Wuhanese

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

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


Proto-Atayalic

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Atayalic languages.


Proto-Chamic

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Chamic languages.


Proto-Bungku-Tolaki

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


Purity

A female given name from English from the virtue purity.


Pacific Northwesterner

en-noun

Pacific Northwesterner (plural Pacific Northwesterners)

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

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

A resident of the Pacific Northwest region of North America.


Cascadian

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

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

A resident of the Cascadia bioregion of North America.


CPB

Communist Party of Britain
w:Communist Party of Britain

(UK politics) Initialism of Communist Party of Britain.


Lefkosian

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


Lefkosian

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


Solano

The little-known extinct language spoken by the Solano.


Nero

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

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

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


Shayna

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


South Ossetian

A person from South Ossetia or of South Ossetian descent.

eteläossetialainen

person from or descended from South Ossetia


Huaorani

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

der

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


Robsten

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Borismania

2012 October 8, James Kirkup, The Telegraph:

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


TomKat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Bennifer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


ǂHoan

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

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

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

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

A Khoisan language of Botswana, also called ǂHõã.


Tujia

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

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


ecnomid

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


Montana Salish

A Salishan language spoken in parts of Washington and Montana.


Karaim

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

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

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

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

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

karaiimi

Kipchak Turkic language with Aramaic and Persian influences


Cordoban

en-adj

Cordoban (comparative more Cordoban, superlative most Cordoban)

more Cordoban (comparative)
most Cordoban (superlative)


Miccosukee

Their language, closely related to Hitchiti.


Cordovan

/ˈkɔːɹdəvən/


Austroasiatic

Austroasiatic (comparative more Austroasiatic, superlative most Austroasiatic)

more Austroasiatic (comparative)
most Austroasiatic (superlative)

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

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


Dothraki

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

bor+

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

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

Dothraki has four vowels.

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

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

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

constructed language
constructed language

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


Frenchperson

en-noun

Frenchperson (plural Frenchpersons or Frenchpeople)

Frenchpersons (plural)
Frenchpeople (plural)

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


Bornholmsk

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

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

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


Jinny

A diminutive of the female given name Virginia.


Emilian

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

emilià

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


Britoness

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

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


Yaroslav

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

Яросла́в Ярослав#Russian

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

Яросла́в Ярослав#Ukrainian

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


Klamath-Modoc

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


Astur-Leonese

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


Arkansan

/ˈɑː(ɹ)kənˌsɔːn/

United States of America
United States of America

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


Sealander

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

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

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

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


Hispanic America

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

Spaans-Amerika

parts of the Americas which speak Spanish


Low Prussian

Cognate to or a calque of German Niederpreußisch.

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


Plautdietsch

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

cog

Mennonite Low German
Mennonite Low German#English


New Low German

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


Paduan

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


Curonian

An extinct Baltic language spoken by the Curonians.


Redflower

The respected Redflower was left where she had fallen.

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

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


Thomasine

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


Cuman

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

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


Nicholine

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


Texican

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


Texican

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


Florinda

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

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

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


Byrne

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

A male given name derived from the surname.


Sloan

en-proper noun

Sloan (countable and uncountable, plural Sloans)


Shepherd

Shepherd (countable and uncountable, plural Shepherds)


Starr

Starr (countable and uncountable, plural Starrs)

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


Brogan

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

der

census-designated place
census-designated place

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


Ubykh

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


Bishop

en-prop

Bishop (countable and uncountable, plural Bishops)

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

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


Buck

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


Stone

en-proper noun

Stone (countable and uncountable, plural Stones)


Shelton

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


Jessamy

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

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

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

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

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


Grey Lady

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


Farley

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

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


Porter

Porter (countable and uncountable, plural Porters)

French: Porter

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

der

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

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


Tate

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

A surname transferred from the given name.

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


Heath

Heath (disambiguation)#Places
Heath (name)


Golden

en-proper noun

Golden (countable and uncountable, plural Goldens)

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


Chadwick

Chadwick (countable and uncountable, plural Chadwicks)

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

com

foreword by Chadwick Smith.

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


Raju

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


Sandhya

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

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Shankar

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

A male given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.


Lienux

(Internet slang, derogatory) The Linux operating system.


Jagannath

From Sanskrit जगन्नाथ (jagannātha). Doublet of juggernaut.


