Brunhild

From German Brunhilde, from Middle High German Briunhilde, from Old High German *Brunnīhilta, from Proto-Germanic *Brunjōhildiz (from *brunjǭ (“breastplate”) + *hildiz (“battle, fight”)).

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Brunhilda (alternative)
Brunhilde (alternative)
Brünhilde (alternative)
Brunnhilde (alternative)
Brünnhilde (alternative)
Brünnehilde (alternative)
Brunhildr (alternative)
Brynhild (alternative)
Brynhildr (alternative)

Unlike some contemporary queens who converted their husbands to orthodox belief, Brunhild was an Arian Christian who was converted to orthodoxy when she married Sigebert.

2013, Theresa Earenfight, Queenship in Medieval Europe, page 58:

One of the rare women who came to great power in the early medieval world was Brunhild, daughter of the Visigothic king Athanagild and reputedly a girl of mesmerising beauty.

2014, Wim Blockmans, Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500, page 104:

In the Histories, Brunhild and Fredegund appear as political adversaries and moral opposites. Gregory encouraged his audience to compare the two queens by emphasising their differences. He said nothing bad of Brunhild, yet he accused Fredegund of a great many crimes, including murder, sacrilege, witchcraft and treason.

2015, E. T Dailey, Queens, Consorts, Concubines, page 119:

(historical) Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia, wife of Sigebert I, who later ruled Austrasia and Burgundy as regent.


Jelena

Borrowed from Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian Еле́на (Jeléna), from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Helen and Ellen.

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Еле́на Елена#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Еле́на (Jeléna), equivalent to Helen.


Sava

From Ancient Greek Σάββας (Sábbas), a spiritual name taken on by Prince Rastko Nemanjić (Saint Sava) upon becoming a monk, from Aramaic סבא (“grandfather, old man”)

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Сава (Sava)


Caren

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Karen.


Gianluca

From Italian Gianluca (literally “John-Luke”).


Ghomara

A language of the Berber family, spoken in Northern Morocco.


Xârâcùù

An Austronesian language spoken in New Caledonia.


Jez

Jez San, in common with other computer games entrepreneurs, got into computers early. His father worked in import-export, and bought him a home computer in the US before they were available here.

2001, Charles Leadbeater, Kate Oakley, Surfing the Long Wave: Knowledge Entrepreneurship in Britain:

A diminutive of the male given name Jeremy.


Scarlet

It's not just Ribbons either. It's - get ready for this - Scarlet Ribbons. From an old Harry Belafonte record my mom had when she was about ten or something. When she grew up she was going to have a little girl and call her Scarlet Ribbons.

1979, Joseph Hansen, Skinflick, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, →ISBN, page 96:

A female given name from English, a modern variant of Scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.


Moshe

Transliteration of Hebrew משה, sometimes conjectured to derive from Egyptian msj (“to give birth to”), a common element in Egyptian names of the form ‘[name of deity] is the one who bore him’.

Moishe (alternative)
Moses (alternative)


Moishy

A diminutive of the male given name Moshe.


Jedward

(UK, Ireland, informal) John & Edward, an Irish singing duo who achieved fame in The X Factor in 2009.


Emmeline

Medieval English form of Old French Ameline, diminutive form of Amélie, cognate to English Amelia.

With no notice from her father's family, Emmeline had attained her twelfth year.

1788, Charlotte Turner Smith, Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, White, Wogan, published 1789, page 4:

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Mitzi

Borrowed from German Mitzi in the 20th century.

"Helen," he called, "is this Mitzi?" and held out the burnt blackened doll. The child seized it with a scream of joy. "Mitzi! Mitzi!" she cried.

1922, Claude Carlos Washburn, The Lonely Warrior, Harcourt, Brace and company, page 245:


ǀXam

An extinct Khoisan language once spoken in South Africa.


Shloime

A diminutive of the male given name Shlomo.


Shimshon

Transliteration of Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן. Doublet of Samson.


Xenia

From the assumed name of a fifth-century saint venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Latin Xenia, from Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitable”). Doublet of Oksana.

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Ksenia (alternative)
Kseniya (alternative)
Xeniya (alternative)

A female given name from Ancient Greek of mainly historical use in English.


Shimon

Transliteration of Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (shimon).


Willa

Derived from Wilhelmina and recoined in the 19th century in America based on the male given names Will and William.

Even though Miss Cather's father clearly wrote that Willa was named after our "little sister", Miss Lewis' text reads: "They named Willa after ... William Lee Boak, who was killed in the Civil War".

1974, Bernice Slote, Virginia Faulkner, The Art of Willa Cather, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, →ISBN, page 198:


Shaz

A diminutive of the female given name Sharon.

A diminutive of the female given name Shazia.


Reuven

uder

Hebrew רְאוּבֵן


Jair

From Middle English Jair, Iair, from Old English Iāirus, from Latin Iaīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάϊρ (Iáïr), from Biblical Hebrew יָאִיר (yāʾîr, literally “he will light up”). Doublet of Yair and Jairus.

der

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Avraham

Hebrew אַבְרָהָם


Ngarrindjeri

Narinjari (alternative)
Narrinyeri (alternative)

/ŋəˈrɪndʒəriː/

A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language spoken by the Ngarrindjeri people.


Dakarois

"This dictator-view is available to anyone who can afford the $7 it costs to ride the elevator at the base of the African Renaissance Monument. That sum, unfortunately, rules out most Dakarois."

2017, Daniel Howden, A North Korean Folly, in the Heart of Senegal:


Stanislaus

From the Latin form of a Slavic name, Станисла́в (Stanisláv) in Russian and Станислав (Stanislav) in Bulgarian, famous in the history of Poland, from the Proto-Slavic elements *stati (“to stand, become”) + *slàva (“glory”).

A male given name from the Slavic languages.

Estanislao

male given name- the standard or most popular form


Monom

An Austroasiatic language spoken in the East Gia Lai, Kon Tum provinces of Vietnam.


Stavros

From Greek Σταύρος (Stávros), from σταυρός (stavrós, “cross”).

Σταύρος Σταύρος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Σταύρος (Stávros).


Lemurian

en-adj

Lemurian (comparative more Lemurian, superlative most Lemurian)

more Lemurian (comparative)
most Lemurian (superlative)

Relating to the Ancient Roman festival of Lemuria.


Tirzah

Borrowed from Hebrew תִּרְצָה (tirtsáh), meaning "pleasant" or "she is my delight".

A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Thirza

Borrowed from the German variant of Tirzah through 18th-century literature.

What, tell me, my Thirza, provokes thee to speak, / In high-sounding phrases, our Mordecai's name?

1817 Robert Patterson, Recluse: The Art of Domestick Happiness: and other poems, page 182


Thyrza

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Tirzah.


Seraphina

From Late Latin Seraphina, name of obscure early martyrs, from biblical seraphim.

I breathed out the name Seraphina into the moonlight in an increasing transport. "Seraphina! Seraphina! Seraphina!" The repeated beauty of the sound intoxicated me.

1903, Joseph Conrad, Romance, Babylon Dreams, →ISBN, page 196:


Seraphine

Anglicized spelling of French Séraphine.

By the time I carried tea and toast back through to Ruth, the baby was asleep, the umbilical cord tied off, and Ruth was stroking the tiny face with one finger. 'I'm going to call her Seraphine,' she said. 'She looks like an angel.'

2018, Emma Rous, The Au Pair: A spellbinding mystery full of dark family secrets, Hachette UK, →ISBN:


D/L

Duckworth-Lewis method
Duckworth-Lewis method#English

(cricket) Initialism of Duckworth-Lewis method.


Suze

A diminutive of the female given names Susan, Susanne, Suzanne, or Susanna.


Iseult

Old French, the name of the queen who fell in love with Tristan in medieval romance Tristan and Iseult, perhaps from Celtic, of uncertain meaning, possibly Proto-Brythonic *Adsiltia (“she who is gazed upon”); compare Welsh syllu and Irish súil. Otherwise from Germanic, equivalent to Old High German is (“ice”) + hiltja (“battle”) (from Proto-West Germanic *hildi).

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Just as he finished, the daughter came in, Iseult. A name out of the past, a darkly Celtic presence: jet-black hair, the same as Minogue had had, tall.

1988, John Brady, A Stone of the Heart, St Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 9:


Isolde

Borrowed from the German Isolde, German form of Iseult.

A female given name from the Celtic languages or the Germanic languages.


Pawnee

Borrowing from French Pani, from Algonquin pani, either from Winnebago pa꞉ní or Chiwere pányi.

A near-extinct language of North America.

A village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.

A ghost town in Geary County, Kansas, United States.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Bee County, Texas, United States.


Itelmen

A language of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family, spoken on Kamchatka in Russia.


Black Book

Any of several books or documents of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; so called either from the colour of the binding, or from the character of the contents.


10 Downing Street

(UK politics) The address of the residence in London of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

[…] he declared from early in his life that he intended to be viceroy of India, as a natural stepping-stone on his way to 10 Downing Street.

2001, Trevor Owen Lloyd, Empire: the history of the British Empire, →ISBN, page 138:

(UK politics, by extension, metonymically) The title or office of the Prime Minister.

[…] explicitly clear, in the way that 10 Downing Street has made it clear in the case of city academies, that it is perfectly legitimate to put people in the House of Lords […]

2006, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee, Propriety and Honours: Interim Findings; Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, volume 29, →ISBN, page 23:

(by extension, metonymically) The government of the United Kingdom.


Pouria

پوریا پوریا#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name پوریا (puriyâ).


Sarabeth

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


Cajun French

The dialect of the French language spoken in Louisiana, USA


Hadza

A language isolate spoken by the Hadza people.


Cajetan

/ˈkæd͡ʒətən/

From the Latin Caiētānus (“inhabitant of Gaeta”), re-Latinized from Italian Gaetano, name of a saint.

A male given name from Latin, of historical use.


Dade

Anglicised from an Irish equivalent of David.


unlaw

en-verb

unlaw (third-person singular simple present unlaws, present participle unlawing, simple past and past participle unlawed)

unlaws (present singular third-person)
unlawing (participle present)
unlawed (participle past)
unlawed (past)

(transitive, obsolete, Scots law) To fine.


Proto-Norse

An Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia and ancestral to Old Norse that evolved from Proto-Germanic over the first centuries AD.


Mimantean

en-adj

Mimantean (comparative more Mimantean, superlative most Mimantean)

more Mimantean (comparative)
most Mimantean (superlative)
Mimantian (alternative)

From Ancient Greek Μῑμάντος (Mīmántos), genitive case of Μίμᾱς (Mímās), from earlier Μίμανς (Mímans).

This is puzzling because Mimas is closer to Saturn than Enceladus, and the Mimantean orbit is much more eccentric (out of round) than the Enceladean orbit.

