Dictionary - Etymology: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Etymology
etymology: The science of the origin of words and their development. The history of a word. See: Nirukta Vedanga, Sanskrit. (See als...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Classification
See also: Chinese character classification Chinese character - By etymology. Chinese scholars have traditionally classified Han charact...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etymology: Encyclopedia Ii - Etymology - English Etymology
As a language, English is derived from the Anglo-Saxon, a dialect of West Germanic (as was Old Low German), although its current vocabula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etymology: Encyclopedia - Etymology
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Some words have been derived from other languages, possibly in a changed form (the source...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedangas: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Vedangas (vedhaangaa)
Vedangas: Vedangas (Vedhaangaa). Subsidiary treatises of the Vedas: six sciences of proper pronunciation, grammar, metre, etymology...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Narayana: Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary On Narayana
Narayana: A proper name of God-specifically of Vishnu. The term by etymology means a Being that supports all things, that is reached b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tridandi: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Tridandi
Tridandi (Sanskrit). The name generally given to a class or sect of Sanyasis who constantly keep in the hand a kind of club (danda) br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etymology: Encyclopedia Ii - Etymology - History Of Etymology
The search for meaningful origins for familiar or strange words is far older than the modern understanding of linguistic evolution and th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nirukta: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Nirukta
Nirukta (Sanskrit) [from nir forth, out + the verbal root vac to speak, utter]   Uttered, pronounced, expressed, defined; as a no...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedanga: Sai Baba Dictionary On Vedanga
Vedanga: Vedanga: Veda-limb. Six branches of post-Vedic studies revered as auxiliary to the Vedas. Four Vedangas govern correct cha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Helios, Helion, Helius: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Helios, Helion, Helius
Helios, Helion, Helius (Greek) The sun god, son of Hyperion and Theia, brother of Selene (the moon) and Eos (the dawn). He drives the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Balaam, Bil`am: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Balaam, Bil`am
Balaam bil`am (Hebrew) (etymology uncertain)   One of the prophets of the Old Testament, last and greatest of the gentile prophet...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heliolatry: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heliolatry
Helios, Helion, Helius (Greek) The sun god, son of Hyperion and Theia, brother of Selene (the moon) and Eos (the dawn). He drives the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Set, Seth: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Set, Seth
SET/SETH Dark god of Egypt -- ruled the Redlands, or Desert, hence those things that were most fearful to the Egyptians. Sometimes ass...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Temperance: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Temperance
TEMPERANCE Arcanum xiv, "The Lower Self," lettered Samech, ruled by Sagittarius. Ouspensky called this "Time," bec...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Salamander: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Salamander
SALAMANDER Fire elemental. A small salamander manages hearth and furnace and a larger one deals with volcanoes, earthly holocausts and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Monas Monadum: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Monas Monadum
Monas Monadum In Leibniz' system of monads, the supreme monad, which is infinite and upon which there depend three classes of finite m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pneumatology: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pneumatology
Pneumatology The study of gases; the study of beings intermediate between God or other divinity and man, including in the lower ranges...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Philosophy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Philosophy
Philosophy The Greek philosophia meant love of wisdom, but with equal power of significance, although perhaps not etymologically as co...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eridanus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Eridanus
Eridanus (Greek) In Greek mythology, a river into which Zeus cast Phaethon, a son of Helios (the sun), when he rashly tried to drive t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Deus Mundus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Deus Mundus
Deus Mundus (Latin) World God; the maker and ruler of the world. In one sense, the esoteric hierarchical head of the present world ord...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kadosh: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Kadosh
Kadosh (Hebrew, Jewish). Consecrated, holy; also written Kodesh. Something set apart for temple worship. But between the etymological ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transformism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Transformism
Transformism Adopted from the French, it is the process of evolution as understood by Lamarck and Darwin, as distinguished from evolut...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mars: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Mars
