inscriptions by the Göktürks and the Uyghurs in ca. the 7th to 13th centuries.


Darrin

They called me the "magic" kid, and my mother named me Darrin, after the husband of the witch on the sixties TV sitcom Bewitched.

2006, Darrin Owens, Reader of Hearts, New World Library, →ISBN, page 14:

A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Darren.


Georgiana

The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, “Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

A female given name from Ancient Greek derived from George.


Freeman

en-prop

Freeman (countable and uncountable, plural Freemans)

* Proprialisation of freeman. From originating as a freeman (instead of a serf, indentured, or some other status)
* free + man. A surname taken up by freed slaves.


Alutor

Borrowed from Russian алю́торский (aljútorskij), short for алю́торский язы́к (aljútorskij jazýk).

A language of Russia that belongs to the Chukchi-Koryak group of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages.


Austrian German

A national standard variety of the German language that is spoken and written in Austria and Bolzano-Bozen (Italy).


Shaye

(rare) A female given name transferred from the surname or from Irish, variant of Shay.


Shea

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Romola

From Italian Romola, feminine form of Romolo, from Latin Romulus.

Price. Wot does Rummy stand for? Pet name praps?
Rummy. Romola. It was out of a new book. Somebody me mother wanted to grow up like.
Price. We're companions in misfortune, Rummy. Both of us got names that nobody cawnt pronounce. Consequently I'm Snobby and you're Rummy because Bill and Sally wasn't good enough for our parents.

1906, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara: Act I:

(rare) A female given name from Italian.


Shanae

Anglicization of Irish Sinéad q.v. based on its modern Irish pronunciation.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Sinead, and Vanna.


Darien

A male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Darian.

(rare) A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Darian.

A city, the county seat of McIntosh County, Georgia, United States.


Elvira

en-proper noun

Elvira (countable and uncountable, plural Elviras)

A medieval Spanish royal name, of probably Gothic origin, and debated meaning, possibly 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gailjan) + *𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹 (*wērei), thus "joyful sincerity". It became famous outside Spain after its appearance in Mozart's Don Giovanni (1787).
The place name Elvira is a contraction of the older Illiberi, new city.

A female given name from Spanish, in quiet use since the 19th century.


Andrei

Андре́й Андрей#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Андре́й (Andréj), equivalent to Andrew.


Josias

And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

A male given name from Hebrew, the New Testament Greek form of Josiah.


Douglass

A male given name transferred from the surname.


contactee

He believes the contactees (those who claim to have actual contact with beings from outer space) are actually creating a new theology.

1966 May 11, “Harvard Astronomers Claim UFO's Are Based on Illusion and Religion”, in Harvard Crimson:

The “contactees” or “saucerians” surfaced in 1952 in southern California. They presented themselves as selected by superior beings from other planets for a special assignment—save the world.

2001, David A. Clary, Before and After Roswell, page 63:

(ufology, dated) A person who has been contacted by alien beings from outer space.


space alien

What would be the first question to ask a space alien newly arrived on planet Earth?

1997 July 1, Janet Maslin, “Oh, Aliens: Business As Usual”, in New York Times:

(chiefly US) An extraterrestrial being; a visitor from outer space.


Sranan Tongo

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo Sranan Tongo, from Sranan (“Suriname”) + tongo (“tongue, language”).

An English-based creole language and lingua franca in Suriname; its approximately 126,000 native speakers are predominantly ethnic Creoles.


Uralic

Pertaining to the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples, whose urheimat was the Ural Mountains, or to their languages, which constitute a language family, the Uralic languages.

uralià

pertaining to the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples or their languages


surrogatum

1800s. Latin, neuter singular of surrogatus

(Scots law) A thing put in the place of another; a substitute.


Tlahuica

An indigenous language spoken by the Matlatzinca people in the southern part of the State of Mexico.


Alessia

A female given name from Italian, equivalent to English Alexis.


Sumy

Sumy Oblast
Sumy Raion
en:Sumy
en:Sumy (disambiguation)

A diminutive of the female given name Sumaya.


Jedidiah

/ˌd͡ʒɛdɪˈdaɪə/

Borrowed from Hebrew יְדִידְיָה (“beloved of Yahweh”).


Wendell

Short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the tribal name Wendel-, "a Wend".

A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname.


Crispus

Latin Crispus, a Roman gens name from crispus (“curly”).

And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use.


Jaydon

A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage, variant of Jadon or Jayden.


Charmian

Diminutive form of Ancient Greek χάρμα (khárma, “joy”). According to Plutarch, the name of a servant and advisor of Cleopatra.

Help me away, dear Charmian, I shall fall:

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her Ethel. Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel. Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.

1979, Mary McMullen, But Nellie Was So Nice, Doubleday, page 23:


Evette

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a spelling variant of Yvette, confused with Eve.


Mateo

From Spanish Mateo, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū). Doublet of Matthew.

der

מַתִּתְיָהוּ

Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū)


Reginan

/ɹɪˈd͡ʒaɪ.nən/


Saskatonian

Saskatonians (plural)
Saskatoonian (alternative)

A native or inhabitant of the city of Saskatoon (Saskatchewan, Canada).