2008, Samantha Harvey (NASA/JPL), Solar System Exploration, page Saturn: Moons: Mimas:

a global thermal event early in Mimantian history erased all record of ancient impacts

2011, Paul M. Schenk, “Geology of Mimas?”, in 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference:

(astronomy) Of or relating to the Saturnian moon named for Mimas


Anglo-Frisian

A group of Germanic languages, including English, Scots and Frisian.


Hef

In a desperate attempt to impress Laura, Bart begins bathing and sashaying about in a smoking jacket while sucking thoughtfully on a bubble pipe as part of his new pint-sized Hef persona.

2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(informal) A nickname for Hugh Hefner, American businessman and playboy


Lombardic

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


Lombardic

Lombardic language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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


Carissa

Carissa gave him a sideways glance and smiled ruefully.

2009, Ethan Fowler, Mardene Fowler, Brushed Back: The Story of Trevor Bullock, page 94:

“Wow,” said Carissa. “I guess activism runs in the family.”

Before they could go, Carissa stepped out behind them. She had been listening from inside the door.

2019, Michael G. Manning, Transcendence and Rebellion:


Krissie

Chrissie (alternative)
Chrissy (alternative)
Krissy (alternative)

Kristin Lund. Krissie sounded closer to home and just as beautiful. Krissie Lund. It rolled off the tongue like a balalaika riff.

1990, Ed McBain, Vespers, Mandarin, published 1991, →ISBN, page 35:

A diminutive of the female given name Kristina and of its variant forms.


Daur

Daurs (plural)
Daur (plural)
Dahur (alternative)
Daghor (alternative)
Daghur (alternative)
Dagor (alternative)
Dagur (alternative)

Official Chinese GB 3304‐91 romanisation. Borrowed from Daur daur and Russian дау́ръ m anim sg (daúr, noun), alternative forms reflect Manchu ᡩᠠᡤᡡᡵ (dagūr), ᡩᠠᡥᡡᡵ (dahūr), and Classical Mongolian ᠳᠠᠭᠤᠷ (daɣur). The ethnonym has been considered to be originated from Khitan ⿰𘲆𘮒 (dau.úr /*dawur/, “middle, central”), a modifier used in the full name of the Liao empire.

lang

Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

The language of the ethnic group, which belongs to the Mongolic language family.


Jo-Anne

A female given name from Hebrew, one of the 20th century spelling variants of Joanne.


Pamir

A group of languages spoken in the Pamir mountains.


pupillarity

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pūpillāritās.

(Scots law) The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females


Nivkh

The language isolate spoken by the Nivkh.


Cecie

A diminutive of the female given name Cecily.


Phanariote

Phanariotes (plural)
Phanariot (alternative)

For a little over a hundred years, from 1711 until the outbreak of the Greek Revolution in 1821, with only brief interruptions during times of war, Moldavia and Wallachia would be ruled yb a succession of Phanariot princes.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 17:

(now historical) An inhabitant of Phanar, the historically Greek district of Constantinople; hence, a member of the Greek official class in the Ottoman Empire.


Nyssa

Claire would have wagered there was nothing in life that could make her like Nyssa.
But Claire had not counted on Nyssa herself. Nyssa's aim in life seemed to be to do whatever she wanted whenever she wanted to do it.

1992, Jude Deveraux, The Duchess, page 276:

“What?” Nyssa asks, in shock.
Bejine hurries from the area with his daughter in his arms. Barry, Nyssa and the rest quickly follow.
Bejine stops outside of the portal. He is about to enter it when Nyssa stops him.
“You said 'only on this world'?" Nyssa remarks. "What did you mean by that?"

2009, Benjamin W. Schenk, The Immortals: Eternal War, page 583:

Bliss gasped, and Nyssa could not help the little giggle that escaped her. It was not often that someone could set her aunt back on her heels so firmly and neatly.

2012, Bertrice Small, Love, Remember Me, page 100:


Blanch

That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch, / Is near to England: look upon the years / Of Lewis the Dauphin and the lovely maid. / If lusty love should go in quest of beauty, / Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?

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


Marilla

Oh, Marilla, it was heartrending. Mr. Phillips made such a beautiful farewell speech beginning, ‘The time has come for us to part.’ It was very affecting. And he had tears in his eyes too, Marilla.

1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1909 (11th printing), →OCLC:

She had been named after Aunt Marilla of Green Gables, but Aunt Marilla had died before Rilla was old enough to know her very well, and Rilla detested the name as being horribly old-fashioned and prim.

1921, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 12:

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Maria.


Rilla

His pet name for her was Rilla-my-Rilla - a little pun on her real name, Marilla. She had been named after Aunt Marilla of Green Gables, but Aunt Marilla had died before Rilla was old enough to know her very well, and Rilla detested the name as being horribly old-fashioned and prim.

A diminutive of the female given name Marilla.


Steenie

"Here, Dougal," said the Laird, "gie Steenie a tass of brandy down stairs, till I count the siller and write the receipt."

And now the murder is out, and I stand before you as Stephen Broadfoot, or "Little Steenie", as I used to be called when attending Edinburgh College.

1852, William Harrison Ainsworth, “Tale of a Carpet-Bag”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, volume 21, page 17:

(Scotland) A diminutive of the male given name Stephen.


Marcomanni

Learned borrowing from Latin Marcomanni, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“border”) + *mann- (“man”).


Nuristani

From Persian نورستانی (nurestâni), from نورستان (nurestân) + ـی (-i, “of or pertaining to”), from نور (nur, “light”) + ـستان (-estân, “land of”).

One of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, the other two being Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups.


Northern Thai

/ˈnɔɹðəɹn taɪ/

The language spoken in the northern region of Thailand (closely related to Thai and Lao).


Inessa

Инесса Инесса#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Инесса (Inessa)


Cajun English

The dialect of the English language spoken in Cajun areas of southern Louisiana, USA


Presley

The English surname is usually a variant of Priestley, from Old English prēost (“priest”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to priest + -ley (“lea”).
The place-name in Scotland may be from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh prys (“bush”) + Welsh lle (“place”).

بْرِيسْلِي

transliterations of the English name "Presley"


Zelophehad

From Hebrew צְלָפְחָד (ts'lofchád, “Zelophehad”).

bor

And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

(very rare outside the Bible) A male given name from Hebrew.


Brose

Take poor Brose, who was actually christened Ambrose. A thing like that could simply warp a person's life, if he wasn't a good enough fighter to make the other kids start calling him by some nickname at an early age.

1951, Rosamond Du Jardin, Class Ring, Lippincott, page 140:

A diminutive of the male given name Ambrose.


Arpetan

Alternative form of Arpitan (“Franco-Provençal”)


Darby

en-proper noun

Darby (countable and uncountable, plural Darbys)

From the English place name Derby, from Old Norse djúr (“deer”) + býr (“settlement”).

The man whom you call Diarmaid when you speak Irish, a low, pernicious, un-Irish, detestable custom, begot by slavery, and propagated by cringing, and fostered by flunkeyism, forces you to call Jeremiah when you speak English, or as a concession, Darby.

2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, . Cork University Press., →ISBN, page 8:

A male given name transferred from the surname.

"You could always pick names, Thomas. I remember women you turned down because you didn't like their names. Gorgeous, hot women, but with flat names. Darby. Has a nice, erotic touch to it. What a name.

1992, John Grisham, The Pelican Brief, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 52:

A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

A number of places in the United States:

Three townships in Ohio, in Madison County, Pickaway County and Union County.


Mickeysoft

Blend of Mickey Mouse (suggesting inferior quality) and Microsoft.


Windoze

Blend of Windows + doze, suggesting slow performance. First use appears c. 1986. See cite below.

Every point and counterpoint is peppered with derisive terms such as "Windoze," "File Mangler," and "PeeCees."

1986, PC Communications Corporation, PC Magazine, The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing · Volume 15, page 85:

I've had it with the Windoze Gestapo. They want to make everyone use Windoze. They have propogandize^([sic]) the public through computer publications and large newspapers.

1997 February 19, ROWE BOBBY S, “Defend yourself against the Windoze Gestapo”, in alt.destroy.microsoft (Usenet):

My big fear was that they'd use some kind of weirdo operating system, but it turned out just to be Windoze. And not Windoze Millennium, NT, or '98, or even '95, but Windoze 3.1

2006, Anthony McGowan, Hellbent, page 118:

(computing, slang, derogatory) Microsoft Windows.


Windross

Blend of Windows + dross, suggesting an inferior product.

Like Danny, I made the difficult decision to take a close look at Windross at Xmas96. The OS is a monster it's true; but IMHO it also brings alternative ways of achieving your objectives which are, as I have tried to show, not available in the Acorn environment. Recent threads on Acorn v Windross in schools don't seem to focus on this?

1998 June 10, Martin Birchall, “Sad”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):

The Windross user experience is awful. I migrated to the Mac, and while it's amazing to have inDesign, XPress, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc. right there, Mac OS 8/9's GUI was nothing on RISC OS and it's difficult to describe in any meaningful way Mac OS X's GUI is better than Windows - especially as the responsiveness remains poor.

2003 January 4, David, “Comments about Windross OS”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):

I copy the file to a plain Jane Lexar thumb drive, then move the drive to Windoze. Windross does it's^([sic]) usual popup game: "Yay! Look at me! I found something! Yay! It's a USB device! Yay! I'm setting it up now! Yay! Look at me!!"

2012 November 17, Sinister Midget, “Windwoes Dimwittery”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):


Iau

A Lakes Plain language spoken by the Turu people.


kelper

From kelp + -er, so named because the islands are surrounded by much kelp.

(slang, dated) A Falkland Islander, native to the Falkland Islands.


Renaissance Latin

The Latin language, as developed during the Italian Renaissance in the second half of the 14th century, which displaced Medieval Latin by the end of the century and became Early Modern Latin by the early 16th century.


Danica

From Slavic female given name, from the Slavic name for the Morning Star (an aspect of the planet Venus).

A female given name from the Slavic languages.


Portuñol

From Spanish portuñol, blend of portugués (“Portuguese”) + español (“Spanish”).


Guanhua

Borrowed from Mandarin 官話 /官话 (Guānhuà).

Mandarin, group of Northern Chinese dialects including Standard Mandarin (Putonghua).


Bibi

This time, though, I think Bibi drove one wedge too many into the heart of Israel’s body politic.

2023 June 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Tel Aviv to Riyadh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


Anabel

A female given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Annabel.


Cisalpine Gaulish

The extinct language spoken in Cisalpine Gaul, now northern Italy.


Rowan

Anglicised from the Irish saints' name Ruadhán (“little red one”), or as a surname from Ó Ruadháin (“descendant of Ruadhán”).

A unisex given name from English of modern usage, often associated with the rowan tree.


Clarabel

A female given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Claribel.


Lazar

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Lazar, ultimately from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lázaros), from Hebrew אלעזר (ʼElʻāzār).

The Servians have a legend, which gives a terrible picture of this national virtue:
“Day departs, and the moon shines upon the white fields of snow. A stranger enters the dwelling of poor Lazar.

1857 May, “Life in Servia”, in The Young Men’s Magazine, volume 1, number 1, page 15:

It was on the morning after the arrival of the Mussulman forces upon the plain of Kossova, that a herald, accompanied by a small escort, demanded an interview with the Sultan Murad, on the part of his master, Lazar, the King of Servia.

1861, George W. M. Reynolds, “The Death of Murad”, in The Young Fisherman, and Other Stories, London: John Dicks, page 88:

A Serbian male given name from Serbo-Croatian.


Karlyn

(rare) A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Carolyn or Carlene.


Sergey

Transliteration of Russian Серге́й (Sergéj), from Latin Sergius.

translit

Серге́й Сергей#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Серге́й (Sergéj).


Eneas

The three brothers, Jack, Tom, and Eneas. Oh, yes. In the west of Ireland by the way Eneas is three syllables, En-ee-as. In Cork I fear it is two, and sounds more like a person's backside than anything else.

2008, Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 33:

A male given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Aeneas.


Claribel

/ˈklɛəɹəbɛl/

A fanciful variant of Clara, inspired by names like Annabel, Christabel or Isabel.

Methinks, our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis.

(rather rare) A female given name from Latin.


Clarah

A female given name from Latin, a rare nonstandard spelling of Clara.


Numidian

en-adj

Numidian (comparative more Numidian, superlative most Numidian)

more Numidian (comparative)
most Numidian (superlative)

Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble.

1923, Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City:

Of or pertaining to Numidia or its inhabitants.


Numidian

a variety of Berber spoken by the people of Numidia


Lana

Short form of Alana, or from Russian Ла́на (Lána), diminutive of several names including Светла́на (Svetlána).

Mervyn LeRoy, the boyish cigar-smoking director who signed her, didn't like her name Julia. So she thought awhile and said, "What about Lana?" For no reason at all it became Lana - pronounced Lah-nah.

1942 September 5, Irving Wallace, “The Loves of Lana Turner”, in Liberty magazine:

I discovered that her full name was Margaret Lowell. I wasn't an expert on Earth names, but I still knew this was wildly inappropriate. She should have been called Lana Bellcurve or Ashley Brainsex or something.

2013, Matt Haig, The Humans, Canongate, →ISBN, page 832:


langue d'oïl

en-noun

langue d'oïl (countable and uncountable, plural langues d'oïl)

(uncountable) The language of medieval France, north of the Loire, in which the word oïl was used for yes


Kia

Irene's conversation with Christina “Kia” Strömborg brought nothing new.

2014, Helene Tursten, The Fire Dance, →ISBN:

I owe to my wife, Anna Christina (Kia) De Ozorio Nobre, not only a life full of love, but also the initial idea of dedicating more attention [...]

2014, Luciano Floridi, The Fourth Revolution, →ISBN:

A diminutive of the female given name Christina.


Carlene

A 20th-century coinage from Carl and the ending -ene, -lene, as in Marlene and Charlene.

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Kur

An Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia.


Anunnaki

Ananaki (alternative)
Anukki (alternative)
Anunna (alternative)
Anunnaku (alternative)
Enukki (alternative)
Annunaki (alternative)

(Mesopotamian mythology) A group of Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian deities in no known particular order including but not limited to Enki, Enlil, Ninlil and 'known as the fourth' Enbilulu.

Anunnaki

a group of Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian deities

conspiracy theories
conspiracy theory#Noun

(conspiracy theories) An extraterrestrial reptilian race supposed to originate from a hidden planet called "Niburu", thought to be the overlords of a secret world government and equated with the Nephilim by conspiracy theorists.


Aja

A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Sudan.


Old Galician-Portuguese

Late Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages#English

A language spoken in western Iberia during the High and Late Middle Ages, the ancestor of modern Portuguese and Galician.

oldportugisisk

Portuguese language from 12th to 15th centuries


BSL

British Sign Language
British Sign Language#English


Stephie

A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.


Hanoverian

en-adj

Hanoverian (comparative more Hanoverian, superlative most Hanoverian)

more Hanoverian (comparative)
most Hanoverian (superlative)

the Hanoverian brown rat

Of or from the House of Hanover, a German royal dynasty.


Hanoverian

"[…]I had rather be anything than a courtier, and a Presbyterian, and a Hanoverian too, as some people, I believe, are."

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter II, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI:


Byzantine Greek

Collectively, the continuum of forms of the Greek language as written and spoken during the time of the Byzantine Empire (C.E. 330–1453), preceded by Koine Greek and Early Medieval Greek and succeeded by Late Medieval Greek to Modern Greek. (ISO 639-3 code: grc shared with Classical Greek.)


Owain

Borrowed from Welsh Owain. Doublet of Owen.

Owain Roberts, from Anglesey, was sent a bill for £4,300 by Vodafone.

2014 November 22, Miles Brignall, “Victory against Vodafone for schoolteacher billed £15,000”, in The Guardian:

A male given name from Welsh, equivalent to English Owen.


Switzer

From early New High German Schwytzer (modern High German Schweizer) "a Swiss person", especially "a Swiss soldier or mercenary", a designation adopted in the 16th century, ultimately from the toponym Swīz "Schwyz". More at Swiss.


Conleth

Anglicised from Irish Conlao, Conlaodh, from Old Irish Conláed. Saint Conláed was an Irish hermit and the first Bishop of Kildare.

This was the main lesson imparted the other evening by Sean Campion and Conleth Hill, the two amiable Irish stage actors who have been performing for the last three and a half months in the comedy Stones in His Pockets at the Golden Theater on West 45th Street.


Conley

Conleys (plural)
Conlee (alternative)
Conly (alternative)

Anglicization of Irish Ó Conghalaigh and Ó Conghaile, patronyms of Conghalach. Doublet of Connolly

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


Dereck

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


Cham

The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by these people.


Cham

Pertaining to the Cham people or their language.

占

pertaining to the Cham people or their language


Cham

an ethnic Albanian from Çamëri, originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Çamëri (engl.: Chameria).


Og

And the Lord shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 31:4:

(very rare, outside the Bible) A male given name from Hebrew.


White Hart Lane

A road between High Road, Wood Green N22, and Tottenham High Road, N17, and a railway station in this road at the Tottenham end. The stadium (which was in the High Road) could have been named after either or both.


Dorinda

An 18th-century coinage from Dora or Dorothy, + -inda.

Every child in the Square at once hurried and thrust and scrambled and pushed a way through the crowd, and in less than a minute Dinah and Dorinda were entirely surrounded by fifty or sixty boys and girls, all shouting […]

1944, Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon:


Jennalyn

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Jennica

Blend of Jennifer + Jessica, a 20th-century coinage.

When we were twenty minutes from the airport, he said: “Jennica, we're almost there.” He wanted to talk.

2009, Rudolph Delson, Maynard and Jennica, page 230:


Kayley

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


Norville

English and Scottish surname of Norman origin meaning "northern town," shortened from Normanville, equivalent to Norman + -ville.


Abkhasian

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
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Vanya

Romanization of Russian and Ukrainian Ва́ня (Vánja, “Johnny”), a diminutive of Ива́н (Iván), Іван (Ivan, “John”)

bor

Ива́н Иван#Russian

A transliteration of the pet form of the Russian male given name from Russian or Ukrainian Ива́н (Iván), Іван (Ivan).

Aditi introduced him to Vanya, her five-year-old daughter. He could not meet her yesterday as she had gone for her drawing classes at that time. Vanya, dropping the crayons that she was busy coloring with, looked up at him and[…]

2018 October 12, THE UNPLANNED, Onlinegatha, →ISBN, page 136:

Nia looked at Vanya, her brown eyes searching her sister-in-law's face.

2020 October 24, Milla Holt, Lessons Learned in Love, Reinbok Limited, →ISBN:

Allison's words of warning to her sister Vanya express a common and everyday concern for many women.

2021 November 2, Lisann Anders, The Force of The Umbrella Academy: Essays on Voices and Violence in the Comics and Netflix Series, McFarland, →ISBN, page 152:


Krumen

Kroomen (alternative)
Kroumen (alternative)

The Grebo language spoken by these people.


full infinitive

en-noun

full infinitive (plural full infinitives)

(grammar) The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to, or the equivalent in other Germanic languages, e.g. a Swedish infinitive introduced by 'att', or a Norwegian Bokmål infinitive introduced by 'å'.


to-infinitive

As it turned out, much previous work on the subject is based on two assumptions about the situation of the to'''-infinitive in OE that have never been tested, but have, through constant reiteration, achieved the status of axioms: first, that the categorial status of the to'''-infinitive in OE is PP; and secondly, that the to'''-infinitive spread at the expense of the infinitive without to, the bare infinitive (see below, §§1.2 and 1.3).

2005, Bettelou Los, “Introduction”, in The Rise of the To-Infinitive (Oxford Linguistics), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

(grammar) The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to.


Mendy

A diminutive of the female given name Melinda.


Ricki

From Richard. As a female name also from Erica.

A diminutive of the male given name Richard, more often spelled Rickie or Ricky.

A female given name from the Germanic languages and a nickname of modern usage, also spelled Rikki.


Satchmo

Contraction of satchel mouth, referring to his large mouth and open singing style. Also called Satch.

(informal) Louis Armstrong, 1901-1971, an American jazz musician.


Tunisian Arabic

A group of Arabic dialects spoken primarily in Tunisia.


Morley

en-prop

Morley (countable and uncountable, plural Morleys)

From Old English mor (“moor”) + leah (“wood”). Equivalent to moor + -ley (“lea”).

Morley Kamen, Morley Safer

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Garth

Welsh garth probably has its influence on Welsh place names.

A male given name from Welsh, shortened form of Gareth


Kearney

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


Sutton

en-proper noun

Sutton (countable and uncountable, plural Suttons)

From Old English suþ (“south”) + tun (“town”).


Holyrood

From Middle English Holy Rood, Holyrode, holy-rode, holy roode, hali rode, halgorode, equivalent to holy + rood (“crucifix, cross”).
The town in Newfoundland is named after a location near Crewkerne, Somerset.

But Matheson has indicated that the Scottish Government will not be responding to the consultation because transport policy in Scotland is a matter for ministers at Holyrood and not at Westminster.