Messapian

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


Stellingwerfs

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

Drents

other Low German dialects in the Netherlands


Acharya

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

bor

A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Equatoguinean

en-adj

Equatoguinean (comparative more Equatoguinean, superlative most Equatoguinean)

more Equatoguinean (comparative)
most Equatoguinean (superlative)


Equatoguinean

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

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

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


Auhelawa

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


Chandrika

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

der

A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Oroqen

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

A Northern Tungusic language spoken by these people.


Evenk

en-noun

Evenk (plural Evenks or Evenk or Evenki)

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

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

էվենկ

member of the Tungus people of Northeastern Asia


Tobagonian

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

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


Mitch

A diminutive of the male given name Mitchell


Maddox

en-proper noun

Maddox (countable and uncountable, plural Maddoxes)


Meade

Meade (countable and uncountable, plural Meades)

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

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


Shiloh

From Biblical Hebrew שִׁילֹה \ שִׁלֹה (shiló).

bor

שִׁילֹה \ שִׁלֹה

Shiloh
Shiloh (biblical city)
Shiloh (given name)


hard sign

Calque of Russian твёрдый знак (tvjórdyj znak).

calque

твёрдый знак

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


Ozzie

A diminutive of the male given name Oswald

A diminutive of the male given name Oscar


Odell

en-proper noun

Odell (countable and uncountable, plural Odells)


Benton

Benton (countable and uncountable, plural Bentons)

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


Aaren

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


Bonner

Bonner (countable and uncountable, plural Bonners)

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


Bowen

A male given name transferred from the surname.


soft sign

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

calque

мя́гкий знак

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


Barnett

en-proper noun

Barnett (countable and uncountable, plural Barnetts)


Khazar

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

unk

unknown

cog

𐰸𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰇𐰢 𐰸𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰇𐰢#Khazar

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


Ewing

en-proper noun

Ewing (countable and uncountable, plural Ewings)

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


Ratna

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

A unisex given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.


Chang

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

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

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

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

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


Chang

A Naga language spoken in north-eastern India.


Elazar

A male given name: alternative form of Eliezer


Venkata

A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Venkateswara

Borrowed from Sanskrit वेङ्कटेश्वर (veṅkaṭeśvara).


Vijaya

A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


chemical symbol

en-noun

chemical symbol (plural chemical symbols)

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


Asu

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

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


Jayasri

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


Jersey Dutch

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


Chasu

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


Janani

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


Nechtan

in dialects without the lock–loch merger

Ultimately from the Pictish ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚅ (nehhtonn).

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

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


Nagaraju

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


Pritenic

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


Temple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A city in Carroll County and Haralson County, Georgia.

An unincorporated community in Clare County, Michigan.


Sarala

A female given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.


Suryakantam

Borrowed from Sanskrit सूर्यकान्त (sūryakānta).


Macca's

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

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

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

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

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


Macca's

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


Kipchak

The Turkic language of the Kipchak people


Aditi

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

bor

A female given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.


Nicephorus

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

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


Milwaukeean

A native or inhabitant of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.


Mignon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Jyotsna

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


Cosmas

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


Fakkanci

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Fakkanci.


Chuukese

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

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


Taliabu

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


Lake

en-proper noun

Lake (countable and uncountable, plural Lakes)

Lake Bell, Lake Chambers Speed


Vani

A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Manohar

A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Ramachandra

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


Rotwelsch

Coordinate term: Bargoens

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


Blin

The Cushitic language spoken by the Blin people.


Bamar

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

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


Mehitabel

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


Cumrun

کامران کامران#Persian

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


Ruthenian

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

заходнеру́скі

West Russian descendant of Old East Slavic - generic

стараўкраі́нскі

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

старабелару́скі

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


Vaticanian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Enders

Enders (countable and uncountable, plural Enderses)

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


Deano

A diminutive of the male given name Dean


Humphry

Humphry (countable and uncountable, plural Humphrys)

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Hallstatt

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


Samnite

(historical) A native or inhabitant of ancient Samnium.


South Caucasian

en-noun

South Caucasian (plural South Caucasians)


Ananta

From Sanskrit अनन्त (ananta, “endless”).

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


Laquisha

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


Romagnol

From Romagnol rumagnòl, from the Lombardic name for Romania.

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


Stygian

Stygians – natives of Styx

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

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


Talossan

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


excamb

en-verb

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

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

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


Lakesha

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


Joelyn

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

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

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

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Gbin

An extinct Mande language of Ivory Coast.


