Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology
UK Vereinigtes Königreich (Großbritannien u. Nordirland), Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Spiele, Jeu, Game
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Anagramm
(E?)(L?) http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram
(E?)(L?) http://www.wordsmith.org/words/anagram.wav
Die Umstellung der Buchstaben, um Wortspiele oder Decknamen zu bilden.
anagram (AN-a-gram) noun - A rearrangement of letters in a word, phrase, or name to form another word, phrase, or name.
[From Middle French 'anagramme', from New Latin 'anagramma', from 'ana-' = 'back, up'
+ '-gram' = 'something written'.]
Can you create one word out of the letters in new door?
The answer is "one word". The letters in new door are the same as those in one word, except in a different order.
When is enough not enough?
When you rearrange the letters in 'enough', you get 'one hug'. Everybody knows that 'one hug' is never 'enough'!
Aptagrams are words or statements that uncannily anagram into their own synonyms or into uncannily related ideas:
- aboard/abroad
- abode/adobe
- note/tone
Next up in this phase of anagramazing program are words and phrases that we can shape into heaps of other meaningful phrases:
- dormitory DIRTY ROOM
- Statue of Liberty BUILT TO STAY FREE
- television set SEE? IT'S VIOLENT!
No wonder that an acronym of anagram is A New, Appropriate, Grandly Rearranged, Alphabetic Message. No wonder that those who believe in the magical potency of words have hailed the anagram as AH, AN ART GEM! and anagrams as ARS MAGNA, "the great art".
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Backgammon (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.bartleby.com/61/20/B0012000.html
(E1)(L1) http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=backgammon&searchmode=none
"Backgammon" setzt sich zusammen aus "back" = "zurück" (weil Steine evtl. zurückgesetzt werden müssen) und "gammon", das auf mengl. "gamen" = "Spiel" zurückgeht.
(E3)(L1) http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/b/backgammon.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.bg-info.de/
Deutsches Backgammon-Portal: Spielregeln, Links, Turnierergebnisse und Online-Spielmöglichkeiten.
(E?)(L?) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/2/5/1/12513/12513-h/12513-h.htm
"Backgammon" ist im "DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION" in der Kategorie "795" ("Other Games") untergebracht.
(E?)(L1) http://www.schwarzaufweiss.de/jordanien/amman3.htm
Amman: Moscheen Wasserpfeifen und Backgammon
(E6)(L1) http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Backgammon.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.bkgm.com/glossary.html
Backgammon Glossary
There are 743 entries in the glossary. (02.07.2006)
10-Percent Doubling Rule | 8-9-12 Doubling Rule | ABT | Accept a Double | Ace | Ace-Point | Ace-Point Game | Acey-Deucey | Acting Captain | Action Play | Action Position | Active Builder | Advanced Anchor | Advanced Level | Ahead in the Count | Ahead in the Race | Air Ball | Analog Clock | Anchor: | Annotated Match | Annotation | Anti-Joker | Army | Around the Corner | Asset | Attacking Game | Automatic Doubles | Automatics | Awkward Number | Back Game | Backgammon | Backgammon Board | Backgammon Server | Back Man | Baffle Box | Bakelite | Banana Split | Bankroll | Bar | Barabino | Bar-Point | Battle of Primes | Bear In | Bear Off | Bearoff | Bearoff Database | Bear On | Beaver | Beavers | Behind in the Count | Behind in the Race | Bertha | BIBA | Big Play | Binache | Blitz | Block | Blockade | Blocking Backgammon | Blocking Game | Blot | Blot-Hitting Contest | Blunder | Board | Board Layout | Board Setup | Bold Play | Bold-Safe Criteria | Book a Checker | Bot | Box | Boxcars | Boxes | Boys (The Boys) | Break | Break a Point | Break a Prime | Break Contact | Break One's Board | Broken Prime | Bronstein Clock | Builder | Build One's Board | Bump | Bump and Pass | Bump and Run | Bury a Checker | Busted Back Game | Button up | Bye | Calcutta Auction | California Rule | Candlesticks | Captain | Cash a Game | Cast | Catalin | Catchers | Centered Cube | Championship Division | Chase | Checker | Checker Play | Chequer | Chess Clock | Chouette | Cinque-Point | Claim a Game | Clean Play | Clear a Point | Clear from the Rear | Client Software | Clock | Clockwise | Close a Point | Closed Board | Closed Point | Close Out | Cluster Count | Cocked Dice | Cock Shot | Combination | Combination Shot | Combinations of the Dice | Comeback Shot | Come In | Comfort Station | Committed Position | Communicate | Compact Position | Confetti | Confidence Interval | Connected Position | Connectivity | Consolation Division | Consolation Flight | Consolidate | Consultation | Contact Position | Contain a Checker | Control a Point | Control