2020 December 16, “Network News: Scotland set to snub Johnson's Union Connectivity Review”, in RAIL, page 21:

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, by extension, metonymically) The Scottish Parliament.


Hispanophone

Hispanophones (plural)
hispanophone (alternative)

A native speaker of the Spanish language


Antiochian

en-adj

Antiochian (comparative more Antiochian, superlative most Antiochian)

more Antiochian (comparative)
most Antiochian (superlative)
Antiochan (alternative)


Antiochian

Antiochians (plural)
Antiochan (alternative)

Pompey erected the place into a free city for refusing to receive the Armenian King Tigranes, whom the Antiochians had summoned to their aid.

(historical) A person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient Antioch.

անտիոքացի

a person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient Antioch


Antiochian

Pertaining to Antiochus of Ascalon, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.


Bolognese

(informal, of a pasta sauce) Made from minced meat, tomato and any combination of other ingredients.


Bronx Bombers

(US, baseball) nickname of the New York Yankees


Herbie

A diminutive of the male given name Herbert.


Hayleigh

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


North Germanic

(linguistics) A branch of the Germanic language family which comprises Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish


Wejewa

A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the interior of Sumba Island, the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia.


Elaina

I shrugged. "I know our alleged computer specialist Tera is your daughter Elaina Tera Cameron," I said.

1999, Timothy Zahn, The Icarus Hunt, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 262:

A female given name from Ancient Greek, of modern usage, variant of Elaine.


Wallabies

(rugby) the national rugby union representative team of Australia


Matildas

(soccer) the women's national soccer representative team of Australia

Australia women's national association football team


Lucilla

From Latin Lūcilla, feminine diminutive form of the praenomen Lūcius.

- - - She was called Lucy and I was called Lucilla, after her, which is just a shade of difference. Lucy is more lovable than Lucilla, don't you think?" "Lucilla is a charming name," said Richard.

1966, L. P. Hartley, The Betrayal, H. Hamilton, page 54:


Aramaean

Aramaeans (plural)
Aramæan (alternative)
Aramean (alternative)

From the Latin Aramaeī, from the Ancient Greek Ἀραμαῖοι (Aramaîoi), from Hebrew ארם (aram), the biblical name of a land of Upper Mesopotamia falling within modern Syria.

Any member of a West Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who lived in the Levant and later also in upper Mesopotamia (Biblical Aram) during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. They spoke Aramaic.


Aramaean

Aramæan (alternative)
Aramean (alternative)


Limburger

en-noun

Limburger (usually uncountable, plural Limburgers)


Algherese

The dialect of the Catalan language spoken in the Italian city of Alghero, in Sardinia.


Central Sierra Miwok

An endangered language of the Utian family, spoken in California, USA.


Gerrard

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


Livornian

en-adj

Livornian (comparative more Livornian, superlative most Livornian)

more Livornian (comparative)
most Livornian (superlative)


Comox

From Lik'wala, the southern dialect of Kwak'wala kw’umuxws (“plentiful”).

A Salishan language historically spoken in Comox and the surrounding areas, including the Sunshine Coast.


Aostan

Aostan (comparative more Aostan, superlative most Aostan)

more Aostan (comparative)
most Aostan (superlative)


Q'anjob'al

Kanhobal (alternative)
Kanjobal (alternative)

A Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and part of Mexico.


Florrie

A shortened form of the female given names Flora and Florence.


Jenafer

(rare) A female given name from Welsh, a modern nonstandard variant of Jennifer.


Jenefer

A female given name from Welsh, of rare usage, variant of Jennifer.


Disney World

Disney Worlds (plural)
Disneyworld (alternative)

From Walt Disney World, a resort in Florida owned by Disney which is home to a group of theme parks.

[…]a sort of Disney World of American history. All the ticket takers and street sweepers and information givers were dressed in period costumes, the women in big aprons and muffin hats, the men in tricornered caps[…]

1989, Bill Bryson, The lost continent: travels in small-town America, page 110:

Somehow one's acceptance into humanity is dependent on the kind of Disney World assumption that differences are only on the surface.

1994, Kumar Rupesinghe, Marcial Rubio Correa, The culture of violence, page 87:

There is no refuge from reality in teaching, no orderly life in a kind of Disney World of the mind where nothing really dangerous ever happens and a predictable good time is had by all.

2000, James Joseph O'Donnell, Avatars of the word: from papyrus to cyberspace, page 144:

(informal, often derogatory) A place resembling the Disney World theme park, often typified by a corporately-designed saccharine cheerfulness.


Mondial

Likely from French mondial (“worldwide, global”).

international auxiliary language
international auxiliary language

An international auxiliary language created by Swedish school principal Helge Heimer in the 1940s.


Chico

A diminutive of the male given name Francisco, from Portuguese.


Kourtney

A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Courtney.


Khloé

A fanciful spelling variant of Chloe, made known in the 2000s by an American TV personality.

A female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage.


Khloe

Variant of Khloé, a fanciful spelling variant of Chloe, made known in the 2000s by American TV personality Khloé Kardashian.


Ingvaeonic

From Latin Ingaevōnēs + -ic. The first element is of Germanic origin and could mean "descendant of Yngvi."

(linguistics) North Sea Germanic, a postulated grouping of the West Germanic languages that comprises Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon (and their descendants).


Stanhope

The British placenames are from Old English stan (“stone”) + hōp (“valley”).

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


Conan

From Middle Irish Conán, from Primitive Irish ᚉᚑᚅᚐᚅᚅ (conann), a derivative of Proto-Celtic *kū (“dog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.


Teagan

* (male): A diminutive of the Irish male name Tadhg, from tadhg (“poet”)
* (female): A variant of Tegan, from Welsh tegan (“pet, darling”)

A female given name from Welsh, variant of Tegan.

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


Tegan

* (female): 20th-century coinage from Welsh tegan (“pet, darling”).
* (surname): Transferred use of Irish Ó Tadhgáin, a surname.
* (male): From Teagan, from a diminutive of Irish Tadhg.

Janet Fielding's Tegan also says goodbye to Doctor Who in "Resurrection of the Daleks," and her farewell has an abrupt air to it.[…]Tegan simply has a temper tantrum and says she has seen too much violence. She then runs off into a warehouse and disappears.

1999, John Kenneth Muir, A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television, page 339:

The lad felt most honoured when Tegan called him her best friend.

2007, Christine Jones, Mariard, Volume 1: The Gifting, page 68

Canadian indie-rock duo Tegan and Sara Quin have spent a lifetime answering the question: "So which one of you is which?"

2007 August, Barry Walters, “How To Tell Tegan From Sara”, in Spin, page 44:

Following a restless and difficult day, Tegan, who is 11 weeks old, falls asleep cuddled up with her mother Carys on the sofa.

2011, Catherine Powell, Safeguarding And Child Protection For Nurses, Midwives And Health Visitors, page 126:

'But,' Tegan prompted, pulling Elise toward him like he wanted something firm to hold onto. 'But it was empty.'

2008, Lara Adrian, Midnight Awakening, published 2013, unnumbered page:

A male given name from Irish. Alternative form of Teagan.


Digby

en-proper noun

Digby (countable and uncountable, plural Digbies)

From Old English dīc (“dyke”) + Old Norse býr (“settlement”).
The town in Nova Scotia is named after admiral Robert Digby (1732 - 1815).

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Abood

Variation of Abboud, from Arabic عَابُّود (ʕābbūd).


Tarascan

Spanish tarasco, from a Purepecha word meaning indistinctly "father-in-law" or "son-in-law".


Algic

Blend of Allegheny + Atlantic. Coined by Henry Schoolcraft in his Algic Researches (1839) from the names of the Allegheny River and the Atlantic Ocean.

An indigenous language family of North America, comprising Wiyot, Yurok, and many Algonquian languages.


Janey

From Jane + -y, q.v.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.

doublet

A diminutive of the female given name Jane.


Cordelia

/kɔːˈdiːlɪə/

Shakespeare's spelling of a historical British name appearing as Cordeilla, etc., possibly derived from the Latin saint's name Cordula.

What shall Cordelia do? Love, and be silent.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

"I don't believe I've ever run into a Delia before." "Well, it's Cordelia, really. My father named me that." "And are you one?" "Am I one what?" "Are you your father's Cordelia?"

1995, Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years, Knopf, →ISBN, page 8:


Dickon

Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold,
 For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

Dickon stood rubbing his rusty-red head with a rather puzzled look. "It's a secret garden sure enough," he said, "but seems like some one besides th' robin must have been in it since it was shut up ten year' ago."

1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden:

(dated) A diminutive of the male given name Richard.


Jafaican

2006, June: Archibald St John Smith, How British is That?!: The Eccentric British Guide Book, pages 33–34 (Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited; →ISBN
Forget Cockney, Brummie, Geordie and Scouse, according to the Daily Mail — who else? — Jafaican is laying siege to our inner-city accents and is infiltrating the sacred English language. Soon we may all be familiar with creps (trainers), yard (home), yoot (child), blud (mate) and bitch (girlfriend).

[…] from Cockney, or East London, terminology to a style called “Jafaican”, which has elements of Jamaican and African street talk.

2007 March 16, Debbie Stowe, Paul Stump, Who is Borat?: The Unauthorized Biography of Sacha Baron Cohen, Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, page 122, →ISBN:

She is frowning, hiding her nervousness of Suzy’s presence behind the Jafaican babble.

2007 June 28, María Alvarez, Mirror, Mirror, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 88, →ISBN:

One part of segregation not immediately obvious is language. I do not mean someone unable to speak the English language, although that is another variation on it; I mean the usage of ‘street’ talk or ‘Jafaican’ as it is sometimes referred to.

2007 December 17, Bobby Smith, Margaret Oshindele-Smith, One Love Two Colours: The Unlikely Marriage of a Punk Rocker and His African Queen, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, pages 197–198:

In the early section of this chapter, I discussed attitudes to British Patois, a variety used by members of the West Indian community in Britain. While attitudes are always changing, and new varieties of Black English, such as Jafaican, are said to be developing, […]

2008, January: Janet Holmes, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, page 413 (3rd edition; Pearson Education; →ISBN, 9781405821315)

a. 2009, Ignacio Ramos, A. Jesús Moya Guijarro, and José Ignacio Albentosa Hernández [eds.], New Trends in English Teacher Education, page 209 (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; →ISBN
In terms of its characteristics, MLE is anchored to a large extent in Jamaican Creole, throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s a competitor to Cockney. But Kerswill et al report that it has now encompassed and synthesized elements of everything from Cockney and African English to Hindi, Bangladeshi languages and Arabic. For this reasons it is sometimes called, erroneously, “Hinglish” or “Jafaican”.

Multicultural London English
Multicultural London English

(informal, also used attributively) Multicultural London English.