Swiss German Sign Language

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

Alternative form of Swiss-German Sign Language


German Swiss Sign Language

Swiss-German Sign Language
Swiss-German Sign Language


Berner

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

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

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


Jase

A diminutive of the male given name Jason


Tír na nÓg

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

bor+

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

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

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

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


Astrakhanian

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


Pileni

The Samoic language spoken there; Vaeakau-Taumako.


Vaeakau-Taumako

A Polynesian language spoken in parts of the Solomon Islands.


Takuu

A Polynesian language spoken on this atoll.


Pukapukan

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


Tuamotuan

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


Sanga

A Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Mehetabel

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

uder

מְהֵיטַבְאֵל

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

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

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

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


reptoid

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


Zonian

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


Bethlehemite

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Gord

Clipping of Gordon. Second sense is a pronunciation spelling

A diminutive of the male given name Gordon.


Kalao

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


Moluccan

en-adj

Moluccan (comparative more Moluccan, superlative most Moluccan)

more Moluccan (comparative)
most Moluccan (superlative)


Malukan

Malukan (comparative more Malukan, superlative most Malukan)

more Malukan (comparative)
most Malukan (superlative)


Malukan

A native or inhabitant of the Maluku Islands.


Bozo

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


Shuswap

The traditional language of these people.


Münchner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1929, World Traveler, volume 21, page 60:

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

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

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

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

THE PRACTICAL MÜNCHNERS AT THE OCTOBER FESTIVAL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Hitler Channel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Arik

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


Petrock

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

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


Wazza

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


Mahommed

A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad


Lexingtonian

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


Yinglish

An informal language blending elements of English and Yiddish.


Janglish

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

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


Karly

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Rugian

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


Rugian

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


Rugian

The hypothetical East Germanic language once spoken by the Rugians.


Beothuk

(linguistics) The extinct language of these people.


Hungarish

One of them reader of Hungarish.

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

(archaic) The Hungarian language; Magyar.


Jael

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

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


Sorley

From Scottish Gaelic Somhairle, from Old Norse Sumarliði.


Arden

Derived from the Brythonic ardu meaning "high"

An unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina.


Stetson

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


Sweeney

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


Sweeney

From Sweeney Todd, the name of a fictional character.

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

2018, Gary London, For the Love of Brass:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

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


Lyndon

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Lawton

en-proper noun

Lawton (countable and uncountable, plural Lawtons)

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

gloss

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

(countable) A male given name transferred from the surname


Wadsworth

en-proper noun

Wadsworth (countable and uncountable, plural Wadsworths)

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

(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname


Hadley

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

suf

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

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Linwood

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


Han character

Chinese character
Chinese character#English


Britlyn

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


Holden

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

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


Engganese

The Malayo-Polynesian language of Enggano Island.


Poll

From Polly, by rhyming with Molly, from Mary.

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

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

A diminutive of the female given name Mary.


Dimity

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

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


Novak

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


Thatcherian

en-adj

Thatcherian (comparative more Thatcherian, superlative most Thatcherian)

more Thatcherian (comparative)
most Thatcherian (superlative)

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


Kimye

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Jerusha

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

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


Channing

en-proper noun

Channing (countable and uncountable, plural Channings)


Lyle

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

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


Chagossian

British Indian Ocean Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory

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


Joss

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

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

A diminutive of the female given name Jocelyn.

A diminutive of the male given name Joseph.


intraterrestrial

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


Timmy's

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

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

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

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

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

(Canada, MTE, informal) Synonym of Tim Hortons


Damascene

en-adj

Damascene (comparative more Damascene, superlative most Damascene)

more Damascene (comparative)
most Damascene (superlative)

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


Damascene

From Ancient Greek Δαμασκηνή (Damaskēnḗ).

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


MoD

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

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

Ministry of Defence
w:Ministry of Defence

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


Saoirse

/ˈsɪə(ɹ).ʃə/

/ˈsɜː(ɹ).ʃə/


Nedward

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

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

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


Buddy

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


swamp gas

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

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


Vegan

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

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

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


Rolanda

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


Betelgeusian

(science fiction) The language spoken by Betelgeusians.


