Zhuyin fuhao

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

bor

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

注音符号

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


Mesopotamian

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

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

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


Eurydice

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

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

2019, Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys:


Indo-Aryan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Mauritian Creole

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


Remus

A male given name from Latin, rare in English.


Angloromani

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

Angloromani

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


Argobba

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


structural formula

en-noun

structural formula (plural structural formulas or structural formulae)

structural formulas (plural)
structural formulae (plural)

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


Lenape

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

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

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


Lenape

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

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


Adah

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


Aron

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


circumduction

en-noun

circumduction (countable and uncountable, plural circumductions)


Oona

Borrowed from Irish Úna; doublet of Una.

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

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


Tritonian

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


Marylander

United States of America
United States of America

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


Papuan

en-adj

Papuan (comparative more Papuan, superlative most Papuan)

more Papuan (comparative)
most Papuan (superlative)

From, or pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea

Pertaining to the Papuan group of languages.


Papuan

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


Avalon

From Latin Avallōnia and īnsula Avallōnis, from Proto-Brythonic *aβal (“apple”), from Proto-Celtic *abūl, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

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

Avalon

earthly paradise in the western seas, in the Arthurian legend


Smithereen

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

(Canada) A native of Smithers, British Columbia.


Carlie

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


Cosmo

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


marabout

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

cog

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

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

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


Dungan

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

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

хуэйзў йүян

回族語言／回族语言 (huízú yǔyán)


SEU

Social Exclusion Unit
w:Social Exclusion Unit

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


Candi

A diminutive of the female given name Candace.


Bobbi

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

A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.


Vinnie

A diminutive of the male given name Vincent.

A diminutive of the female given name Lavinia.


Davie

A diminutive of the male given name David.


Lavinia

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

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


Bremer

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


Moe

A male given name; diminutive of Moses and Maurice.


Pathan

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

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

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

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


first minister

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

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

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

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

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


Lydian

An extinct Indo-European language in the Anatolian subgroup.


Biddie

A diminutive of the female given name Bridget


Bradly

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Biddy

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

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

A diminutive of the female given name Bridget.


Carian

/ˈkɛː.ɹɪ.ən/

/ˈkɛə.ɹɪ.ən/


Aylmer

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

(rare) A male given name from Old English.


Finnian

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


Flo

A diminutive of the female given names Florence or Flora.


Isadora

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


Fredrick

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


Gregg

A diminutive of the male given name Gregory.


Cariban

portmanteau agreement
portmanteau agreement

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


Junie

A pet form of the female given name June.


Kezia

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


Keziah

Borrowed from Hebrew קְצִיעָה (Qəṣî‘āh).

bor

Hebrew קְצִיעָה (Qəṣî‘āh)

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Kezia.


Gena

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gena.

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


Bronwyn

Bronwyn Bishop, b. 1942


Czechoslovak

en-adj

Czechoslovak (comparative more Czechoslovak, superlative most Czechoslovak)

more Czechoslovak (comparative)
most Czechoslovak (superlative)

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

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

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


Shavonne

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


Shavon

A 20th-century phonetic spelling of Irish Siobhán.


Lakeisha

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

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


Lawrie

A diminutive of the male given name Lawrence.


Letty

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

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

A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.

A diminutive of the female given name Lettice.


Dharruk

A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.


Ima

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


Amira

From Arabic أَمِيرَة (ʔamīra, “princess”).

A female given name from Arabic, female version of Amir.


Han Chinese

See Han for more historical information.

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

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

Referring to the largest ethnic group native to China.

漢族的

referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China


Han Chinese

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

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

The largest ethnic group native to China.

ဟန်လူမျိုး

the largest ethnic group native to China


confiteor

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

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

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

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


Yabim

The Malayo-Polynesian language of the Yabim people.


Hany

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


Lindie

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


Madge

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

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

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


Lindy

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

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

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


Kemi Sami

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


Ume Sami

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


Akkala Sami

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


Marcos

From Romance (Spanish Marcos and Portuguese Marcos).

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


Dianna

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


Myles

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


Marty

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

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

A diminutive of the male given names Martin or Marten.

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


Leighton

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

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Proto-Afroasiatic

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

proto-afro-asiatique

ancestor language of Afroasiatic languages


Ghotuo

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


Sarasvati

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Anson

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

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Mara

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

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

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


Marianna

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

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


Kyivan

Kyivan (comparative more Kyivan, superlative most Kyivan)

more Kyivan (comparative)
most Kyivan (superlative)

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

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


Noelene

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


Ryann

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


Noeleen

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


Randal

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


Roxane

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

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

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


Nathanael

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

der

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


Suyog

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

A male given name from Sanskrit used in Nepal.


Dhanish

A male given name from India, of Indian usage.


Roxana

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


Ananias

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


Celtiberian

Celtiberian
Celtiberian language
Celtiberians

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


Celtiberian

Celtiberian
Celtiberian language
Celtiberians
Celtic languages

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


Roxanna

A female given name from Persian, variant of Roxana.


Rosaleen

Anglicized from Irish Róisín, a diminutive of Rose.

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

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


CeeCee

A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.


Intertubes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(chiefly Internet slang, humorous) The Internet.


Middle Welsh

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


Tamra

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


Terrie

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


Tisha

A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.


Tyron

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


Vaughan

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

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Teri

A spelling variant of Terry, from Teresa.

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

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

A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.


Santali

The Austroasiatic language spoken by the Santals.


Oonagh

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


Vergil

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


Alesha

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Ericka

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


East Slav

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


East Slavic

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


Sherlock

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

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


Aditya

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


Barack

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

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

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


Sienese

en-adj

Sienese (comparative more Sienese, superlative most Sienese)

more Sienese (comparative)
most Sienese (superlative)

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


Vesuvian

One who inhabits the area around Mount Vesuvius.


Barbra

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


Eveleen

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


Arron

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


Jacquelyn

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

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

A female given name from French, one of the spelling variants of Jacqueline.


Cloe

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


Constantin

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


Ramona

Ramona (disambiguation)#Places
Ramona (name)


Trina

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


kje

Cyrillic script
Appendix:Cyrillic script#English

The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ќ / ќ.


Gutnish

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

The native language of the island of Gotland in present day Sweden, used both as a spoken and written language until late medieval times. Modern Gutnish is increasingly marginalised by Standard Swedish.


Juana

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


Denverite

The native Denverite decided to go to University in Boulder.

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

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


Thad

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

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

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


Thaddeus

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


Linus

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

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

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

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


Nicodemus

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

(rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Thaddaeus

en-proper noun

Thaddaeus (countable and uncountable, plural Thaddaeuses)

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

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


Theophilus

/θiːˈɒfɪləs/

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

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

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

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

1973, Thornton Wilder, Theophilus North, page 118:

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


Croato-Serbian

/kɹəʊˌeɪtəʊˈsɜː(ɹ)biən/


Croato-Serbian

/kɹəʊˌeɪtəʊˈsɜː(ɹ)biən/


Okie

Will Rogers is considered a famous Okie.

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

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

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

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

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


Judie

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


Arty

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

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


Jessamine

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

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

A female given name from English, variant of Jasmine.