Roumanian

en-adj

Roumanian (comparative more Roumanian, superlative most Roumanian)

more Roumanian (comparative)
most Roumanian (superlative)


Centre of the Universe

The announcer finished the report with, “All is well in the Centre of the Universe; the Toronto Maple Leafs won a hockey game last night.” I loved it. That sentiment will keep Canada together long after the politicians have finished[…]

2004, Barry D. Stewart, Across the Land --a Canadian Journey of Discovery, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 96:

Back in the centre of the universe – Toronto, the 'vortex' of all known Canadian culture, most of the gigs were self-promoted, presented in the unused basement room of a hotel or the back room of a hip café.

2011, William (Bill) E. Smith, Bill Smith, Rant & Dawdle: The Fictional Memoir of Colston Willmott, Charivari Press, →ISBN, page 285:

No one is credited with coming up with the definitive jab at Toronto—the Centre of the Universe—and thus some sharp wit squandered a million-dollar trademark opportunity.

2017 October 31, Gare Joyce, Young Leafs: The Making of a New Hockey History, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 67:

(slang, Canada, derogatory) The city of Toronto, due to its perceived self-absorbed haughty attitude.


Cererian

/səˈɹɪəɹɪ.ən/

From Latin Cereris, genitive case of Cerēs.

cererian (alternative)
Cererean (alternative)
Ceresian (alternative)
Cerean (alternative)

Sprinkled with salt and Cererean grain

1823, William Booth, “Nasidien”, in Flowers of Roman poesy, page 42:

An untilled soil its yearly growth of grain Cererian yields

1878, William Thomas Thornton, “Epode 16”, in Word for word from Horace, page 314:

As a divinity of the earth, Mefitis shows in fact two aspects: cererian, she is goddess of plowing [...], and chthonian

1986, Sarah Iles Johnston, The Journal of Indo-European studies, volume 14, page 44:

We find, for example, at Agnone a "Cererian" Hercules and at Rossano a "Mefitanian" Mamers (= Mars); presumably these two major Italic divinities, Hercules and Mamers, were the "guests" of Ceres and Mefitis

2004, Sarah Iles Johnston, Religions of the ancient world, page 233:

Of or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres

Most of the ship's mass would be Cererian water; Earth would supply the crew, the ship's skin, and the engines. Ceres' surface gravity is about ¹/₃₆ Earth's gravity, and the asteroid is just close enough to the sun for it to power the machinery. Cererian water may unlock the solar system.

2006 August, Tom Buckner, “Letters”, in Discover Magazine:

Brucite itself has not been observed in meteorites in the amounts implied by Ceres' spectrum, which seems to minimize the likelihood that any Cererean material has been found by meteorite hunters.

2012, A.S. Rivkin et al., “The Surface Composition of Ceres”, in Christopher Russell, Carol Raymond,, editors, The Dawn Mission to Minor Planets 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres, page 109:

Vesta is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth and its maximum distance from the Sun is slightly farther than the minimum distance of Ceres from the Sun (2.56AU). However its orbit lies entirely within the Cererian orbit.

2012 September 21, “Dawn Spacecraft Finds Traces of Water on Vesta”, in Sci-Tech Daily:

Of or relating to the dwarf planet–asteroid Ceres


Cererian

Cererians (plural)
cererian (alternative)
Cererean (alternative)
Ceresian (alternative)
Cerean (alternative)

/səˈɹɪəɹɪ.ən/

Future, home-born Cererians will presumably become better adapted to their low gravitational environment

2009, Martin Beech, Terraforming, page 225:


Ganymedean

/ˌɡænəmɪˈdiː.ən/

(astronomy) Of or relating to the Jovian moon named for Ganymede, the largest in the Solar system.


Ganymedean

/ˌɡænəmɪˈdiː.ən/

(science fiction, demonym) An inhabitant of Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter).


Enceladan

(science fiction, demonym) An inhabitant of Enceladus (a moon of Saturn).


Charonian

/kəˈɹoʊnɪən/

/ʃəˈɹoʊnɪən/

From Charon + -ian, or from the alternative Latin oblique stem Charōnis.

The Charonians were proud of their frozen hell. Styxville was like Plutopolis, only less so.

1990, Donald Moffitt, A Gathering of Stars:

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

Charonian staircase

a flight of steps from under the stage in ancient Greek theatre; used by arrivals from Hades.


Venerian

Venerian (comparative more Venerian, superlative most Venerian)

more Venerian (comparative)
most Venerian (superlative)

From Middle English venerien, either from Old French venerien or from Latin Venerius.


Mirandan

(astronomy) Of or relating to the Neptunian moon named for Miranda.


Rutul

The Lezgic (Northeast Caucasian) language of the Rutul people


Pitta-Pitta

Pitapita (alternative)
Pitta Pitta (alternative)
Pita Pita (alternative)
Pitha-Pitha (alternative)
Bida-Bida (alternative)
Bidhabidha (alternative)

An extinct Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language formerly spoken over a large region of western Queensland in the vicinity of Boulia.


Wageman

Wagiman (alternative)
Wakiman (alternative)
Wogeman (alternative)

An Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Northern Territory in Australia


Worimi

An Australian Aboriginal language spoken in New South Wales.


scoutcraft

en-noun

scoutcraft (plural scoutcrafts or scoutcraft)

scoutcrafts (plural)
scoutcraft (plural)

Enemy scoutcraft, extreme range.

1994, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, By Honor Betray'd:

In August 1954 a Venusian scoutcraft allegedly flew Adamski around the moon, showing him extraterrestrial cities and hangars as well as forests, lakes, and rivers.

1999, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 7:

He flies around the Galaxy all alone in just a little tiny scoutcraft?

2001, Douglas Kendall, Battle of Infinity City, page 298:

In the ensuing years it had never come to that, yet every scoutcraft was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism, and every commander was prepared at all times to activate it.

2006, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers From The Sky, Pocket Books, page 32:

The nearer they closed in; tiny scoutcrafts could be seen continuingly migrating to and from them.

2013, Chris J. Berry, The Celestial Window, page 137:

(rare, science fiction, ufology) A spacecraft used for scouting.


Tamasheq

Tamachek (alternative)
Tamashek (alternative)

A southern Tuareg (Berber) language spoken primarily in Mali.


Inupiatun

Nouns in Inupiatun may be singular, dual, or plural.

2006, Ernest S. Burch, Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The Structure of Iñupiaq Eskimo Nations:


Mimantian

en-adj

Mimantian (comparative more Mimantian, superlative most Mimantian)

more Mimantian (comparative)
most Mimantian (superlative)


Sarcee

A native Canadian language of the Na-Dene family, spoken in Alberta.


Bonifatius

From Late Latin Bonifātius, from bonus (“good”) + fātum (“fate”). See also Boniface.

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


Boniface

A male given name from Latin of mainly historical use.


Middle Latin

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

A form of the Latin language used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but also as a language of science, literature, law, and administration.


Yue

Borrowed from Mandarin 粵／粤 (yuè) or Mandarin 越 (yuè).

Yueh (alternative)
Yüeh (alternative)
Viet (alternative)
Việt (alternative)
Yuht (alternative)
Jyut (alternative)

The Yue dialects are popularly known as the Cantonese dialects. [...] The speech of Canton City, which is Cantonese in its narrower sense, is the best known and most generally esteemed of the Yue dialects.

1989, S. Robert Ramsey, The Languages of China, page 98:

One form of Yue—that of Canton—has provided an umbrella term for the whole [language] complex—Cantonese.

2000, George L. Campbell, “YUE (Cantonese)”, in Compendium of the World's Languages, page 1793:

The modern variety of Chinese, which includes Cantonese and Taishanese.


Opals

From opal, a gemstone mined in Australia.

Carrie Graf knows about coaching creative individual players, as she has coached women′s basketball superstar Lauren Jackson, who shot to fame as a 15-year-old and joined the Australian women′s Opals basketball team by 16.

2001, Australian Sports Commission, edited by Frank S. Pyke, Better Coaching: Advanced Coach′s Manual, 2nd edition, page 227:

This, combined with a sycophantic basketball press in Australia, created a weight of expectation that was slowly crushing the young player. Four months before the Olympics, Opals coach Maher lamented that he was having ‘a few too many’ talks with her on how to cope.

2002, Cameron Stewart, “High Hopes”, in Garrie Hutchinson, editor, The Best Australian Sports Writing, 2002, page 38:

She′d made the train on squad for the Australian Opals basketball team and also played rugby for the Sydney University woman′s team.

2009, Nick Ireland, The Popondetta Butterfly, page 34:

(chiefly Australia) The women's national basketball representative team of Australia.

Australia women's national basketball team


Tall Blacks

Derived from All Blacks, the nickname of the New Zealand national rugby union team, with "All" replaced by "Tall" in reference to the often well-above-average height of basketball players.

the men's national basketball representative team of New Zealand


All Whites

From the all-white strip traditionally worn by the team. Also a play on the All Blacks, the New Zealand national rugby union team.

association football
association football

The men's national association football (soccer) representative team of New Zealand.


Slavey

From French Esclave, a calque of a Cree name, as the Cree called these people (and several other traditional enemies) slaves. In English, the final e came to be pronounced as if Slave were a native name; this pronunciation was first written Slavé and later Slavey.
The names of the Slave River, Lesser Slave River, Great Slave Lake and Lesser Slave Lake do not necessarily derive from the people now known as Slavey in English.

A language spoken by the Slavey peoples.


Xanthe

From Ancient Greek Ξανθή (Xanthḗ, literally “blond-haired”), from ξανθός (xanthós, “yellow”).

bor

"So that was Xanthe," she said in a musing tone.
"You're thinking it's a misnomer ,aren't you," Liam said.
"What?"
"Xanthe. It means 'golden'."
"Well, I'm sure she's very pleasant as a rule."
Liam had been referring to Xanthe's coloring―her brown hair and level dark eyebrows.

2009, Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass, Vintage, →ISBN, page 165:

Maura looked at her in bafflement. What had this to do with her? She knew no one called Xanthe. What sort of name was that, anyway?

2012, Anna Jacobs, The Trader's Dream, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Isadore

A non-standard variant of Isidore, possibly inspired by the well-known feminine variant Isadora of Isidora.


Albina

From Latin Albina (name of a third-century martyr), feminine form of the Roman cognomen Albīnus, derivative of Latin albus (“white”).


Kez

She grabbed Kerry by the shoulders. Kez was still screaming. Vicki shook her. “Kerry, it's not real,” she whispered.

2003, Sue Simpson, Keepers of the Quantum: Lizard's Leap Two:

She doesn't like the way he orders Kerry around either. 'Kez'll make ya one,' he'd said automatically when Madeline said she'd love a nice cup of tea.