Chud

From Russian чудь (čudʹ). Doublet of tuath.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

tšuudi

a member of any of several Finnic peoples


Swabish

en-adj

Swabish (comparative more Swabish, superlative most Swabish)

more Swabish (comparative)
most Swabish (superlative)

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


Swabish

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


Swabish

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


Merida

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Noric

Noric (comparative more Noric, superlative most Noric)

more Noric (comparative)
most Noric (superlative)

Of or relating to the ancient region of Noricum.


Noric

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


Picene

An extinct language spoken by the Picenes.


Tahirih

Baháʼí Baháʼí

A female given name from Persian used by Baháʼís.


South Picene

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


Crimean Gothic

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

克里米亚哥特语

kèlǐmǐyà gētèyǔ


Araminta

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


Æthelred

/ˈæθ.əlˌɹɛd/

/ˈɛθ.əlˌɹɛd/

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

Ethelred

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


Tanoan

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


Kri

A Vietic language spoken in parts of Laos.


Salemite

Relating to, or characteristic of the Salem witch trials


Annaple

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

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


Trini

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

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

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

A diminutive of the female given name Katrina.


Nizar

A male given name from Arabic among Arabic people.


Lumbee

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

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


Lumbee

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


Elamitic

An extinct language spoken by the ancient Elamites.


EDL

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

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

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

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

English Defence League
w:English Defence League

(UK politics) Initialism of English Defence League.


Daribi

The Dadibi language of Papua New Guinea.


Wergaia

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


Carline

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

A female given name, variant of Caroline.


Bronlyn

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


Theodosius

From Latin Theodosius, from Ancient Greek.


Yeardley

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


Vepsian

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


Guale

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


Eldar

→ Russian: Эльда́р (Elʹdár)

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

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

Эльда́р

magical humanoids from Tolkien's writings


Cappadocian Greek

a language formerly spoken in Cappadocia by Cappadocian Greeks


Rusian

From Rus + -ian, by analogy with Russian.

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

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

from or related to the medieval state of Kievan Rus


Mopan

A Mayan language spoken in Belize and Guatemala.


Cherie

A female given name originating as a coinage.


LeRoi

A male given name transferred from the surname.


LeeRoy

A less common spelling variant of Leroy.


Karipúna Creole French

a French-based creole language spoken in northern Brazil


Gallaecian

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


Abidjanian

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


New Englander

/ˌnuː ˈɪŋɡləndə(ɹ)/


Achuar

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


Zargari

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

uder

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


Zargari

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

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


Gallaeci

An ancient Celtic people who inhabited Gallaecia.


Jerichoite

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


Jerichoan

Jerichoan walls; a Jerichoan fall


Minceirtoiree

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

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

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


Traveller

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

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

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


Somalilander

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


nomen loci

en-noun

nomen loci (plural nomina locorum or nomina loci)

nomina locorum (plural)
nomina loci (plural)


Kealy

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Anglish

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

coinage

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

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


Muhsin

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


Enochian

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

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


Old Hungarian

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


birth name

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

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

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


buky

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

Name of the letter b in Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.

боукꙑ

name of the letter b in the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets


Camelotian

en-adj

Camelotian (comparative more Camelotian, superlative most Camelotian)

more Camelotian (comparative)
most Camelotian (superlative)

of or relating to the Arthurian legend of Camelot.


Doctor Google

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

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

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

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


Pskovian

Pskovian (comparative more Pskovian, superlative most Pskovian)

more Pskovian (comparative)
most Pskovian (superlative)

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


New English

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

現代英語

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

Elizabethan English

Early New English (Early Modern English)


New English

en-noun

New English (plural New Englishes or New English)

New Englishes (plural)
New English (plural)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


New English

en-adj

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Tillamook

Tillamook County
Tillamook County#English

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


Umbri

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

(historical) An Italic tribe of ancient Italy.


Larina

A female given name; its shortened form is Rina.


Rina

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


Helvetii

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

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


Noam

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

bor

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

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


Lando

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

A male given name
A male given name from Italian


Monna

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


South Efate

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


Simi

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

affix

A diminutive of the unisex given name Simran

A diminutive of the female given name Simrita


Tagbanwa

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


Zazao

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


Zabana

An Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands.


Tati

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


Coeur d'Alene

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

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

Indigenous Native American
Native American

An Indigenous Native American ethnic group of northern Idaho.


Coeur d'Alene

The Salishan language spoken by these people.

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


Coeur d'Alene

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


Shimaore

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


Pammie

A diminutive of the female given name Pamela.


