c. 1300, "incantation, magic charm," from Old French charme (12c.) "magic charm, magic spell incantation; song, lamentation," from Latin carmen "song, verse, enchantment, religious formula," from canere "to sing" (from PIE root *kan- "to sing"), with dissimilation of -n- to -r-...
a name of the sun in ancient Egypt, from Egyptianitn. Entries linking toAten Aton variant ofAten. Trends ofAten ShareAten ‘cite’ https://www.etymonline.com/word/Aten Etymology of Aten by etymonline Harper, D. (n.d.). Etymology of Aten. Online Etymology...
So important was kermes (coccus) as a commercial source of scarlet dye that derivatives of the name for it have displaced the original word for "red" in many languages, such as Welshcoch(from Latin), Modern Greekkokkinos. Also compare Russiančcermnyj"purple-red," Old Church Slavonicčru...
popular type of plastic ball-point pen, designed c. 1950 in France, named 1953 as a shortened form of the name of company co-founder Marcel Bich (1914
" Lithuanianmerkti"shut the eyes, blink," from PIE*mer-"to flicker" (seemorn). In Middle English also as an adjective (c. 1300, from Old Norse) and a verb. Sometimes spelledmirk, especially in Scotland.Mirk Mondaywas long the name in Scotland for the great solar eclipse of March 29...
c. 1300, "incantation, magic charm," from Old French charme (12c.) "magic charm, magic spell incantation; song, lamentation," from Latin carmen "song, verse, enchantment, religious formula," from canere "to sing" (from PIE root *kan- "to sing"), with dissimilation of -n- to -r-...
"magic charm, magic spell incantation; song, lamentation," from Latin carmen "song, verse, enchantment, religious formula," from canere "to sing" (from PIE root *kan- "to sing"), with dissimilation of -n- to -r- b copacetic "fine, excellent, going well," 1919, but it may have ...
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The origin and signification of the word was much discussed when the buses first appeared. Some reports say the slang word for "nickel" comes from the bus; most say the reverse, however there does not seem to be much record of jitney in a coin sense before the buses came along (a writ...
Origin and history of hokey-pokey hokey-pokey(n.) 翻译成: 简体中文 (Chinese) 1847, "false cheap material," perhaps an alteration of hocus-pocus, or from the nonsense chorus and title of a comic song (Hokey Pokey Whankey Fong) that was popular c. 1830. Applied especially to cheap ice...