2004, Margaret Metz, Live by the Bottle:

A diminutive of the female given name Kerry.


Bua

’Ba (alternative)
Boa (alternative)
Boua (alternative)
Bwa (alternative)


Wenceslaus

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

Latinization of a Slavic (Old Czech) name, from Proto-Slavic *Vęťeslavъ (from *vęťьjь (“greater, more”) + *slava (“fame, glory”)). Doublet of Vyacheslav.

der

A male given name from the Slavic languages.


Wenceslas

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

Good King Wenceslas look'd out, On the Feast of Stephen; / When the snow lay round about, Deep, and crisp, and e-ven: / Brightly shone the moon that night, Though the frost was cru-el, / When a poor man came in sight, Gath'ring win-ter fu-el.

1854, John Mason Neale, “Good King Wenceslas”, in J. M. Neale, T. Helmore, Carols for Christmas-tide: The Condensed Vocal Parts, London: Novello, →OCLC, page 37:


Lowland Scots

The Germanic language variety traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, as distinct from Scottish Gaelic.


Supyire

A language, of the Senufo group, spoken in southeastern Mali


Kenyan Sign Language

A particular sign language, used in Kenya.


Leora

Possibly a variant of the modern Israeli name transliterated as Liora, from Hebrew, ליאורה "my light", or an American contraction of Leonora.

"No, they're— What do they call you?"
"Me? Oh, it's an idiotic name—Leora Tozer."

1925, Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, chapter 6, section 3:


courtesy name

In CJKV cultures, a given name to be used later in life in place of one's given name, as a symbol of adulthood and respect.

Chiang Kai-shek
Liu Bowen
Sun Yat-sen
Zhao Yun
Zhuge Liang
courtesy name

字

given named to be used in later life in place of one's given name as a symbol of adulthood


Yasmin

Variant of Jasmine, often representing a transliteration of the corresponding Arabic and Persian names.


Llewellyn

Lewelling (alternative)
Llewelyn (alternative)
Flewellen (alternative)


Zamboanga Chavacano

From Spanish chabacano (“poor taste”) and Zamboanga.

A Spanish-based creole language spoken in the Philippines.


Makedonka

From Macedonian Македонка (Makedonka, “Macedonian girl”).

bor

Македонка Македонка#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Македонка (Makedonka)


Vietic

(linguistics) The Proto-Vietic language, the hypothetical last common ancestor of all Vietic languages.


Milo

Stevie didn't care. At least he didn't have an oddball name like Milo and he never had to get up for church on Sunday.

1989, Pat Cadigan, Patterns, Ursus Imprints, →ISBN, page 12:

Just one thing, if I may, Mark said. It's Miles, his name. Not Milo.
Yeah, I know, Anna's always going on about that too. But Milo's better, Milo's got something about it, hasn't it? the man said. It's catchier. It's catching on round the camp, Milo, where Miles sounds a bit, well, wet. A bit middle class, you know?

2011, Ali Smith, There but for the, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 191:

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Blasius

From Late Latin Blasius, name of a 3rd-4th century Armenian saint, possibly from Latin blaesus (“stammering”), or Latinized from an Ancient Greek name. Doublet of Blaise.


Blaise

Borrowed from Old French Blaise in the Middle Ages and revived partly due to the modern French equivalent, from Latin Blasius. Doublet of Blasius.

Blaize (alternative)
Blase (alternative)


Junior

A male given name, from a nickname for someone with the title [[Jr.] (junior).


Cerean

Cererian (alternative)
Cererean (alternative)

Pata'na was a Roman goddess who appears with greatly varied names, sometimes as a derivation from Ceres or a Cerean deity, and sometimes as Ceres herself.

1892, Charles Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains, published 2007, page 233:

Bouncing is something to be avoided in the low Cerean gravity: any bouncing here would have lifted me up against the café's green and white striped awning — and maybe on through it to interface violently with the 60 meters of carbonaceous chondrite rock that separate Clarkeville from the surface.

1994, Hayford Peirce, “Six Million Solid Gold Belter Buckles”, in Jonathan White: Stockbroker in Orbit, Wildside Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 45:

If so, a commonality of Cerean life with Terran and possible Martian life ... could provide a strong corroboration of the "Ceres origin" hypothesis.

2012, Joop M. Houtkooper, Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies, →ISBN, page 168:


Kimothy

An American 20th century coinage. Blend of Kim + Timothy?

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


Baure

An Arawakan language spoken in Beni, Bolivia.


Kayden

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

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


Cayden

A male given name originating as a coinage.


Staci

"Giselle? That's not the name on the documents — "
"Oh no." Bob gave her a sad smile. "Her real name was Staci, but she once studied ballet, and Jeb thought she was so graceful, with her big brown eyes. Like Bambi. So the pet name went from Gazelle to Giselle. - - -

1995, Sharyn McCrumb, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him, page 85:

A unisex given name from Ancient Greek, a 20th-century spelling variant of Stacy.


Sawney

Sawney Bean

But Sawney grew weary, and fain would be civil, / Being auld, and unfeary, and fail'd of his strength

1812, John Bell, Rhymes of Northern Bards, page 185:

A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, of Scots origin.


Nuri

“Generally CIPs draw individuals from countries whose passports offer very limited abilities to travel, such as China, Russia, and Middle Eastern countries,” Nuri Katz, founder of international financial advisory firm Apex Capital Partners, told CNN Travel in 2017.

2019 October 7, Kate Springer, “Passports for purchase: Open citizenship doors around the world”, in CNN:


Tai Dam

A Tai-Kadai (Kradai) language spoken by 700,000 people in Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and China written in its own unique script, closely related to Lao and northern Thai.


Lev

A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name Лев (Lev)


Terah

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

(very rare) A male given name from Hebrew.


Khasi

The Austroasiatic language of the Khasi people.


Sheba

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 20:1:

(very rare outside the Bible) A male given name from Hebrew.


Sheba

(dated, slang) A flapper (daring young woman of the Jazz Age).


Sheba

'I was kinda sweet on her my own self. Sheba Otis, her name was then.' I was surprised. 'She married a Queen? Which one?' 'Can't say.' He sighed. 'Her name's Bathsheba, but she never liked that much.'

1996, Martha Grimes, Hotel Paradise, Headline, →ISBN, page 172:


Judson

From a Middle English short form of the given name Jordan + son.

"Judd" was a name associated with a certain measure of sternness, sobriety, though in fact we Mulvaney children were rarely scolded and even more rarely punished: "Judson Andrew" which is my baptismal name was a name of such dignity and aspiration I never came to feel it could be mine, only something borrowed like a Hallowe'en mask.

1996, Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys, Harper Perennial, published 2007, →ISBN, page 4:

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Judd

From a Middle English short form of the given name Jordan.

A male given name from Hebrew, today often transferred back from the surname.


Sita

Borrowed from Sanskrit सीता (sītā, “furrow”).

It is only this late in the day, and possibly only in Willesden, that you can find best friends Sita and Sharon, constantly mistaken for each other because Sita is white (her mother liked the name) and Sharon is Pakistani (her mother thought it best — less trouble).

2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, pages 282–283:

A female given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.


Octavian

From Latin Octavianus, derivative of Octāvius.

(historical) A male given name from Latin, notably borne by Augustus (Caesar) between 44 and 27 BCE


Blaine

en-proper noun

Blaine (countable and uncountable, plural Blaines)

A male or unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Winblows

Blend of Windows + blows (in the slang sense where something that "blows" is worthless or inferior). First use appears c. 1997 in the periodical Working Woman.

Winblows regrets that it is "Not Justice Department Approved."

1998, Newsweek, Incorporated, Newsweek, Volume 131, page 12:

Ring me when Winblows becomes free, or when there are free dev tools for it!

1999, John Purcell (editor), Linux, The Complete Reference; The Advanced Reference · Book 2, page 319:

While many users run versions of Linux or Unix on their PCs, most PC users run some flavor of Windows (often referred to by Mac and Unix users as WinDoze or WinBlows).

2003, David Chappelle, Protect Yourself Online, How to Cover Your Assets Every Time You Log On, page 27:

(computing, slang, derogatory) The Microsoft Windows operating system.


Microshaft

Blend of Microsoft + shaft (in slang sense; see shafted).

(computing, slang, derogatory) The computer company Microsoft.


Munsee

From Munsee mŭnúsunk (“at the island”), from munús (“island”). Compare Minisink, a doublet from Munsee; cognate for example with Ojibwe minis (“island”), minising (“at the island”).

They stare at her like she’s just spoken in Munsee.

2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 298:

An endangered Eastern Algonquian language, one of the two Lenape/Delaware languages (the other is called Unami), spoken aboriginally in the vicinity of what is now New York City.


Padma

Borrowed from Sanskrit पद्म (padma, “lotus”), which the river was named for. Doublet of Pema.

bor+

A female given name from Sanskrit in India.


Sudanese Arabic

A dialect of Arabic spoken in northern Sudan.


Jennabeth

His secretary-administrative assistant, also a new Consortium staff member, is Jennabeth Ward, a recent graduate of the University of Texas.

1969, The San Francisco Consortium, Quarterly Newsletter, volumes 1-3, page 8:

A female given name originating as a coinage.


King's English

What, Iohn Rugby, I pray thee goe to the Caſement, and ſee if you can ſee my Maſter, Maſter Docter Caius comming: if he doe (I’faith) and finde any body in the houſe; here will be an old abuſing of Gods patience, and the Kings Engliſh.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 42, column 1:

"Spake it out, man," exclaimed the landlady; "spake it out in king's English; what for should ye be talking Indian in a room full of Christian folks?"

1823, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 13, in The Pioneers:

I venture to say that in a fifteen-minute conversation he would commit more horrible crimes against the king's English than even that new stable-boy of yours.

1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 14, in The Efficiency Expert:

The O.E.D. is unlike any other dictionary. . . . It wants every word, all the lingo: idioms and euphemisms, sacred or profane, dead or alive, the King’s English or the street’s.

2006 November 5, James Gleick, “Cyber-Neologoliferation”, in New York Times, retrieved 2010-08-15:

(often preceded by the) Especially in England, spoken or written English which is standard, characterised by grammatical correctness, proper usage of words and expressions, and (when spoken) formal British pronunciation.


Queen's English

But I am not so timid, and can speak the Queen's English plainly.

1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts”, in New Arabian Nights:

Picking up the different points of land was often the source of a joke, for our master was not blessed with the most perfect command of the Queen's English, and I overheard one morning the following nautical dialogue: "Look out, ahoy!" - speaking to the man in the foretop.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 33:

He murdered the Queen's English every time he spoke.

1913, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 22, in The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton:

In the movies, bankable Brits fall into one of two categories: those who live in stately homes and possess a firm grasp of the Queen's English, and those who live in cottages or tenements and possess accents thick enough to caulk boats.