Frederictonian

A native or inhabitant of Fredericton, Canada.


Charlottetonian

A native or inhabitant of Charlottetown, Canada.


Yellowknifer

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories

A native or inhabitant of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.


Maritimer

A native or inhabitant of the Maritime provinces.


Mississaugan

A native or inhabitant of Mississauga, Canada.


Hamiltonian

(mathematics) Of, attributed to or inspired by the Irish mathematician, astronomer and physicist William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865).

Using the correction of a vector field to characterize isochronicity and explicit computations of this quantity for polynomial vector fields, wa are able to describe a very large class of nonisochronous Hamiltonian system of even degree of degree arbitrary large.

2016, Jacky Cresson, Jordy Palafox, “Isochronous centers of polynomial Hamiltonian systems and a conjecture of Jarque and Villadelprat”, in arXiv:

(mathematics, graph theory, of a graph) Containing a Hamiltonian cycle.

(historical, chiefly US, of certain fiscal policies) Advocated by American politician Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804).

Relating to James Hamilton (1769–1831), or his method of teaching languages without grammar, by a literal interlinear word-for-word translation.

Relating to Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856), Scottish metaphysician.


Nevadan

Koch thinks the gigafactory should be hiring more people from the community, whether there are incentives or not. But would the Nevadans compromise a bit on wages in order to at least have a job?

2016, Lydia DePillis, “At Tesla’s gigafactory, a larger battle over worker pay”, in The Washington Post:

“Tonight, President Donald Trump is taking reckless and selfish actions that are putting countless lives in danger here in Nevada,” Mr. Sisolak wrote on Twitter. “This is an insult to every Nevadan who has followed the directives, made sacrifices and put their neighbors before themselves. It’s also a direct threat to all of the recent progress we’ve made, and could potentially set us back.”

2020 September 14, Annie Karni, “Brazenly ignoring restrictions, Trump held a big indoor rally in Nevada.”, in The New York Times:

To raucous applause, he hammered home Ms. Cortez Masto’s personal history in his inimitable cadences: “Third-generation Nevadan. Grew up here in Vegas. Dad started out parking cars at the Dunes,” he said, referring to a defunct casino where Ms. Cortez Masto’s father once worked.

2022 March 11, Danny Hakim, “Nevada’s Costly, Photo-Finish Senate Race Pits Abortion vs. Economy”, in The New York Times:

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


Indianan

Indianans thought of it as a war far away in which they could not become involved.

1958, Olin Dee Morrison, Indiana, Hoosier State, volume 4, page 66:

(uncommon, proscribed) Synonym of Hoosier (“a native or inhabitant of Indiana”)


Aucklander

A native or resident of Auckland, New Zealand.


Syntyche

From Ancient Greek Συντύχη (Suntúkhē, “fortunate”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + τύχη (túkhē, “fate”).

prefix

I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 4:2:

(very rare, outside the Bible) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Rajkumari

Borrowed from Hindi राजकुमारी (rājkumārī).


Norseman

(historical) A medieval Scandinavian or Viking.


Nubian

Anglo-Nubian goat
Anglo-Nubian goat#English


Rosanne

Rosannes (plural)
Roseanne (alternative)
Rose Anne (alternative)
Rose-Anne (alternative)
RoseAnne (alternative)

Blend of Rose + Anne, possibly also inspired by Roxanne.


Hieronymus

en-proper noun

Hieronymus (countable and uncountable, plural Hieronymuses)

From Latin Hierōnymus, from Ancient Greek Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnumos, “holy name”). Doublet of Jerome.

der

A male given name from Ancient Greek of historical use.


Zelma

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Selma.


Leonora

From the Italian short form of Eleonora, cognate to Eleanor.


Lora

A female given name from Latin, an alternative spelling of Laura.


Roseanne

Roseannes (plural)
Rose Anne (alternative)
Rose-Anne (alternative)
RoseAnne (alternative)

A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosanne.


Isiah

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Isaiah.


Marcellus

Borrowed from Latin Marcellus. Doublet of Marcel.


Burgundian

/bɜːˈɡʌndɪən/

/bɜːɹˈɡʌndɪən/

From Burgundy + -an. Compare Old English Burgendan (“Burgundians”).

The extinct East Germanic language of the Burgundians.


Sibylla

If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste as Diana

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

A female given name from Ancient Greek of historical use; the Latin form of Sibyl.


Dunstan

From the name of a 10th century Archbishop of Canterbury, from Old English dunn (“dark”) + stān (“stone”).

"Let me do one thing more for you," she said. "Let me rename you. How on earth did you ever get yourself called Dunstable?"
"My mother's maiden name," said I. "Lots of people in Canada get landed with their mother's maiden name as a Christian name. But what's wrong with it?"
"It's hard to say, for one thing," said she, "and it sounds like a cart rumbling over cobblestones. You'll never get anywhere in the world named Dumbledum Ramsay. Why don't you change it to Dunstan? St. Dunstan was a marvellous person and very much like you - mad about learning, terribly stiff and stern and scowly, and an absolute wizard at withstanding temptation.

1970, Robertson Davies, Fifth Business, →ISBN, pages 96–97: