(Mharatta), from MarathiMaratha, corresponding to SanskritMaharastrah, literally "great country," frommaha-"great" (from PIE root*meg-"great") +rastra"kingdom," fromraj"to rule" (from PIE root*reg-"move in a straight line," with derivatives meaning "to direct in a straight line," ...
That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning. 2. That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection. ...
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to cover," especially with a roof. It forms all or part of:deck(n.) "covering over part of a ship;"deck(v.) "adorn;"deckle;detect;integument;protect;protection;stegosaurus;tegular;tegument;thatch;thug;tile;Tuileries. ...
"There is no such [Old English] word as hen-bana, hen murderer, and the notion of the… See origin and meaning of henbane.
"hollow," in reference to the depression in which it stands. Used allusively in English… See origin and meaning of timbuktu.
1935, from a native name in Ghana for the disease. also from1935 Trends ofkwashiorkor Sharekwashiorkor ‘cite’ https://www.etymonline.com/word/kwashiorkor Etymology of kwashiorkor by etymonline Harper, D. (n.d.). Etymology of kwashiorkor. Online Etymology...
tank(n.1) 1610s, "pool or lake for irrigation or drinking water," a word originally brought by the Portuguese from India, from a Hindi source, such as Gujaratitankh"cistern, underground reservoir for water," Marathitanken, ortanka"reservoir of water, tank." Perhaps it is ultimately from ...
The slang meaning "detention cell" is from 1912. The railroad tank-car, for bulk transport of liquids, is from 1874. think (v.) Middle English thinken, a convergence of two Old English verbs from the same prehistoric source but with distinct forms and senses. Thinken (1) "present the ...
1781, earlierred-hand(early 15c.), originally in Scottish legal writing, fromred(adj.1) +-handed; presumably from the image of a murderer's hands stained with fresh blood, extended figuratively to one caught in perpetration of any crime. ...
off(prep., adv.) by c. 1200 as an emphatic form of Old Englishof(seeof), employed in the adverbial use of that word. The prepositional meaning "away from" and the adjectival sense of "farther" were not firmly fixed in this variant until 17c., but once they were they left the origi...