2006 April 7, Jeanette Catsoulis, “Movie Review: On a Clear Day (2005)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2010-08-15:

They've obviously never met before, but are getting on like a house on fire. Both are well-spoken and versed in the Queen's English. [this was possibly written before Queen Elizabeth II died]

2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:


Wren

Originally a nickname from Middle English wrenne (“wren”).

"What's ironic," Alexandra said, "is that Mother named her Wren because as a newborn she reminded Mother of a shy bird. Little did she know."

2000, Rebecca Wade, A Wanted Woman, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 53:

(rare) A male or female given name from English from the noun wren.


Rach

A diminutive of the female given name Rachel.


Louisiana Creole French

Louisiana Creole
Louisiana Creole#English

(sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Louisiana Creole


adminiculate

en-verb

adminiculate (third-person singular simple present adminiculates, present participle adminiculating, simple past and past participle adminiculated)

adminiculates (present singular third-person)
adminiculating (participle present)
adminiculated (participle past)
adminiculated (past)

(transitive, Scots law) To prove; to corroborate.


Reuel

These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 36:10:


Jyothis

/ˈd͡ʒoːt̪ɪs/

Borrowed from Sanskrit ज्योतिस् (jyotis, literally “light”).


Middle Armenian

Middle period of the Armenian language, written down in the 11-17th centuries. Developed from Old Armenian, replaced by modern Armenian.


Sylheti

From Sylhet + -i. Compare সিলেটি (śileṭi), سِلْهَتِيّ (silhatiyy), ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ (síloṭi).

A language or a dialect of Bengali spoken in the Sylhet Division of north-eastern Bangladesh, the Barak Valley of the Indian state of Assam and some parts of the Indian state of Tripura.


absolvitor

Borrowed from Latin absolvitor (literally “let him be acquitted”), the third-person singular future passive imperative form of absolvō (“I absolve, acquit, or declare innocent”). Compare absolutory.

bor

Pitmedden purſues Seaton of Menzies as Repreſenting his Father, who was one of the Purſuers Brothers Tutors, for his Fathers Intromiſſion with the Pupils Means, who alleadged Abſolvitor.

1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575

The Dictionary of the Scots Language
w:Dictionary of the Scots Language

Scottish Language Dictionaries
w:Scottish Language Dictionaries

(Scots law) A decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.


Jaz

A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.

I know, from picking up the post from the hall in the mornings, that Jaz has a mother in Northumbria who thinks her daughter's name is Janette. That jaunty z is but a wedge of lemon stuck into a bottle of beer.

1995, Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire, Heinemann, published 1996, →ISBN, page 5:

A diminutive of the female given name Janet or Janette.


Unity

Hitler, it seemed, had two engagements in Munich that day; one was a visit with Unity Mitford, a Nazi sympathizer belonging to the well-known British Mitford family, who was recovering in a Munich hospital from an attempted suicide.

1996, John H. Waller, The Unseen War in Europe:


Cori

Corie (alternative)
Corrie (alternative)
Cory (alternative)
Corey (alternative)
Kori (alternative)
Kory (alternative)
Korey (alternative)

(rare) A female given name, masculine equivalent Corey.


Kori

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


Korey

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


Augie

A diminutive of the male given name Augustus, from Latin.


Proto-Malayo-Polynesian

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


Agesilaus

From Ancient Greek Ἀγησίλαος (Agēsílaos).

A male given name from Ancient Greek of certain historical persons.


West Germanic

(linguistics) The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.


Xan

A diminutive of the male given name Alexander.

A diminutive of the female given name Alexandra.


Ike

A diminutive of the male given name Isaac.


Adioukrou

Adjukru (alternative)
Adyoukrou (alternative)
Adyukru (alternative)
Ajukru (alternative)

A language spoken in the south of the Ivory Coast, chiefly in the subprefecture of Dabou.


Marnie

Possibly a contraction of Marina or a diminutive of Marian.

"Marnie?" she said slowly, reading the name on the cover. "But how did you know? Marian was always called Marnie-"

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

A female given name from Latin or Hebrew.


Baghdadian

Baghdadians (plural)
Bagdadian (alternative)


Saffy

A diminutive of the female given name Saffron.

A diminutive of the female given name Sapphire.


Carrier

en-proper noun

Carrier (countable and uncountable, plural Carriers)

A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three separate languages: Southern Carrier, Northern Carrier and Central Carrier.


Westman Islander

en-noun

Westman Islander (plural Westman Islanders)


Lettie

A diminutive of the female given name Letitia or Lettice.


Dogrib

From dog + rib, a calque of Dogrib Tłı̨chǫ (“dog-flank”), from tłı̨ (“dog”) + echǫǫ̀ (“rib area, flank”), the dog-flank people, from a traditional legend.


Gwich'in

Gwitchin (alternative)
Kutchin (alternative)


Inuinnaqtun

A language or dialect of Inuktitut spoken by some Inuit.


Koro

an unwritten Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the East Kameng district


Kabardian

A North Caucasian language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, also known as East Circassian.

къэбэртай

language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia

卡巴爾達語 /卡巴尔达语

Kǎbā‘ěrdá yǔ


East Germanic

en-adj

East Germanic (comparative more East Germanic, superlative most East Germanic)

more East Germanic (comparative)
most East Germanic (superlative)

Of or relating to the East Germanic languages, a subdivision of the Germanic languages.

Oost-Germaans

of or relating to East Germanic languages


Arretine

From Latin ārrētīnus, from Ārrētium (“Arezzo”) + -īnus (relation suffix).

Of, from or pertaining to Arezzo, Italy.


Ata

A Papuan language spoken on New Britain island, Papua New Guinea.


Romulan

From Romulus + -an. From the Star Trek franchise, in which they are described as being from the planet Romulus, drawing inspiration from the Roman origin story of Romulus and Remus.

"Some sort of Romulan game," Riker said thoughtfully. "Trying to make us guess what they're up to."

1999, Peter Allen David, Double or Nothing:

"He looks like a Romulan." Suddenly, her attention is focused on him and she calls across the street, "Hey, monkey Romulan, sort it out!"

...the law vaporizes like a Romulan warrior into the ions of space.

2001, Michael W McConnell, Robert F Cochran, Angela C Carmella, Christian perspectives on legal thought:

A member of a fictional alien race, described as being cunning and opportunistic.


Romulan

constructed language
constructed language#English

A fictional language and a constructed language. The fictional language of the Romulans, a fictional extraterrestrial race from Star Trek. Created words and phrases from Star Trek have been latterly expanded upon to create a constructed language, that some among the Star Trek fandom attempt to build into a usable language.


plagium

en-noun

plagium (usually uncountable, plural plagiums)

From Latin plagium (“kidnapping”), compare plagiarism, probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).

(Scots law) abduction, especially of a child


Baruch

Borrowed from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ (Barukh, “blessed”). Cognate with Arabic بَارَك (bārak, “Barak”).


Sogdian

An extinct Middle Iranian language spoken around Sogdiana.


Deep North

(Australia, sometimes derogatory) Queensland, sometimes with the addition of the Northern Territory.


Upper Lusatian

a Slavic language spoken in part of Saxony


Lower Lusatian

a Slavic language spoken in part of Brandenburg


Undine

From German Undine (“undine”), first used as a given name in the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and in 19th-century operas based on the book.

The child, on the contrary, would by no means listen to this, declaring she had been called Undine by her parents, and Undine she would still be called. Now this seemed to me a Pagan name, which stood in no calendar, and therefore I took counsel of a priest in the city.

1818 Translation by George Soane of Undine (1811) by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, W.Simpkin and R. Marshall, pages 24-25

(rare outside fiction) A female given name from Latin.


Old Georgian

A language of the South Caucasian family, spoken between the 5ᵗʰ Century BC and the 17ᵗʰ Century AD when it evolved into the modern Georgian language.


Gershom

From Hebrew גֵּרְשֹׁם (gershóm, “Gershom”), found in Exodus.

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 2:21-22:


Mannie

A diminutive of the male given name Emmanuel.


Tajik Persian

Tajiki (variety of the Persian language)


Mannaean

the language of these people, possibly related to Hurrian


Big Nambas

From the size of the nambas, or penis sheath, worn by the men.

Their language, belonging to Oceanic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family.


Church Latin

The Latin language as spoken, written, and used in the Christian church and in church services.


Kag-Fer-Jiir-Koor-Ror-Us-Zuksun

A compound of the names of seven of its eight principal dialects. (The omitted dialect is Kur, also called Keri-Ni, Keli-Ni or Kelinchi, and not to be confused with Koor.)

A Niger-Congo language spoken in Nigeria.


Proto-Armenian

The reconstructed ancestor of the Armenian language.


Indo-Uralic

en-adj

Indo-Uralic (comparative more Indo-Uralic, superlative most Indo-Uralic)

more Indo-Uralic (comparative)
most Indo-Uralic (superlative)

Perhaps the most widely accepted proposal is of an Indo-Uralic family, encompassing PIE and Proto-Uralic.

2007, Carlos Quiles, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Indo-European Association, →ISBN, page 38:

2008, Adam Hyllested, “Internal reconstruction vs. external comparison: the case of the Indo-Uralic laryngeals”, in Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, Thomas Olander, editors, Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European: Methods, Results, and Problems, Museum Tusculanum Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 111:

Of or relating to both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages; especially, of or pertaining to a proposed language family containing both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages.


Indo-Uralic

Other proposals, further back in time (and correspondingly less accepted), model PIE as a branch of Indo-Uralic with a Caucasian substratum; […]

2007, Carlos Quiles, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Indo-European Association, →ISBN, page 39:

The Indo-Uralic languages: a proposed language family containing both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages.


Americanese

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have shattered the myth that Americanese has taken an unshakeable hold on the Anglophone world.

2010, Paul Bignell, Queen's English still rules: We say tomato... as does most of the world:

(informal, often derogatory) American English


Sinitic

Sinitic (comparative more Sinitic, superlative most Sinitic)

more Sinitic (comparative)
most Sinitic (superlative)

From Latin Sīna (“China”) + -itic, as in Semitic.

չին-տիբեթական

relating to the group of Chinese languages


lenocinium

Borrowed from Latin lenocinium (“pimping, prostitution”).

bor

(Scots law) A husband's connivance at his wife's adultery.


Liturgical Armenian

Old Armenian (language). The language is still used in some contexts by the Armenian Church, e.g. in some prayers and in monumental inscriptions.


Vyomesh

From Sanskrit [Term?]. Derived from two independent words vyom (space, universe) and esh (god, master). The combined meaning indicates Mahavishnu or Shiva.

A male given name from Sanskrit used in Hindu communities.