MARS Planet of energy and courage. The ability to initiate and complete a task. The indicator of how we oppose and challenge the world...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Dictionaries
The design and use of a dictionary of Chinese characters presents interesting problems. Dozens of indexing schemes have been created for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Number Of Chinese Characters
The question of how many characters there are is still the subject of debate. In the 18th century, European scholars claimed the total ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia - Chinese Character
Chinese characters or Han characters (Traditional: 漢字; Simplified: 汉字; Hanyu Pinyin: Hànzì) are logograms used in the written f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dictionary: Encyclopedia - Dictionary
A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heresy: Encyclopedia - Heresy
Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a "theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adam's Apple: Encyclopedia - Adam's Apple
The human larynx rests in a frame of cartilage bound by ligaments and muscles. At the front is the thyroid cartilage, creating the lump a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yule: Encyclopedia - Yule
Yule was the winter solstice celebration of the Germanic pagans. In Germanic Neopaganism it is one of the eight solar holidays, or sabbat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aphorism: Encyclopedia - Aphorism
Aphorism (From the Greek αφοριζειν, to define), literally a distinction or a definition (See the Online Etymology Dictionary ent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Radicals
Main article: radical Each character has at least one fundamental component, or radical (部首 bù shǒu, lit. "part and initial"), and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cf.: Encyclopedia - Cf.
cf. is an abbreviation for the Latin word confer, meaning "compare" or "consult." It is commonly used in common and statute law contexts,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paradigm: Encyclopedia - Paradigm
Since the late 1800s, the word paradigm (IPA: /pæɹɘdaɪm/) has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mannaz: Encyclopedia - Mannaz
Mannaz or Manwaz is the Proto-Germanic term for "man", in the gender-neutral sense of "person, human being". The word developed into Old ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brownie Points: Encyclopedia - Brownie Points
Brownie points are a hypothetical currency, which can be accrued by doing good deeds on or off the net or earning favor in the eyes of an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Orthography
Usually Chinese characters each take up the same amount of space, due to their block, square nature. One of the easiest ways for beginner...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Reforms
Although most often associated with the PRC, character simplification predates the 1949 communist victory. Caoshu, cursive written text, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Derivatives Of Han Characters
Besides Korean and Japanese, a number of Asian languages have historically been written with Han characters, or with characters modified ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Rare And Complex Characters
Often a character not commonly used (a "rare" or "variant" character) will appear in a personal or place name in Chinese, Japanese, and K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Origin
According to legend, the inventor of Chinese characters was named Cangjie (c. 2650 BC), but this may be only a myth. Another tradition as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Styles
The earliest Chinese characters are the so called Oracle Script of the late Shang Dynasty, followed by the Bronzeware Script (金文 jīn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etymology Of The Word Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Etymology Of The Word Arab - Semitic Etymology
Any historical linguistic analysis, including the etymology of the word Arab, out of necessity has to be based on - learned or political ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuck: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuck - Etymology
The etymology of fuck has given rise to a great deal of speculation, which should be regarded skeptically. The authoritative Oxford Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuck: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuck - Etymology
The etymology of fuck has given rise to a great deal of speculation, which should be regarded skeptically. The authoritative Oxford Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leprechaun: Encyclopedia Ii - Leprechaun - Etymology
There are a number of possible etymologies of the name "leprechaun". One of the most widely accepted theories is that the name comes from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cowardice: Encyclopedia Ii - Cowardice - Etymology
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word "coward" comes from an Old French word coart, a combination of the word for "tail...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - Origins
The dictionary had no university connection originally; it was conceived in London as a project of the Philological Society, when Richard...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The First Editors
Trench played a key role in the first months of the project, but his ecclesiastical career meant that he could not give the dictionary th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Oxford Editors
At the same time the Society had become concerned about the publication of what it was now clear would have to be an immensely large book...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Fascicles