Marija

Марија Марија#Macedonian

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


Adnan

From Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).


Kalami

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


Dardic

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


Gottfried

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

Gottfried Leibniz, a mathematician


Sampson

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Prisca

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


Damaris

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

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

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

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


Drusilla

Latin Drusilla, feminine diminutive form of the cognomen Drusus.

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

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


Dena'ina

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

bor

The Northern Athabascan language spoken by this tribe.


Simson

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

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


Vasil

Васі́ль Васіль#Belarusian

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

Васил Васил#Bulgarian

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


Justus

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

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

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


Luoravetlan

Chukchi language of Chukotko-Kamchatkan family


Luorawetlan

The Chukchi language, of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family.


Stephany

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


Stefany

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


Chukotko-Kamchatkan

A language family of northeastern Siberia.


Eskimo-Aleut

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


Kore

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

lbor

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Stefani

en-proper noun

Stefani (countable and uncountable, plural Stefanis)


Eurasiatic

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


Jewell

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

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

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

An unincorporated community in Marin County, California.

An unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon.


Flavia

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

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


BNC

British National Corpus
w:British National Corpus

(linguistics) Initialism of British National Corpus.


Jonty

A diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.


Nikolina

Николина Николина#Macedonian

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


Balto-Slavic

Of or pertaining to the Balto-Slavic language, the people who spoke it or their culture.

բալթիկ-սլավոնական

of or pertaining o the Balto-Slavic language, people or culture


Balto-Slavic

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


Vesna

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

A female given name of Eastern European usage


Salomon

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


Marin

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

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

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

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


Marin

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


Proto-Turkic

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

proto-turc

hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language


Old Turkic

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


Darin

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


Darrin

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

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


Georgiana

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

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

A female given name from Ancient Greek derived from George.


Freeman

Freeman (countable and uncountable, plural Freemans)

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


Alutor

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

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


Austrian German

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


Shaye

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


Shea

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Shanae

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


Darien

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

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

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


Romola

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

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

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

(rare) A female given name from Italian.


Elvira

en-proper noun

Elvira (countable and uncountable, plural Elviras)

A medieval Spanish royal name, of probably Gothic origin, and debated meaning. It became famous outside Spain after its appearance in Mozart's Don Giovanni (1787).

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


Andrei

Андре́й Андрей#Russian

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


Douglass

A male given name transferred from the surname.


contactee

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

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

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

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

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


Josias

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

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


space alien

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

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

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


Sranan Tongo

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

A creole language spoken as a first language by approximately 126,000 people in Suriname, the mother tongue of the Creoles.


Uralic

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

uralià

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


surrogatum

1800s. Latin, neuter singular of surrogatus

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


Tlahuica

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


Alessia

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


Sumy

A diminutive of the female given name Sumaya


Jedidiah

/ˌd͡ʒɛdɪˈdaɪə/

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


Jaydon

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


Evette

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


Wendell

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

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


Charmian

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

Help me away, dear Charmian, I shall fall:

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

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

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


Crispus

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

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

A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use.


Mateo

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

der

מַתִּתְיָהוּ

Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū)


Charlottetonian

A native or inhabitant of Charlottetown, Canada.


Maritimer

A native or inhabitant of the Maritime provinces.


Mississaugan

A native or inhabitant of Mississauga, Canada.


Frederictonian

A native or inhabitant of Fredericton, Canada.


Yellowknifer

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories

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


Aucklander

A native or resident of Auckland, New Zealand.


Nevadan

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


Saskatonian

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


Indianan

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

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

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


Hamiltonian

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

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

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

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

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


Syntyche

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

prefix

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

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

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


Rosanne

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


Norseman

(historical) A medieval Scandinavian or Viking.


Zelma

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Selma.


Lora

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


Isiah

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Isaiah.


Roseanne

A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosanne.


Nubian

en-adj

Nubian (comparative more Nubian, superlative most Nubian)

more Nubian (comparative)
most Nubian (superlative)

Pertaining to Nubia, its people or its language.

нубі́йскі

pertaining to Nubia, its people or its language


Hieronymus

en-proper noun

Hieronymus (countable and uncountable, plural Hieronymuses)

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

der

A male given name from Ancient Greek of historical use.


Leonora

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


Marcellus

Borrowed from Latin Marcellus. Doublet of Marcel.


Burgundian

/bɜːˈɡʌndɪən/

/bɜːɹˈɡʌndɪən/

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

The extinct East Germanic language of the Burgundians.


Dunstan

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

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

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


Sibylla

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

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

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


Vasthy

A female given name from Persian, variant of Vashti.


Kilian

A male given name from Irish, variant of Killian


Mohamed

A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad


Surya

From Sanskrit सूर्य (sū́rya, “the sun or its deity”). Doublet of sun.

bor

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Lambda

Lambda, on the other hand, was practically giddy when she finished crawling through the lander.

2022, James Breakwell, The Chosen Twelve:


Amabel

Medieval English name apparently based on Latin amabilis (“lovable”).

All the same, they didn't hold it against her, and if, as sometimes happened behind closed doors, they referred to her origin, they called her shamefacedly but rather proudly, their love-child. Hence the name, Amabel, which seemed to unite love with beauty.

1970, L.P.Hartley, My Sister's Keeper, page 4:


Speccy

It's a while since I wrote anything for the Speccy, so I wouldn't know.

2007, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn's Britain, page 208:

(informal) The Spectator, a British current-affairs magazine.


space invader

Made popular by the early video game Space Invaders (1978).

Alternative form: space-invader

When I forget to follow the rules with my hands, feet, and mouth, I become a Space Invader! A Space Invader makes it hard for others to work, think and play in their personal space.

2023 April 21 (last accessed), Kayla Weskamp, Space Invaders: A Social Skills Game (K – 5):

When someone enters my bubble, I may feel uncomfortable. They are my space invaders.

2023 April 21 (last accessed), Diana Sylvander, Don't Be A Space Invader!- Social Story:

A person who intrudes on others' personal space, making them emotionally or physically uncomfortable.


Grizel

A female given name from the Germanic languages; a medieval variant of Griselda, rare today.


Grissel

For patience she will prove a second Grissel.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:


Jimi

LEGAL COACH: Jimi Hendrix, Mr. President - the first name is spelled Jimi, not Jimmy, as you've written it here.
TRICKY: Well, let's correct it, then, because that is just the sort of error, inadvertently made, that tends to be totally misconstrued by the press. Now I never claimed to know how to spell the names of every colored person in this country, but I will tell you this much: where someone's name is concerned, colored or not, he has the constitutional right to have it spelled correctly

1971, Philip Roth, Our Gang (starring Tricky and his Friends), →ISBN, page 79:

A rare spelling variant of Jimmy, diminutive of the male given name James.


Ingush

From Russian Ингуши (Inguši), from Ангушт (Angušt), a former important settlement of the people.

A member of a Nakh people of the northeastern Caucasus, now mostly Sunni Muslim and resident in the Russian republic of Ingushetia.

(inexact) Synonym of Ingushetian: a resident of Ingushetia.


