2013年11月7日 · When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit in the Americas, they called them "pineapples" (first so referenced in 1664 due to resemblance to what is now known as the pine cone).[7][8] In the scientific binomial Ananas comosus, ananas, the original name of the fruit, comes from the Tupi word nanas, meaning "excellent fruit",[9] as ...

The name "Santa Claus" comes from a dialect of Dutch, where the word was "Sante Klaas". In this case, it was not a feminine suffix; the word evolved into Santa, which only coincidentally looks like the feminine form of saint in some languages.

2012年12月31日 · The OED gives the etymology of grim as: OE. grim(m) = OFris. grim, OS. grim (Dutch grim), OHG. and MHG. grim (G. grimm), ONor. grimmr (Sw. grym harsh, Da. grim ugly). Ormin employs a disyllabic form grimme, corresponding to OHG. grimmi, MHG. grimme. The OTeut. root *grem-is an ablaut-variant of *gram-; see grame a. So it would seem the same word.

2011年1月29日 · The word 'pen' means hill. Later, the next incomers changed the hill's name to 'Pendle', meaning 'hill hill'. And then the next incomers, not knowing the etymology (and sadly lacking an internet) called it Pendle Hill or 'hill hill hill', so Pendle Hill really, really, really is a hill, because anything said three times is the truth.

2018年4月18日 · Etymology: < Scottish Gaelic peata tame animal, now also 'spoilt child' (Early Irish petta, Irish peata tame animal, occasionally referring to spoilt humans), .... Use with the meaning "spoilt human" almost certainly contributed to adoption of the collocation 'pet name', in the sense where a 'pet name' expresses "fondness or familiarity" (OED).

2015年4月7日 · The island is the (now infamous) Robben Island, and the birds are Blackfoot Penguins. The site mentions as an explanation for the name of the bird the Welsh Great Auk connection, but without much conviction. It does mention Pinguinus impennis as the Latin name for the Auk. The Dutch etymology site etymologiebank has some other sources:

2010年11月30日 · <given name> son <of father's given name> For example, Donnchadh who is the son of Fearchar mac Domhnaill would be: Donnchadh mac Fearchair which means Donnchadh son of Fearchar. O' is the Anglicized way to write Ó "male descendant of". The standard way to form a name using an Irish clan affiliation byname for men is:

2019年2月1日 · Arsesmart (variously spelled) is first attested in the OED around 1300, as ersmert, an alternative name for water pepper. The origin is assumed to be simple composition, arse referring to a person's buttocks and smart in the verb sense of feeling pain, as asserted by John Minsheu in his 1617 Ductor in Linguas ( Guide into Tongues ):

2011年11月25日 · Etymonline explains:. cum (verb and noun) seems to be a modern (by 1973) variant of the sexual sense of come that originated in pornographic writing, perhaps first in the noun sense.

Chamber's 20th Century Dictionary (and a 1980-ish version of it, at that) says: sine - (math.) n. orig. the perpendicular from one end of an arc to the diameter through the other: now (as a function of an angle) the ratio of the side opposite (or its …