By early 1894 a total of 11 fascicles had been published, or about one per year: four for A-B, five for C, and two for E. Of these, eight...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The First Edition And The First Supplement
It had been planned to publish the New English Dictionary in 10 volumes, respectively starting with A, C, D, F, H, L, O, Q, Si, and Ti; b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Second Supplement And The Second Edition
In 1933 Oxford University had finally put the great dictionary to rest; all work ended, and the quotation slips went into storage. But of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Compact Editions
Meanwhile, in 1971, the full content of the 13-volume OED1 from 1933 was reprinted as a Compact Edition of just two volumes. This was ach...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Electronic Versions
Now that the text of the dictionary was digitized and online, it could also be published on CD-ROM. There have been three versions so far...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Third Edition
The planned Third Edition, or OED3, is intended as a nearly complete overhaul of the work. Currently (as of 2005) John Simpson is the Chi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - Spelling
The OED lists British spellings for headwords first (for example, labour and centre), followed by other variants (labor, center, etc.). O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dead Reckoning: Encyclopedia Ii - Dead Reckoning - Etymology
There is some controversy about the derivation of the phrase. It is popularly thought to come from deduced reckoning and is sometimes giv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pita: Encyclopedia Ii - Pita - Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first mention of the word in English was in 1951, with references to Balkan, Greek, and e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polymath: Encyclopedia Ii - Polymath - Etymological Differentiation Between Polymath And Polyhistor
Many dictionaries and dictionaries of word origins list these words as synonyms. Thus, today, regardless of any differentiation they may ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melungeon: Encyclopedia Ii - Melungeon - Etymology
There are many hypotheses about the etymology of the term "Melungeon". Kennedy (1994) speculates that it derives from the Turkish melun c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastern Romance Substratum: Encyclopedia Ii - Eastern Romance Substratum - Lexical Items
Older Romanian etymological dictionaries tended to assume a borrowing in many cases, usually from a Slavic language or from Hungarian, bu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Webster's Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Webster's Dictionary - Webster's Third New International
After about a decade of preparation, Merriam issued the entirely new Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged (familiarly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latium: Encyclopedia Ii - Latium - Etymology
The name of the region also survives in the tribal designation of the ancient population of Latins, from whom the Romans originated. In R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Karel Čapek: Encyclopedia Ii - Karel Čapek - Etymology Of Robot
The word robot comes from the word robota meaning "drudgery", "work of a villein" in literary Czech and "work", "labor" in literary Slova...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imperialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Imperialism - Etymology
The term imperialism was a new word in the mid-19th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it dates back to 1858. The Latin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Go Verb: Encyclopedia Ii - Go Verb - Origins Of Windan
The Oxford English Dictionary's entry for wand simply states that words like wend, wind, wand, and wander all have a common PIE root, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nihon Kokugo Daijiten: Encyclopedia Ii - Nihon Kokugo Daijiten - Problems
Shogakukan has compared its Nikkoku dictionary to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) because Nikkoku represents the largest and most tho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Information: Encyclopedia Ii - Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest historical meaning of the word information in English was the act of informing, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luggage: Encyclopedia Ii - Luggage - Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word luggage enters printed English in 1596. The word dervied from the verb "lug," as in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bullshit: Encyclopedia Ii - Bullshit - Etymology
Bull, meaning nonsense, dates from around the 17th century (Concise Oxford Dictionary), whereas the term bullshit was first used in 1915,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wordnet: Encyclopedia Ii - Wordnet - Limitations
Unlike other dictionaries, WordNet does not include information about etymology, pronunciation and the forms of irregular verbs and conta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Information: Encyclopedia Ii - Information - Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest historical meaning of the word information in English was the act of informing, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pastiche: Encyclopedia Ii - Pastiche - Pastiche As Hodge-podge
Pastiche is also used with a rather different meaning: a work is called pastiche if it was cobbled together in imitation of several origi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jurisprudence: Encyclopedia Ii - Jurisprudence - Etymology