Ingush

The language of the Ingush, a member of the Nakh family.


Ingush

en-adj

Ingush (comparative more Ingush, superlative most Ingush)

more Ingush (comparative)
most Ingush (superlative)

(inexact) Synonym of Ingushetian: of or related to Ingushetia, a Russian republic in the northeastern Caucasus.


Kalmyk

Transliteration of Russian калмы́к m anim sg (kalmýk, noun), itself a Turkic exonym ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kiāl-mak (“to stay behind”, literally “those who stayed behind”).

der

A Mongolic language, spoken in and around Kalmykia in Russia.


Dagestani

/ˌdæɡɪˈstɑːni/


Izhorian

Ultimately from Ingrian ižorat (“Izhorians”).


East African

An East African person; one who comes from or lives in East Africa.


East German

An East German person; one who comes from or lives in East Germany.


Tuvan

A Turkic language spoken around the area of Tuva.


Buryat

We met the President of the Republic, Salomon M. Ivanov, who is a native Buryat.

1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:

布里亞特人

Bùlǐyɑ̀tèrén


Buryat

A Mongolic language spoken around Buryatia.


Mentor

en-proper noun

Mentor (countable and uncountable, plural Mentors)

From Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”).

(countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek


Biloxi

Biloxi language
Biloxi people
Biloxi, Mississippi

A city in and one of the two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.


belter

(science fiction) A person who mines asteroids for minerals or lives in the vicinity of an asteroid belt.


Paymon

From Classical Persian پیمان (paymān, literally “pact, promise, commitment”), possibly transmitted via Tajik Паймон (Paymon) based on transliteration.

bor

پیمان پیمان#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name پیمان (peymân).


neotribalism

The sociological concept that humans have evolved to live in a tribal society and thus will naturally form social networks constituting new "tribes".


menology

Partially from meno- (“month-”) + -ology (“study, account”) and partially from anglicization of Medieval Latin mēnologium and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), q.v. Doublet of menologion, menologium, and menologe.

doublet

In the Mart. of Donegal, this is the day of St. Comgall (Comhgall), placed in the Menology on the 27th June, as having no day.

1892, Richard Stanton, A Menology of England and Wales..., p. 645

The menology of the tenth century has the formula ...

1935, Stephen Langdon, Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars, page 86:

The duration of the rites of mourning over nine days is... supported by references in a Standard Babylonian menology...

2003, Andrew R. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic..., p. 53

The Menology of St Symeon mostly repeats earlier accounts but includes some small additions as well.

(often capitalized) Synonym of menologium, a monthly record, particularly in Assyriology and certain Christian contexts.


Dario

Borrowed from Italian Dario and Spanish Darío.


Vincenzo

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Vincent.


Aurelian

From Latin Aurelianus, derivative of the gens name Aurelius (“golden”).

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


Aurelius

Would the name Marcus Aurelius have meant anything to him? In all probability, he would have thought it a fancy name for a black slave.

1992, Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief, Arrow Books, →ISBN, page 169:

A male given name from Latin; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.


Persis

Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís, “a Persian woman”).

uder

A female given name from Ancient Greek, in occasional use since the 16th century.


Tiziano

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Titian.


Brayon

en-adj

Brayon (comparative more Brayon, superlative most Brayon)

more Brayon (comparative)
most Brayon (superlative)

From French brayer (“to break flax for spinning”).

uder

Of or relating to the Brayons, their language, or their mixed French–English culture.


Syeda

Borrowed from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida).
* (female given name): From Urdu سیدہ, from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida)

A female given name from Urdu; feminine of Syed


Olly

A diminutive of the female given name Olivia.

A diminutive of the male given name Oliver.


Linette

In modern use a spelling variant of Lynette, though it is also identical with a rare French name, diminutive of Line, from Caroline, Pauline and other female names ending in -line.

When Damian addressed the wild flower, perhaps you are not aware that Linné is the name of a beautiful weed, originally selected by a great botanist to bear his appellation, and that it is also the endearing abbreviation for Linette. - - - The roses still continued to bloom on the grave, whose headstone recorded the name of "Linette".

1850 Linne, the Woodland Flower, from Gazette of the Union, The Golden Rule, Vol. 12, J. D. Stewart & W. B. Smith, page 270


Taos

From Spanish Taos (“Taos”), from Taos tə̂o (“village”), as in tə̂otho (“in the village”) or tə̂obo (“to the village”).

A town, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico, south of Taos Pueblo.


Harun

From Arabic هَارُون (hārūn). Doublet of Aaron.

An Arabic male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Aaron


Osmund

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


Humbert

From Old English Hunbeorht, from Proto-Germanic *hūnaz (“offspring, (bear) cub”) + *berhtaz (“bright”). Name of a Flemish saint, and of Italian royalty.

inh

"Humbert Humbert", their author, had died in legal captivity, - - -
And I have toyed with many pseudonyms for myself before I hit a particularly apt one. There are in my notes "Otto Otto" and "Mesmer Mesmer" and "Lambert Lambert", but for some reason I think my choice expresses the nastiness best.

1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Foreword; - - - Chapter 36:

A male given name from the Germanic languages, rare in English.


Osmond

Old Norse Ásmundr, from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”). Later merged with a Norman French Osmont, from the same Old Norse root.


Pankaj

Borrowed from Sanskrit पङ्कज (paṅkaja, “lotus”, literally “mud-born”), from पङ्क (paṅka, “mud”) + ज (ja, “born”).

bor+

A male given name from Sanskrit common in India.


Anselm

From Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god”) + Old High German helm (“helmet”). Name of an Archbishop of Canterbury.

A male given name from the Germanic languages; quite rare in English.


adminicle

From Latin adminiculum (“support pole”).


Dmitry

From Russian Дми́трий (Dmítrij), from Byzantine Greek Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios), from Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr, “Demeter”). Doublet of Demetrius and Dimitris.

Дми́трий Дмитрий#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij).


Wenonah

In the moonlight and the starlight,
Fair Nokomis bore a daughter.
And she called her name Wenonah,
As the first-born of her daughters.

1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha:

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


Allegra

Borrowed from Italian allegra (“cheerful”), inspired by the musical term allegro.

From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair.

1860, Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, The Children's Hour:


Winona

From Dakota winúŋna (“firstborn daughter”). While not originally used as a personal name by the Dakota, it has been adopted as such by English speakers.
John Koontz suggested that the name was a compound of wi- (“female”) + no (“first”) + -na (a diminutive suffix) and thus a reflex of Proto-Siouan *rǫ/*nǫ (“one”). That root is otherwise unattested in the Sioux languages, which use reflexes of *wį(y)ą (“one”) instead, and a more prosaic analysis identifies the first elements of the name with winyan (“woman”).

I've met the full Clairol spectrum of Winonas, and I have come to recognize them the way you might watch for pretty little coral snakes in Florida. Isn't that sweet? you think—until it bites you and you die. Just like those pretty little snakes, Winona talks in a sort of a soft and wispy hiss and tells you how confused she is […]

2001, Julia Cameron, God Is No Laughing Matter:

A female given name from Dakota, used mainly in the United States.