Tatum

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

A habitational surname from Old English.

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

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

A male given name transferred from the surname.

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

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

A female given name transferred from the surname.

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


Chakma

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

der

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


BVIslander

British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands

A native or inhabitant of the British Virgin Islands.


Buller

en-proper noun

Buller (countable and uncountable, plural Bullers)

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

der

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


Harriette

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


Amalthean

/æməlˈθiːən/

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

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


Amalthean

/æməlˈθiːən/

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Amalthea.


Paamese

The language of the island of Paama in Northern Vanuatu.


Caraquenian

A native or inhabitant of Caracas in Venezuela.


Gawain

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

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

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights


Old Lithuanian

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


Ailan

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.


Hyrum

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


Lillooet

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


Lillooet

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

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


jeem

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

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


ghayn

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

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

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


Nabataean

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

uder

Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ)


Mam

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


Kumiko

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


grumbletonian

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

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

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


quarter farthing

en-noun

quarter farthing (plural quarter farthings)

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

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

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

quart de farthing

former British coin denominated to ⅟₁₆d.


Hela

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


three halfpence

head

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

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

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


River

en-proper noun

River (countable and uncountable, plural Rivers)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Emmaline

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


Lucina

From Middle English Lucina and Lucyna, from Latin Lūcīna.


Leipon

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


Bev

A diminutive of the female given names Beverly and Beverley.


Chinookan

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


Campanian

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


Catrina

A female given name, variant of Catherine


Tangut

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

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


Rhianna

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

bor

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

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Rihanna.


Woleaian

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


Alpheus

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

uder

A male given name, of mostly historical usage.


Shughni

Southeastern Iranian
Southeastern Iranian

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


Mkhitar

Մխիթար Մխիթար#Armenian

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


maddah

آسِف آسف#Arabic

قُرْآن قرآن#Arabic

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


Cocopah

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

bor

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


Cocopah

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


Surzhyk

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

uder

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

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

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


Bushbama

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

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


Ashkharhabar

The Modern Armenian language; usually contrasted with Grabar.


yery

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


Trasyanka

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

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


Yan

A male given name, equivalent to English John.


Savita

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


Alexiares

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

com

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Jamila

From Arabic جَمِيلَة (jamīla, “beautiful”).


Corrinne

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


Eirene

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


Justitia

Translingual: Justitia

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


Core

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


Oropom

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


Kizzie

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Kizzy.


Kizzy

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

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

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


Mahmud

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


command paper

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

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


Bryony

From the bryony plant in the 19th century.


Theodosia

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

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


Paulena

A rare (non-standard) variant of Paulina.


Sidnee

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Tai Long

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

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

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


Elu

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

der

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


Pakistani English

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

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

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


Vanji

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


Ngaatjatjarra

Western Desert language
Western Desert language

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


Ngaatjatjarra

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


Old Low German

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

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


Leidener

From Leiden + -er. Compare German Leidener.

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

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

A native or inhabitant of Leiden, Netherlands.


Mantjiltjara

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


Xinjiangese

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

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

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

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

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

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

Of, from or pertaining to the region of Xinjiang.


Antisthenes

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

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


Ancus

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


Alcibiades

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

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

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

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


Appius

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

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


Arius

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

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


Jagoda

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

Јагода Јагода#Macedonian

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


Arcadius

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

Enter Arcadius and Polidora

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

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


Green Hmong

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

calque

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


Hmong Daw

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


White Hmong

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


Kensiu

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


Afanasy

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


Dagbani

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


Aetius

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

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


Athanasius

/ˌæθəˈneɪʃəs/

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

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

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

An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek


Iceni

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


Borys

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

A male given name from Ukrainian. Alternative form of Boris


Haroon

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


Veniamin

From Russian Вениами́н (Veniamín). Doublet of Benjamin.


Gavriil

From Russian Гаврии́л (Gavriíl). Doublet of Gabriel.


Vasily

From Russian Васи́лий (Vasílij). Doublet of Basil.


Hamilcar

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


Hasdrubal

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

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


Hamer

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

An unincorporated community in Williams County, Ohio.

An unincorporated community in Dillon County, South Carolina.


Hamer

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


Wynn

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


New Zealandress

en-noun

New Zealandress (plural New Zealandresses)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(rare, chiefly obsolete) A female New Zealander.


Heraclius

/ˌhɛɹəˈklaɪəs/

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

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