Per the American Heritage Dictionary, jurisprudence is the English for jurisprudentia. This is the Late Latin form of a compound word, or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lepton: Encyclopedia Ii - Lepton - Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the name "lepton" (from Greek leptos) was first used by physicist Léon Rosenfeld in 1948: F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deadline Time Limit: Encyclopedia Ii - Deadline Time Limit - Etymology
This usage of deadline comes originally from journalism, representing the time limit for submitting copy to the printer to be typeset. It...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Serif: Encyclopedia Ii - Serif - Background
In the Roman alphabet, serifs originated with the carving of words into stone in ancient Italy. Artisans would carve out a bit of extra s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arvanitic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Arvanitic Language - Name
The terms "Arvanitika" and "Arvanitic" derive from the word "Avanitai" (Αρβανίται). The etymology according to Yannis Koulakis' ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luggage: Encyclopedia Ii - Luggage - Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word luggage enters printed English in 1596. The word derived from the verb "lug," as in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toponymy: Encyclopedia Ii - Toponymy - Toponymist
A toponymist is one who studies toponymy. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first occurrence of the word "toponymist" can b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pikey: Encyclopedia Ii - Pikey - Related Terms
Related terms for urban or suburban miscreants can be found in the dictionary entry for "chav". The popularity of these terms has grown s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilderness: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilderness - Definition
The word wilderness is derived from the notion of wildness, in other words that which is not controllable by humans. The word's etymology...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hungarian Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Hungarian Alphabet - Pronunciation
One of Hungarian orthography's principles is being phonetic among with being traditional, etymologic and simplifying. The current edition...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sushi: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sushi - Etymology
The Japanese name "sushi" is written with kanji (Chinese Characters) for ancient Chinese dishes which bear little resemblance to today's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corporation: Encyclopedia Ii - Corporation - Origins
Corporation - Etymology. The word "corporation" derives from the Latin corpus (body), representing a "body of people"; that is, a group...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Etymology
The idea of demons is as old as religion itself, and the word "demon" seems to have ancient origins. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Etymology
The idea of demons is as old as religion itself, and the word "demon" seems to have ancient origins. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corporation: Encyclopedia Ii - Corporation - Origins
Corporation - Etymology. The word "corporation" derives from the Latin Corpus (body), representing a "body of people"; that is, a group...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hinayana: Encyclopedia Ii - Hinayana - Etymology
The Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1899), gives a translation of 'Hīna' as: "deficient, defective, faulty, isuffic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irony: Encyclopedia Ii - Irony - Usage Controversy
The material above deals with the primary dictionary meaning of the word irony. There is no controversy that the usage above is a correct...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ketchup: Encyclopedia Ii - Ketchup - Etymology
Ketchup - Early uses in English. The word entered the English language in England during the late seventeenth century, appearing in pri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - D'oh!: Encyclopedia Ii - D'oh! - Usage
The term d'oh! has been adopted by many Simpsons fans. The term has become commonplace in modern speech and demonstrates the reach of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irony: Encyclopedia Ii - Irony - Usage Controversy
The material above deals with the primary dictionary meaning of the word irony. There is no controversy that the usage above is a correct...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guru: Encyclopedia Ii - Guru - Succession And Lineage Parampara
The word parampara (Sanskrit परमपरा) denotes a long succession of teachers and disciples in traditional Indian culture. The H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gossip: Encyclopedia Ii - Gossip - Etymology
The word "gossip" originates from god-sib, the godparent of one's child or parent of one's godchildren ("god-sibling"), referring to a re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brownie Points: Encyclopedia Ii - Brownie Points - Origins
The Oxford English Dictionary conjectures that this expression could also have derived from US military slang for sycophants, "brownnoser...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homophobia: Encyclopedia Ii - Homophobia - Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word homophobia in the meaning "fear or hatred of homosexuals and homosexuality" was firs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Angel - Latter-day Saint Views
Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism), and several of his associates, claimed that they were visited by...   » Read the article