Jahan

جهان جهان#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian unisex given name جهان (jahân).


Carrol

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Carol.


half-noble

An ancient unit of currency of England, equivalent to half a noble.


Central Atlas Tamazight

A Berber language spoken by some three million people in central Morocco.


Saba

From Latin Saba, from Ancient Greek Σάβα (Sába), from Hebrew שְׁבָא (Šəḇā).

der

Hebrew שְׁבָא (Šəḇā)

Sheba: an ancient civilization in South Arabia (now Yemen), and crossing the Red Sea into the Horn of Africa.


Interglossa

From Latin inter- + Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “language”).

constructed language
constructed language

An constructed language devised by Lancelot Hogben (1895-1975).


Debora

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


Dutton World Speedwords

Invented by Reginald J. G. Dutton (1886-1970) in 1922.

A constructed language used as both an international auxiliary language and a shorthand system.


Glosa

Based on Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue, mother language”).

A constructed language intended to be used by the global scientific community.


Láadan

From Láadan Láadan, created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982.

A constructed language designed as an experiment in feminist linguistics.


Kotava

a constructed language invented by Staren Fetcey, who began the project in 1975.


Kiowa

A language of the Kiowa-Tanoan language family.

A place in the United States:
A minor city in Barber County, Kansas.

An unincorporated community in Glacier County, Montana.

A ghost town in Thayer County, Nebraska.

Pittsburg County
Pittsburg County#English

A place in the United States:
A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.


Romanova

A constructed language based on Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.


Blissymbols

In the 1970s, disabled people who couldn't write or speak—such as those with cerebral palsy—used Blissymbols to communicate by point to the drawings on a large board. It was time-consuming and required a person who knew Blissymbols to help translate.

2020, Carla Sinclair, Girl Genius, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:

A constructed language using ideographs invented by Charles K. Bliss after the Second World War.


speos

A tomb or temple carved from the solid rock


ufological

en-adj

ufological (comparative more ufological, superlative most ufological)

more ufological (comparative)
most ufological (superlative)


Fabius

Latin Fabius, name of a Patrician Roman gens, from faba (“bean”).

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


Leander

From Ancient Greek Λέανδρος (Léandros), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).

A male given name from Ancient Greek, also of a Spanish sixth century saint.


Cathleen

A female given name from Irish, a less common spelling of Kathleen.


Irvine

en-prop

Irvine (countable and uncountable, plural Irvines)

Probably from Celtic words cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“green, fresh”) + afon (“water”).

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Fareed

فَرِيد فريد#Arabic

A transliteration of the Arabic male given name فَرِيد (farīd).


Ehsan

From Persian احسان (ehsân, literally “favor, kindness, beneficence”), from Arabic إِحْسَان (ʔiḥsān).

der

Arabic إِحْسَان (ʔiḥsān)

احسان احسان#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name احسان (ehsân).


Octavia

From Latin Octāvia, feminine form of the gens name Octāvius, from octavus (“the eighth”).

If beauty, wisdom, modesty can settle
The heart of Antony, Octavia is
A blessed lottery to him.

A female given name from Latin, in quiet use since the Middle Ages.


Octavius

From Latin Octāvius, name of a Roman gens.

A male given name from Latin, in occasional use.


Church Slavonic

A liturgical language of various Slavic church traditions, with dialectal basis of Old Church Slavonic mixed with vernacular lexical and phonological developments.


Mei

From Mandarin 美 (měi, “beautiful”), a common Chinese given name among women.


goober-grabbler

From goober (“peanut”) + grabbler (“grabber, one who searches on hands and knees”).

compound

A Georgian is popularly known in the South as a ‘Gouber-grabbler’.

1869, Overland Monthly, number 3, page 129:


goober grabbler

en-noun

goober grabbler (plural goober grabblers)

(Southern US, dated slang) Alternative form of goober-grabbler.


Nyanja

He laughed. Her Nyanja wasnʼt bad. ‘You were born here?’

2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 405:


Luba-Katanga

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mostly in the south-east.


Southern Ndebele

An African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the Ndebele or Matabele people of South Africa.


Northern Ndebele

An African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the Ndebele or Matabele people of Zimbabwe.


Hiri Motu

an official language of Papua New Guinea. It is a pidgin based primarily on Motu.


Ganda

Now Kirabo understood why the Ganda considered the selling of family land an abomination. But then again, after Amin’s regime, which had left the Ganda desperately impoverished, things were changing.

2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 394:

A member of the ethnic group of Uganda who speak the Luganda language.


Swazi

From Zulu iSwazi, after the name of an early chief, Mswati. The alternative forms come from Swazi liSwati.

A Bantu language primarily spoken in Swaziland/Eswatini and the South African regions adjacent to it.


Beijinger

/beɪˈdʒɪŋə(ɹ)/

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China#English

A native or inhabitant of Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China.


Cathi

A 20th century spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.


Cathie

A spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.


Catheryn

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Catherine.


Cathryn

A female given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Catherine.


Amey

Variant spelling of Amy, from Old French or Latin.

By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.

1776 Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756

A female given name from Latin, an old spelling variant of Amy, no longer current.


Amory

Medieval personal name from Proto-Germanic *amal- (“vigor, bravery”) + *rīks (“ruler”). For the first element, compare *ammōną (“to bother, irritate”).

der

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter I, in This Side of Paradise:

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


Usonian

Sense 1, Usona + -ian, or Usonia + -an.
: Senses 2–4, Usonia + -an.

This much was already evident in the opinions expressed by Usonian politicians and ideologues following the end of the War of 1898.

It is hoped that every reader will have a sufficient share of the general sense of humor to enjoy, and not to take offense at, such bits of Usonian and Canadian lingo.

1956, W. L. McAtee, “Facetious Monickers for American Birds”, in American Speech, volume 31, number 3, page 180:

Right below Juan Ponce is the Palace of the Fortaleza de Santa Catalina drawn in such a way so as to highlight the Puerto Rican and the Usonian flags waving above.

2003, Toshiko Mori, Materials, Fabrication + Performance: The Journal of the School of Architecture and Planning, page 121:

Of or relating to the United States of America.


Johnny Canuck

1869, Johnny + Canuck, a character in political cartoons.

(chiefly World War I, World War II) A Canadian soldier.


Canadian French

The Design on Lequesne, supposing all to have been honest that produced it, could have taken it's Rise from nothing but want of Knowledge in common Geography: No Eye that follows the Course in the Map, which is always taken by the Canadian French from Quebec to Fort Lequesne, but must be necessarily convinced that the taking Niagara would have answered all the Purposes of possessing that and Lequesne.

1755, John Shebbeare, A Letter to the People of England: On the Present Situation and Conduct of National Affairs, volume 1, page 42:


Canadian French

en-adj

Canadian French (comparative more Canadian French, superlative most Canadian French)

more Canadian French (comparative)
most Canadian French (superlative)


Canadian French

The French language as spoken by Francophones in Canada.


Kathi

A 20th-century variant of Kathy, diminutive of the female given name Katherine and related names.


Kathie

A spelling variant of the female name Kathy.


