the investigation and interpretation of myths," from Late Latinmythologia, from Greekmythologia"legendary lore, a telling of mythic legends; a legend, story, tale," frommythos"myth" (a word of unknown origin; seemyth) +-logia(see-logy"study"). Meaning "a body or system of myths" is reco...
1798, "to make obscure, obscure the meaning of;" 1814, "perplex purposely," from French mystifier (1772), a verb formed irregularly from mystique "mysterious" (see mystic (adj.)) + -fier "to make" (see -fy). Related: Mystified; mystifying. ...
An Etymology Study of "Woman" 来自 掌桥科研 喜欢 0 阅读量: 2 作者: 李永仙 摘要: There is a unique history of evolution behind every single word surviving into Modern English. This paper is to explore the etymology and history of evolution of the word"woman" in terms of spelling (...
In the case of Applecross (first attested as Aporcrosan), it has been transformed by a folk etymology. WikiMatrix Then he wrote, clearly and carefully, FOLK ETYMOLOGY. Literature This myth reflects the folk etymology that equates Pan's name (Πάν) with the Greek word for "all" (...
In ancient myth, the heavens were said to be supported on a high mountain in northwestern Africa, represented as, and now named after, the Titan Atlas. In its Greek adjectival form Atlantikós (later Latin Atlanticus) it was applied to the seas immediately to the west of Africa, and ...
and thus the set of skills and range of knowledge of their wisdom elite. When their political counterparts discovered gullibility of people as means to have them pay for their parties, religions and priests in the modern sense of the word emerged, but before that, a culture's wisdom elite ...
Physiographically, Denmark belongs to the North European Plain rather than to the geologically distinct Scandinavian peninsula (which is part of the ancient Baltic Shield), occupied by Norway and Sweden. Sometimes the word “Norden” is applied to the five countries because it avoids the ...
As always, this orthographic research becomes a window into our past where one word leads to another. In the foreground to the left, reapers mow the crop with scythes. Scythe and its distant ancestor, the Proto Indo European root *sek- to cut, is the shared ancestral source of other ...
Interestingly, a slight shift in meaning had occurred, as the OED defines the plural as “a condition of dullness or drowsiness; dumps, low spirits, depression.” We can hardly blame slang for changing, of course, as that is part of its nature. As for the actual etymology of the word,...
The creation account of Genesis 1 is not so much a primitive myth, but rather the most rudimentary blueprint of how evolution works. It's not linear; it's afractal. All of Scriptures is a continuation of that fractal — and a fractal is a structure that gets repeated at different levels...