Pleasance

From an Old French female given name Plaisance, from plaisance (“pleasance”). The surname is partly matronymic, partly habitational from the Italian town of Piacenza.

Similarly, the verse at the close of Through the Looking Glass is an acrostic for Alice Pleasance Liddell.

2008, Sherry L. Ackerman, Behind the Looking Glass, page 32:


Tereno

Language spoken in the Mato Grosso do Sul region of Brazil, written in the Latin script.


Cappadocian

/kæpəˈdəʊʃən/

Cappadocian Greek
Cappadocian Greek#English


Cornhusker

(informal) A native or resident of the American state of Nebraska.


cornhusker

(usually capitalized) A person who is a native or resident of the U.S. state of Nebraska.


Saskabusher

/ˈsæskəbʊʃɚ/

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


Na-Dene

Coined by Edward Sapir in 1915, from Tlingit naa and Athabaskan dene, both meaning people or tribe.

A major language family consisting of Tlingit, Eyak and the Athabascan languages, spoken in large parts of North America.


Nilo-Saharan

Belonging to the Nilo-Saharan language family, or pertaining to its associated peoples.


Japonic

/d͡ʒəˈpɒnɪk/

A language family spoken in Japan, consisting of Japanese proper and the Ryukyuan languages.

日本‐琉球語族

にほん-りゅうきゅうごぞく


Alacalufan

A minor language family spoken primarily in Chile.


Yukaghir

Borrowed from Russian юкагир (jukagir). The part yuka- may derive from Southern Yukaghir йуукэ (jūke, “far, distant”) or juk (“small”), if not from a word from some other language, because the most common endonyms used by Yukaghirs are Southern Yukaghir одул (odul) and Northern Yukaghir вадул (wadul). The suffix -ghir is likely from Evenki -гир (-gir), which is a very common ending in names of Evenki, Even and Orochon tribes.

der

(linguistics) A language family consisting of two closely related languages spoken in Siberia.


Shamika

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


Ket

The Yeniseian language of the Ket people.


Dene-Yeniseian

A proposed language family linking the Na-Dene languages of North America and the Yeniseian languages of Siberia.


Kaiden

A male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden or Kayden.


Tai-Kadai

From Tai + Kadai. Coined by Paul K. Benedict in 1942.

Synonym of Kra-Dai (“a major language family spoken in large parts of Southeast Asia”)


Wiyot

The now-extinct Algic language of the Wiyot people.


Uncle Joe

"Of course, it's just the thing for the Russians. They couldn't want anything better. Unconditional surrender," he repeated, thoughtfully sucking a tooth. "Uncle Joe might have made it up himself."

1943, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, quoted in, 1974, Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It

"It won't get that far. The Politburo is is too circumspect," said the DDI.[…]
"Tell that to Leon Trotsky," Ritter said sharply.
"That was personal. Stalin wanted to eat his liver with onions and gravy," Greer replied. "That was pure personal hatred, and it achieved nothing on the political level."
"Not the way Uncle Joe looked at it. He was genuinely afraid of Trotsky—"


liferent

en-noun

liferent (countable and uncountable, plural liferents)

The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this.

1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240:

(Scots law) The right to receive for life the benefits of a property or other asset, without the right to dispose of it.


Nar Phu

A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nepal.


Ao

Their language, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family.


RPattz

R-Pattz (alternative)
R.Pattz (alternative)
RPatts (alternative)


JBiebs

Blend of J(ustin) + Biebs (from Bieber), modelled on other abbreviations such as J-Lo.

blend

from <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Bieber</i>

(slang) The Canadian singer Justin Bieber.


Chandra

Chander (alternative)
Shandra (alternative)


Nigella

A 19th-century flower name from nigella. Compare also the male given name Nigel.

Sarah asked if Nigella's momma was a poet because she certainly had a lyrical ear for a name.

2005, Renee W. Campoy, Case Study Analysis in the Classroom, SAGE, →ISBN, page 165:

(rare) A female given name from English.


Vikram

From Hindi विक्रम (vikram), from Sanskrit विक्रम (vikrama).


Myfanwy

Myvanwy (alternative)
:commons:Category:Myvanwy (given name) (alternative)


Barcelonian

Barcelonians (plural)
Barcelonan (alternative)


Madrileño

en-adj

Madrileño (comparative more Madrileño, superlative most Madrileño)

more Madrileño (comparative)
most Madrileño (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Madrid, or to its inhabitants.


Zaragozan

Saragossan; someone from Saragossa (Zaragoza)


Sevillian

Sevillians (plural)
Sevillan (alternative)


Malagan

[…] in his handling of this affair; a Malagan ambassador praised his foresight and wisdom, which resulted in peace and tranquility in Malaga.

1974, Andrew Handler, The Zīrids of Granada:

From Málaga or otherwise related to the city of Málaga.


Bilbaoan

During the French occupation, Bilbaoans were likely to have been exposed to some French culture and influence.

1989, Barbara Rosen, Arriaga the Forgotten Genius: The Short Life of a Basque Composer:

Only about 10 percent of Bilbaoans speak Euskara, as compared with 35 to 40 percent of the inhabitants of Donostia. Such a contradiction is at the very core of both the difficulties and the dynamism of the Basque Country.

2007, William A. Douglass, Joseba Zulaika, Basque culture: anthropological perspectives:


Navarran

Navarran (comparative more Navarran, superlative most Navarran)

more Navarran (comparative)
most Navarran (superlative)


South Slavic

of or relating to this language family or to the South Slavs.

nashke

of or relating to South Slavic or the South Slavs


Old Korean

The earliest stage of the Korean language, written in hanja, which evolved into Middle Korean by the 10ᵗʰ or 13ᵗʰ century, depending on the analysis.


Jaya

Borrowed from Sanskrit जय (jaya, literally “victory”).

bor+

(India) A female given name from Sanskrit.


Middle Easterner

en-noun

Middle Easterner (plural Middle Easterners)

A person from or originating from the Middle East.


New Norwegian

Nynorsk; Norwegian as spoken after 1500, and the written language that is based on this

nynorsk

the latest phase of the Norwegian language, spoken after 1500

նոր նորվեգերեն

one of the two major Norwegian (written) languages


De'ang

An ethnic minority group found in Southern China and Burma. Languages spoken in regions populated by this group include Palé, Riang, Rumai, and Shwe, all of which belong to the Palaungic sub-group of the Khasi-Khmuic family of languages.


Volscian

An Italic language formerly spoken by the Volsci and becoming extinct sometime after the 3rd century BC.


flyover state

Coordinate term: flyover country

(US, mildly derogatory) Any state of the United States that is often passed over by intercoastal or transcontinental flights, rather than being a popular destination.


Yazgulyam

Yazghulami (alternative)
Yazgulyami (alternative)
Iazgulem (alternative)
Yazgulam (alternative)


reprobator

(Scots law, historical) An old form of action to prove a witness to be perjured or biased.


Clay

en-proper noun

Clay (countable and uncountable, plural Clays)

From a Middle English occupational name for a clay worker, or a habitational name, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”).

When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder.

1968, Patrick White, “Clay”, in The Burnt Ones, Penguin Books, page 114:

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.


Sunda

Indonesian Pasundan (“former Sunda Kingdom area such as West Java, Banten and western Central Java”)

uder

Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the western part of the Malay archipelago

Sunda Strait, the strait between Java and Sumatra


Williamite

We fought for the royal Stuarts that reneged us against the Williamites and they betrayed us.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 316:

A follower of William III of England who deposed James II in the Glorious Revolution.


Williamite

en-adj

Williamite (comparative more Williamite, superlative most Williamite)

more Williamite (comparative)
most Williamite (superlative)

For whether King James, or K. William prevails, all our ancient Privileges ſeem expiring; and we are threatened, on all ſides, with Military and Arbitrary Government, unleſs we make a Tender of the Crown upon the Terms of the Conſtitution, to the King we have hitherto Abdicated, and who cannot, in common Honeſty, and according to the genuine ſignification of the Word, be ſaid to have abdicated his Crown, till he refuſes it upon thoſe Terms; which if he ſhould, the Diſtinction of His and the Williamite Party would ſoon have an End, […]

[1689?], Better Late than Never, →OCLC, signature A, recto, column 1:

For to whom ſhould I dedicate a Book of this kind, I mean ſuch a Williamite one, if I may be allowed to ſpeak ſtill in our late Dialect, if not to your Grace?

1702, Robert Fleming [the younger], “To His Grace James, Duke of Queensberry, &c.”, in The Blessedness of Those Who Die in the Lord: A Practical Discourse Occasioned by the Death of King William; wherein a Character of Him is Given. […], London: […] Andrew Bell […], →OCLC, page iv:

The poems reprinted here ought to enter some partial exceptions to the rule that between the reigns of James II and of Queen Anne the one poetic exception is Dryden. In these publicly crowded years he gave the world, from his retirement, or exile, the Satires of 1693, the Virgil of 1697, and the Fables of 1700. But he would not be drawn over to the King’s side, and the student of poetry must look to less familiar writers if he is to find anything of a Williamite character worth his attention.

1974, Earl Miner, “Introduction”, in Augustan Reprint Society, Poems on the Reign of William III (1690, 1696, 1699, 1702) (Publication Number 166), Los Angeles, Calif.: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, →OCLC, page i:

A war which for many who supported it in England was waged in defence of the Protestant religion and against popish idolatory, had its supporters in Scotland too, primarily Revolutioners, that is Williamite whigs and presbyterians, some of whom were even more fervent in their commitment to the Protestant cause than their English brethren.

2006, Christopher A[llan] Whatley with Derek J. Patrick, “War, Trade and Tariffs”, in The Scots and the Union, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, chapter 4 (The 1690s: a nation in crisis), page 157:

(historical) Of or relating to the reign of William III of England from 1689 to 1702.

Of or relating to his followers who deposed James II in the Glorious Revolution.


Midlander

The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.

2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:

A native or inhabitant of the English Midlands.


Kip

A diminutive of the male given name Kipling.


Ambers

A diminutive of the male given name Ambrose, from Ancient Greek.


Audie

The Haney Lees, the Snow Warrens, and the Jake Bowens always referred to him by his middle name. He had asked the Haney Lees to call him "Leon", as he thought that "Audie sounded like a girl's name".

1975 Harold B. Simpson, Audie Murphy, American Soldier, Hill Jr. College Press, page 22


Audie

I am joined in congratulating the Murillo's by their own children, Lynn "Nay" Valbuena, Audrey "Audie" Martinez, and George "Boy" Murillo, - - -

2002 (U.S.) Congressional Record, V.148, Pt.3, March 11, 2002 to April 10, 2002, page 3877

A diminutive of the female given name Audrey.