Emory

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


Peregrine

Saint's name from Latin Peregrinus, from peregrinus (“foreigner”).

Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. / "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - - / Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!" / "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle.

1985, Ruth Rendell, The New Girlfriend: The Fen Hall, pages 124, 127:

(rather rare) A male given name from Latin; and of mostly British usage.


Emery

From medieval Germanic personal names, either a variant of Amory, from Amalric, Proto-Germanic *amal (“vigor, bravery”) (compare *ammōną) + Old High German rīhhi (“ruler”), or of Henry, from Old High German Heimrich, from heim (“home”) + rīhhi (“ruler”).

A surname transferred from the given name.

A female given name transferred from the surname, of 2000s usage, also associated with the mineral emery.


French-Canadian

French-Canadian (comparative more French-Canadian, superlative most French-Canadian)

more French-Canadian (comparative)
most French-Canadian (superlative)

Of or relating to Francophone Canadians or French Canada.

Of or relating to Canadians of French ancestry or descent.


autonym

(taxonomy) An infraspecific name in which the specific epithet is repeated.

Deutsche is the autonym of the people known in English as Germans.

(linguistics, anthropology) A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.

As a general principle, the heading of the main entry of the book should be in the form in which the book itself is published; that is, if it is published under an autonym let the autonym be given, if under a pseudonym, then let the pseudonym be given, and if the book be anonymous, then let the fact be stated.

1900, Mr. Barnwell, “Cataloging Roundtable”, in Library Journal, page 157:

The true name of a person or other entity, especially an author.

A work published under the author's true name.


French Canadian

(US) The French language as spoken in Canada, Canadian French.


USO

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT THE TROOPS IF I CAN’T REGALE THEM WITH TALES OF WHOREPUNCHING AND SKULLFUCKING? THREE WORDS: INDIETITS USO SHOW

2007, Jeph Jacques, Indietits: SUPPORT OUR TROOPS:


Montanan

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


cee

I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:

The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.


Newfoundland English

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador

The form of English spoken in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.


yat

A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use

jać

an obsolete letter of the Cyrillic alphabet "Ѣ/ѣ"


Swabian

An Upper German dialects of High German chiefly spoken in the region of Swabia.


Trish

"Trix" was a derivation of Trish, our mother's girlhood name, or cognomen, as she called it; Trish was itself a derivation of Patricia. Trix disliked her original name because she thought it prissy and old-fashioned, but she didn't much like "Trix" either.

1991, Joyce Carol Oates, Heat And Other Stories, Dutton, →ISBN:

A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.


Louisianian

From, or pertaining to, the state of Louisiana in the United States of America.


Main Street

The generic street name (and often the official name) of the primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in the United States, Canada, Ireland, some parts of Scotland and also in some countries in central Europe.


Kirstie

A diminutive of the female given name Kristine, variant of Kirsty, a 20th-century variant of Kirsty, a form of Christina.


Kammryn

(rare) A female given name transferred from the surname, of uncommon usage, variant of Kamryn.


Joelle

A female given name from French Joëlle [in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Joel.


Ogden

Places in England, from Old English āc (“oak”) + denu (“valley”).

Even from an aesthetic point of view the sight of the bulging child offended him. Ogden Ford was round and blobby and looked overfed.

1917, P.G.Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Piccadilly Jim:

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


Palaic

From Pala (“a region in Anatolia northwest of Hattusa”) + -ic.

suffix

An extinct Indo-European language belonging to Anatolian branch, attested in cuneiform tablets in Bronze Age Hattusa.


Geffrey

That Geffrey was thy elder brother born,
And this his son; England was Geffrey's right,
And this is Geffrey's.

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a medieval spelling of Geoffrey, rarely used today.


Guendolen

"I am quite aware," she added, "that we shall be in a certain sense gambling with a conscipious, individualizing name, for she may grow up commonplace-looking or a fright; but we must take some chances in life, mustn't we, Fred?"
"Either Rosamond, Eleanor, or Guendolen is appropriate for a beauty," said I, with non-committal subserviency,

1892, Robert Grant, The Reflections of a Married Man, Scribner, page 101:

A female given name from Welsh, variant of Gwendolen.


Vincentian

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

A citizen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines


Montezuma

From Classical Nahuatl Motēuczōma (literally “he frowns like a lord”).

der

A Nahuatl male given name, the name of two Aztec emperors.


Lorie

A less common spelling of Laurie, diminutive of the female given name Laura.


Connecticuter

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


Delawarean

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


Wyomingite

This effort has taken the form of an Internet-based recruitment program called Wyoming Grown. Young Wyomingites who have left the state sign up on the program’s website, and quickly receive a call from a recruiter who helps link them to work here.

2015 July 15, Julie Turkewitz, “Wyoming, Long on Pride but Short on People, Hopes to Lure Some Back”, in The New York Times:

[Liz Cheney] introduced herself as a “fourth-generation Wyomingite.”

2022 August 16, Trip Gabriel, “Lawyer Who Defeated Cheney Spent Career Fighting Environmental Rules”, in The New York Times:

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


Carolinian

/ˌkæɹəˈlɪniən/

Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands

An Austronesian language, one of the official languages of the Northern Mariana Islands.


Sammarinese

Someone from San Marino or of Sammarinese descent


Saint Lucian

Someone from Saint Lucia or of Saint Lucian descent


Clarice

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


Krissy

A diminutive of the female given names Kristine/Christine or Kristina/Christina.


three-line whip

en-noun

three-line whip (plural three-line whips)

From the triple underlining of very important votes on “the whip” — a document detailing upcoming business distributed weekly to British MPs by party managers.

Since the metaphysical status of egg-casing is not one on which the church has yet pronounced, opposition appears based on "yuck" and nothing else. But yuck has become diktat, with Catholic MPs up to cabinet level being given a three-line whip by their bishops.

2008 April 12, Simon Jenkins, Richard Harries, “Atheist versus Bishop”, in The Guardian:

Deputy Chief Whip Craig Whittaker told them it will be a “100% hard” three-line whip, saying: “This is not a motion on fracking. This is a confidence motion in the Government.”

2022 October 19, Ashley Cowburn, quoting Craig Whittaker, “Liz Truss declares fracking vote tonight a ‘confidence motion’ in her government”, in Mirror:

(UK politics) A directive to MPs from party leaders to vote in a particular way in parliament, despite what the MP might believe or what his or her constituents might like.


Menominee

Menominee (plural Menominees or Menominee)

Borrowed from Ojibwe manoominii (literally “wild-rice people”); from Ojibwe manoomin.

bor

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

A member of a nation of Native Americans indigenous to what is now Wisconsin.


Menominee

Jo Daviess County
Jo Daviess County#English

A village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States.

Menominee County
Menominee County#English

A city, the county seat of Menominee County, Michigan, United States.

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

A town in Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States, which is coextensive with and consolidated with the county.


Atayal

Their Austronesian language, which uses the Latin alphabet.


Bryon

A male given name from Irish, a nonstandard spelling of Brian.


Georgianna

Alberta is more like a man's name than any other name that comes from a men's, more than Georgianna which is just like a magnolia blossom or Henrietta which most people change to Etta or Geraldine which nobody ever thinks of coming from a man's Irish name like Gerald.

1936, George Weller, Clutch and Differential, Ayer, published 1970, →ISBN, page 196:

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a spelling variant of Georgiana, confused with George + Anna.


Bryant

en-proper noun

Bryant (countable and uncountable, plural Bryants)

A male given name transferred from the surname.


spad

SPAD Special Advisor

1997 November 5, Reddy Hannah with Wimbush, Angela and Linesberry, Debbie, “Abbreviations and Acronyms”, in Dr. Russell G. Swenson, editor, Defense and Intelligence Abbreviations and Acronyms, Washington, DC: Joint Military Intelligence College, archived from the original on 2017-09-18, page 192:

A successful stint as a spad can be a crucial political apprenticeship - as many of the current crop of professional politicians including the Miliband brothers, David Cameron and George Osborne can testify - so long as they stay in the dark.

2009, Ben Wright, Hidden world of the political advisers, BBC:

The hit BBC sitcom satirising the inner workings of Whitehall and the so-called spads contains "more than a grain of truth", the head of the cross-party public administration select committee has warned.

2012, Avoid The Thick of It-style spad appointments, ministers told, The Guardian

(UK politics, informal) A government adviser, often in a political or media role.


Jugg

(obsolete) A female given name, nickname for Joan.


Miki

A unisex given name
diminutive of Michael
Alternative form of Mickey


Miki

Borrowed from Japanese 三木 (Miki), 三鬼 (Miki) or みき (Miki).


Ararat

From Latin Ararat, from Ancient Greek Ἀραράτ (Ararát), from Biblical Hebrew אֲרָרָט (ʾărārāṭ), in Genesis 8:4. Corresponds to Akkadian 𒆳𒌵 (Urarṭu, “Urartu”), the name of a land which in Classical Antiquity became known as 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴 (a-r-mi-i-n /Armina/) (in Behistun inscription, 6th century BC), Ἀρμενία (Armenía) (in Hecataeus of Miletus, ca. 476 BC).
The place names in modern Armenia and the given name are from Armenian Արարատ (Ararat).

Արարատ Արարատ#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Արարատ (Ararat).


Jerald

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


ǂHõã

ǂHõã (isolate, genetically unassigned)

2001, Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages, Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal, →ISBN, page 83:

Unclassified Isolates
28 ǂHõã

2007, Matthias Brenzinger, Language Diversity Endangered, page 189:

Alternative form of ǂHoan (Khoisan language of Botswana).


Beki

A modern spelling variant of Becky, which is in itself, a shortened form of Rebecca, a female given name.


Jimmer

/ˈd͡ʒɪmə(ɹ)/

You see, Da Jimmer has been to outer space and he’s different. Very different.

(North Wisconsin, Yooper) Alternative form of James, usually a diminutive, but also occasionally a given name.


Earle

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

(chiefly US) A male given name, variant of Earl.


Mabelle

Mabelle his wife - what an affected way of spelling Mabel. The next moment it seemed pretty and aristocratic, such was the Trimingham spell.

1953, L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, Hamish Hamilton, published 1974, page 168:

A female given name from Latin, variant of Mabel.


Kelley

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Earline

He reached into the wallet he kept chained to his bell loop and pulled out two hundred 1-dollar bills. He said, "My given name's Earl. Earl for a boy, Earline for a girl." I don't know why I said okay, but I did.

2001, George Singleton, These People Are Us: Short Stories, River CityPress, →ISBN, page 27:


Earlene

Outside of that, and having a name like Earlene, what’s her problem?

1991, Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, Dell, published 1992, →ISBN, page 232:

(US) A female given name from English derived from Earl.


entering tone

(Chinese phonetics) A short, sharp tone found with syllables that end in plosives (usually /-p -t -k -ʔ/).


Germanize

en-verb

Germanize (third-person singular simple present Germanizes, present participle Germanizing, simple past and past participle Germanized)

Germanizes (present singular third-person)
Germanizing (participle present)
Germanized (participle past)
Germanized (past)

to Germanize a province, a language, or a society

Why should Pennsylvania […] become a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?

1751, Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.:

(transitive) To give a German character to (something).

(intransitive) To adopt German customs or culture.


Juley

Seated in a row close to one another were three ladies — Aunts Ann, Hester (the two Forsyte maids), and Juley (short for Julia), who not in first youth had so far forgotten herself as to marry Septimus Small, a man of poor constitution.

1906 John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property: Chapter 1

A diminutive of the female given name Julia.


Valerius

"Here you are!" said George, pointing with his cigar. "Cato - Publius Valerius by Virgil out of Lydia. That's what you want. Publius Valerius is Christian enough."
Dartie, on arriving home, had informed Winifred. She had been charmed. It was so 'chic'. And Publius Valerius became the baby's name, though it afterwards transpired that they had got hold of the inferior Cato. In 1890, however, when little Publius was nearly ten, the word 'chic' went out of fashion, and sobriety came in; Winifred began to have doubts. They were confirmed by little Publius himself, who returned from his first term at school complaining that life was a burden to him - they called him Pubby. Winifred - a woman of real decision - promptly changed his school and his name to Val, the Publius being dropped even as an initial.

1920 John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga: In Chancery:I: Chapter 2

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


Murad

From Ottoman Turkish مراد (murad), from Arabic مُرَاد (murād).

A male given name, of Turkish origin, borne by various Ottoman dignitaries


Melony

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


Benjie

A diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.


Grauniad

Deliberate misspelling of Guardian, coined by the UK satirical magazine Private Eye, implying that the Guardian newspaper was prone to typographical errors.

Good old Grauniad.

1984 [1981], Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay, “The Right to Know”, in The Complete Yes Minister, →ISBN, page 135:

Stop along the road for papers; scan headlines, make sure that no late-breaking story displaced the Vanguard piece and that it's intact (ninety-five percent – a satisfyingly high score), check out Doonesbury in the Grauniad, then away.

Katherine Viner wants to appoints a "1 per cent correspondent" to hound the filthy rich. As befits a possible Grauniad editrix, the NUJ misspelt her name.

2015 February 24, Patrick Kidd, “Guardian Angels Declare”, in The Times, page 11:

His appointment marked the start of a daily corrections and clarifications column, a first for a UK newspaper, which has mined a rich seam of typos and other slips for which “the Grauniad” is fondly known.

2021 May 12, Elisabeth Ribbans, “Typo negative: the best and worst of Grauniad mistakes over 200 years”, in The Guardian:

(UK, newspapers, humorous) The Guardian, a British daily national newspaper.


Rickie

A diminutive of the male given name Richard.


star visitor

(informal) An extraterrestrial person who visits from a different star system.


Fulton

From Foulden, a village in Norfolk, from Old English fuġol (“bird”) + tūn (“dwelling”).

A male given name transferred from the surname.


early day motion

en-noun

early day motion (plural early day motions)

(UK politics) A formal motion submitted for debate in the House of Commons.


Jacobite

Syriac Orthodox Church
Syriac Orthodox Church

(Christianity, dated) A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. [from 15th c.]


Jeannie

A female given name A diminutive form of Jean.


sukun

Near-synonyms: virama, halant

A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.

سُكُون

Diacritic used to mark the absence of a vowel


Buginese

A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in parts of Sulawesi, Indonesia


Caty

A less common spelling of Katie, diminutive of the female given name Catherine and related names.


shadda

A diacritic (◌ّ) used in the Arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant.


Louie

A diminutive of the male given name Louis.

A diminutive of the female given names Louise or Louisa.


damma

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمَّة (ḍamma, “a joining”), instance noun of the verb ضَمَّ (ḍamma, “to join”). Refers to the joining of the lips together when making an /u/ sound.

(linguistics) In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/.

ضَمَّة

an Arabic diacritic denoting the vowel point "u" (ḍamma)


Combine

From combine, referring to the merger and purchase of various underground railway, tram and bus companies in London, combining them into one organisation. Originally applied to Underground Electric Railways of London Company Ltd, since used for successor organisations.


wau

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ϝαῦ (waû). Doublet of vav and waw.


Bennie

A diminutive of the female given names Bernice or Bernadette.


Uto-Aztecan

From Uto- + Aztecan.
* (General American) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˌju.toʊ.æzˈtɛ.kən/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˌjuː.təʊ.æzˈtɛ.kən/
*
 Audio (Southern England): (file)
* Rhymes: -ɛkən
* Hyphenation: U‧to-Az‧te‧can

IPA

A certain Native American language family including a large number of geographically distant languages such as Hopi, Nahuatl (Aztec) and Comanche.


Vikki

20th-century fanciful respelling of Vicky.

A diminutive of the female given name Victoria, variant of Vicky, also used as a formal given name.


Lauretta

An Italian pet form of Laura; first introduced into English as the name of one of the narrators in the Decameron.

Lauretta, ay, you would have her called so; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names; if you had called her Deborah, or Tabitha, or Ruth, or Rebecca, or Joan, nothing of this had ever happened; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name.

1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, St. Patrick's Day, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 58:


Marshall Islander

en-noun

Marshall Islander (plural Marshall Islanders)


Pitcairner

A native or inhabitant of the Pitcairn Islands.


Solomon Islander

Solomon Islander (plural Solomon Islanders)


Hollander

From Middle English holander, Hollander; equivalent to Holland + -er; compare the German Holländer.


Haryanvi

A Hindi language spoken by about thirteen million people in northern India.


Brython

From Welsh Brython. Doublet of Briton and Breton.

A (historical) Briton: a member of that people that spoke Brythonic languages.


Marky

A diminutive of the male given name Mark.


Baekje

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 백제(百濟) (Baekje).

(historical) An ancient language spoken in that kingdom.


Adullamite

From Adullam + -ite, in the political sense from a speech by John Bright in Parliament on 13 March 1866 deriding the anti-reformist faction of Edward Horsman as a “Cave of Adullam”, i.e. a group of malcontents.

(UK politics, historical) A member of the anti-reform faction of the British Liberal Party in the 19th century.


Kirundi

The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi which is spoken in Burundi.


Thatcherize

en-verb

Thatcherize (third-person singular simple present Thatcherizes, present participle Thatcherizing, simple past and past participle Thatcherized)

Thatcherizes (present singular third-person)
Thatcherizing (participle present)
Thatcherized (participle past)
Thatcherized (past)

From Thatcher + -ize, named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).

named-after

Throughout the 1980s, she had been Thatcherizing the Cabinet.

1991, Bruce Anderson, John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister:

This Thatcherized ethos showed how easily militant economism worked against the Left, once the postwar settlement's corporatist scaffolding was gone […]

(transitive, UK politics) To subject to Thatcherism.

(transitive) To modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.


Maccy D's

Mum would kill me if she saw me in Maccy D's for breakfast.

We sat in Maccy D's for a little while before she started work in the afternoon.

2006, Jason Ellis, Banana Skins on the Table:

And anyway we went into the service station because he wanted a burger from Maccy D's and I wanted a Coke.

Tony H said: “Handy for something to eat simply .Great coffee. I like Macky Ds occasionally when I am out and about. It was clean and food was hot. So good!”

2019 December 21, Elle May Rice, “The best and worst McDonald's in Liverpool as rated by TripAdvisor”, in Liverpool Echo:


tekke

From Ottoman Turkish تكه (tekke), from Classical Persian تکیه (takya). Doublet of takya, takiyya, and takyeh.

In Turkey, a dervish or Sufi lodge or place of worship; alternative form of takya.


Nigerian Pidgin

An English-based creole of Nigeria, combining vocabulary and grammar from the English language as well as various indigenous Nigerian languages.


personal name

A proper name identifying an individual person, especially the full name.


i-breve

The Latin letter "I" with the breve diacritical mark.


Sasak

The language spoken by the Sasak people.


legal name

The legal name of "Jack's Mattresses" is "JM Enterprises {2006} (Illinois) Inc.".

The name of an organisation as indicated in its founding documents, or as subsequently changed by legal process.


Elmo

From an Italian contraction of Erasmo, cognate with Erasmus. Also a German short form of Elmar.
* By folk etymology seen as a short form of Elmer.

MING. About his name. Oscar. Asians always pick out the most curious and most discarded English names from books and TV. Like Cornelius. Elmo. Wellington.

1996 Chay Yew, A Language of Their Own, Two Plays, Grove/Atlantic Inc.

An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

Twitter was far from perfect before Elmo happened to it but it’s a total shitshow now!

2022 December 12, marie_cast (@marie_cast@toad.social), Mastodon:

It is certainly conceivable that Elmo’s ragtag of leftover desperate engineers put out a feature without properly testing it. 😂

2023 February 8, Jim Stewartson (@jimstewartson@toad.social), Mastodon:

Incredible how low Twitter has sunk since Elmo fired the grownups.

2023 March 19, Alice (@alicek@mas.to), Mastodon:

(derogatory or humorous) A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.


Cohen

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Muscogee

The Muskogean language spoken by the Muscogee.


Kokborok

Borrowed from Kokborok Kok Borok, from kok (“language”) + borok (“people”).

The Sino-Tibetan language of the Tripuri people in the Indian state of Tripura and its neighboring areas of Bangladesh.


Kirby

en-proper noun

Kirby (countable and uncountable, plural Kirbies)

Originally Kirkby, from kirk (“church”) + -by (“habitation”), "village with a church".

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


Prue

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

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


Illinoisan

/ˌɪləˈnɔɪən/

/ˌɪləˈnɔɪzən/


Illinoisan

/ˌɪləˈnɔɪən/

/ˌɪləˈnɔɪzən/


Haida

From Southern Haida X̲aayda /ħaːjd̥a/; compare Northern Haida xaad /ħaːd̥/.

The Haida language, called Skittagetan by Powell, was anciently spoken only on the Queen Charlotte islands off the coast of British Columbia.

1911, John R. Swanton, “Haida”, in Franz Boas, editor, Handbook of American Indian Languages, Washington, page 209:


Ibibio

The language spoken by the Ibibio people of Akwa Ibom State of southern Nigeria. It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family.


Baha

From Arabic بَهَاء (bahāʔ, “splendor, glory”).


Kumyk

a Turkic language spoken by the Kumyks in the Dagestan region of the Russian Federation.


PCC

parochial church council
parochial church council#English

(Church of England) Initialism of parochial church council.


Smriti

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Edythe

A female given name from Old English, variant of Edith.


Ndrumbea

An Austronesian language spoken in parts of New Caledonia, with ISO 639-3 code duf.


Meyer

en-proper noun

Meyer (countable and uncountable, plural Meyers)

* As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun Meier (“leaseholder of a manor”). Compare Maier, Mayer, Meier, Myer.
* As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish מאיר (mir). Compare Majer, Major, Mayor, Meir.
* As a Dutch/West Flemish surname, variant of Meijer.

(countable) A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, an alternative form of Meir.


Istanbulite

(demonym) a person from or living in Istanbul


Dutch Low Saxon

(uncommon) A non-standardized cluster of regional dialects of Low Saxon (Low German), influenced by Dutch, spoken in the northeastern provinces of the Netherlands, and recognized as a minority language by the European Union.


Vahagn

Borrowed from Armenian Վահագն (Vahagn). Doublet of Verethragna.

Վահագն Վահագն#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Վահագն (Vahagn).


Yurok

Borrowed from Karok [Term?] (“downriver [people]”), as they live on the Klamath River downstream of the Karuk, whose name means "upriver [people]".

bor+

A member of a particular Native American tribe of Northern California.


Pumpokol

A Yeniseian language formerly spoken in Siberia that has been extinct since the 18th century.


Kott

A Yeniseian language which was spoken in Siberia and has been extinct for 150 years.


Arpitan

A neologism coined by Joseph Henriet, a word meaning "mountaineer" or "shepherd" deliberately chosen to "sound like Occitan," based on a local derivative of Latin Alpes (“the Alps, mountain highlands”). Aligned with Franco-Provençal arpetan, New Latin arpitanus. Also see Arpitania and Franco-Provençal.


Thais

From Ancient Greek Θαΐς (Thaḯs), became known as the name of the mistress of Alexander the Great.


Franco-Provençal

A Romance language spoken in east-central France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy.


Yeniseian

A family of languages spoken in central Siberia.

Proto-Yeniseian: the hypothetical parent language of the Yeniseian language family.


Yeniseian

Jenisejisch

of or relating to the languages of the Yeniseian family, or their speakers

Of or relating to the languages comprising the Yeniseian language family, or their speakers.

Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Yeniseian language family.


Alander

From Aland (“group of islands in the Baltic Sea”) + -er.


Zooey

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


Arbëresh

Borrowed from Albanian arbëresh, a rhotic variant of arbënesh (“Albanian”), from Arbën (“Albanian”) + -esh (ablative suffix).

The form of the Albanian language spoken by the Arbëreshë people in southern Italy.

arbërisht

form of Albanian spoken in southern Italy


Arvanitika

/ˌɑːvəˈnɪtɪkə/

Borrowed from Greek αρβανίτικα (arvanítika), a dialectal variant of αλβανικά (alvaniká, “Albanian”) related to Byzantine Greek Ἀρβανίτης (Arbanítēs).
Borrowed from the albanian word and self-designation Arbër, rhotic variant of Arbën.

An archaic form of the Albanian language spoken by a linguistic minority in Greece.


Gazan

A native or inhabitant of Gaza (Gaza City or the Gaza Strip in general).


Tennessean

United States of America
United States of America

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


Zolten

A male given name derivative of the common Hungarian name Zoltán.


Sekgalagadi

Sekgalagadi has noun classes like those of the other Bantu languages.

1997, Lars-Gunnar Andersson, Tore Janson, Languages in Botswana: Language Ecology in Southern Africa:

A language spoken in the Kgalagadi region of Botswana.


Jurchen

From a reconstruction of Jurchen *jörcen, attested via Middle Chinese 竹里真 (ʈɨuk̚ lɨ^X t͡ɕiɪn) and Khitan 𘲮𘯤𘰭 (*ju rả n), developed under the influence of Manchu ᠵᡠᡵᠴᡳᡨ (jurcit) and Classical Mongolian ᠵᠦᠷᠴᠢᠳ (ǰürčid). Vajda argues for a derivation from a Proto-Tungusic word meaning "reindeer people", cognate with the Orochs of Russia's Khabarovsk Province and the Oroks of Sakhalin.

A member of a medieval and early modern Tungusic people, progenitors of the Manchus.


Jurchen

An extinct Tungusic language (code jur), related to Manchu.


Saterland Frisian

a Frisian language spoken mostly in the municipality of Saterland in the district of Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany


Zsuzsanna

A female given name from Hungarian, equivalent to English Susanna.


Burhan

From Arabic بُرْهَان (burhān, “proof”), an epithet of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.


Kenzie

A female given name, short form of MacKenzie

A male given name, short form of MacKenzie


Jehoshaphat

/d͡ʒəˈhoʊ.ʃəˌfæt/

/d͡ʒəˈhɒʃ.ə.fæt/

/d͡ʒɪˈhɒʃ.ə.fæt/

From Hebrew יְהוֹשָׁפָט, from יהוה (“Yahweh”) + שָׁפַט (shafát, “to judge”), meaning "Yahweh has judged".

der

Hebrew יְהוֹשָׁפָט

compound

(biblical) A male given name from Hebrew


Bennet

From Benedict. See French Benoît, Norman Beneît. Doublet of Benoit and Benito.

A male given name from Latin, in modern use often transferred back from the surname.


Malia

Borrowed from Hawaiian Malia (“Mary”) and in some cases from Mālia (“calm”).


Jensen

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Croesus

Audio (US)

From Latin Croesus, from Ancient Greek Κροῖσος (Kroîsos), from Lydian.

(historical) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Abednego

/əˈbɛd.nɪˌɡoʊ/

From Hebrew עֲבֵד נְגוֹא, itself derived from a reconstructed Aramaic name meaning likely "servant of Nabu" or "servant of Nergal".

bor

עֲבֵד נְגוֹא

Hebrew עֲבֵד נְגוֹא


Miggy

Fantastic, superb, brilliant, bloody marvellous — I could go on and on calling out superlatives about Xenon 2. It's had enough pre-release hype to rival Batman and it's blown away all other Miggy shoot-'em-ups to date and I can safely say, for quite a while to come as well.

1989, Xenon II Megablast (video game review in Zzap! issue 54, October 1989)

Then do like I do and keep the Miggy for all e-mail and news. No dodgy headers to give you away then :-)

1997, Chris Hewitt, “Where Is everybody?”, in demon.ip.support.amiga (Usenet):

I had no problems with using WD hard drives on my Miggies.

1998, Zorko Antonic, “Western Digital HD”, in comp.sys.amiga.applications (Usenet):


Kamassian

An extinct Samoyedic language that was spoken by Kamasins in Siberia.


Kamasin

A member of an extinct Samoyedic tribe that lived in Siberia.