the Cube | Convergence Value (of a Rollout) | Correspondence Games | Count | Counter | Counterclockwise | Counterplay | Count the Position | Coup Classique | Cover a Blot | CPW | Cramped | Crawford Game | Crawford Rule | Crew | Crossover | Crossover Count | Crunch | Crunched Position | Crunching Position | Cube | Cube Action | Cube Decision | Cubeful Equity | Cubeful Rollout | Cube Handling | Cube in the Middle | Cubeless Equity | Cubeless Probability of Winning | Cubeless Rollout | Cube Ownership | Cube Play | Cube Proxy | Cube Reference Position | Cup | Current Stake | Dance | Dead Checker | Dead Cube | Dead Man | Dead Number | Decline a Double | Deep | Deep Anchor | Deuce | Deuce-Point | Dice | Dice Combination | Dice Cup | Dice Manipulation | Dice Mechanic | Die | Digital Clock | Dilly Builder | Direct Hit | Direct Range | Direct Shot | Disengage | Disjointed Position | Diversification | Division | DMP | Double | Double Bump | Double Direct Shot | Double Ducks | Double Elimination | Double Game | Double Hit | Double Jeopardy | Double Match Point | Double Oneself Out | Doubler | Doubles | Double Shot | Doublets | Doubling Block | Doubling Cube | Doubling on the Come | Doubling Window | Draw | Drop | Dropper | Drop Point | Drop-Take | Ducks | Duplicate Backgammon | Duplicate Dice | Duplicate Tournament | Duplication | Dutch Backgammon | Dyscommuncation | Early Game | Early-Late Ratio | Edge of a Prime | Effective Pip Count | Efficient Double | Eject | Elimination Format | Elo Ratings System | EMG Equity | End Game | Enter | EPC | Equity | Equivalent-to-Money-Game Equity | Error Rate | Escape | Establish a Point | Eureka | Exposed Checker | Extras | Fan | Fast Board | Favorite | Fevga | FIBS | FIBS Rating | FIBS Rating Formula | Field Goal | Finals | Fischer Clock | Fish | Five-Point | Flexibility | Flight | Flunk | Fly Shot | Fold | Forced Play | Forward Anchor | Forward Game | Four-Point | Free Drop | Freeze a Builder | Freeze-Out Match | French Backgammon | Front a Prime | Frozen Cube | Full Prime | Gain a Tempo | Game Plan | Gamesmanship | Game Winning Chances | Gammon | Gammon Count | Gammon Cube | Gammon-Go | Gammonish | Gammon Price | Gammon Rate | Gammon-Save | Gammon Vigorish (Vig) | Gap | GG | Gin Position | Gioul | Girls (The Girls) | Give a Little Present to | Giving for Game | GNU Backgammon | Golden Point | Go Out | Greedy Bearoff | Greek Backgammon | GS | Guff (Guffy) | Gul Bara | GWC | Half a Roll | Half-Crossover Method | Handicap | Hara-Kiri Play | Head-to-Head | Heavy Point | Hedge | Hit | Hit and Cover | Hit and Pass | Hit and Run | Hit and Split | Hit Loose | Hit Off the Edge of a Prime | Holding Game | Holding Point | Holland Rule | Home | Home Board | Horizon | Hustler | Hyper-Backgammon | Illegal Move | Illegal Moves Rule | Illegal Play | Illegal Position | Inactive Builder | Indirect Hit | Indirect Shot | Initial Double | Initial Stake | Initiative | Inner Board | Inner Table | Intermediate Division | Intermediate Level | In the Air | Irish | Jackpot | Jacoby Paradox | Jacoby Rule | Jacquet | Janowski's Formula | Jellyfish | Jeopardy | Joint Standard Deviation | Joker | JSD | Junior | Kamikaze Play | Kauder Paradox | Key Point | Kibitz | Kibitzer | Kill a Checker | Kill a Number | Kleinman Doubling Formula | Knock Off | Knockout Tournament | Ladder | Last Chance Event | Last Roll Position | Latto Paradox | Layout | Leader | Legal Move | Legal Moves Rule | Legal Play | Liability | Liby's Rule | Lipped Cup | Live-Cube Rollout | Loaded Dice | Lock Up a Point | Long Backgammon | LongGammon | Loose Checker | Loose Hit | Loose Play | Lose One's Market | Lovers' Leap | Luck Factor | Luck Reduction | Magriel's Safe-Bold Criteria | Main Division | Main Flight | Major Split | Make a Point | Make One's Board | Man | Mandatory Beavers | Mandatory Double | Mandatory Extras | Mandatory Take | Man in the Box | Manny Wong Proposition | Market (for a Double) | Market Gainer | Market Loser | Market Losing Sequence | Match | Match Equity | Match Equity Table | Match Play | Match Winning Chances | Material | Mechanic | Mechanical Play | MET | Mexican Backgammon | Middle Game | Mid-Point | Minor Split | Misere | Mixed Roll | Mobility | Modern Backgammon | Money Management | Money Play | Monte Carlo | Motif | Moultezim | Move | Move Around the Corner | Move Down | Move In | Move Off | Move Out | Move Up | Mutual Holding Game | MWC | Nack Blitz | Nackgammon | Narde | Neil's Numbers | Neural Network (Neural Net) | NN | No-Brainer | No Dice | Noncommitted Position | Nonprogressive Consolation | Normal Game | Normalized Match Score | Notation | Novice Division | Novice Level | N-Point Board | N-Roll Position | Nullo Play | Odds | Off (the Board) | One-Checker Model | One-Point | One-Point Match | One-Sided Bearoff Database | Online Backgammon | On Roll | On the Bar | On Tilt | Open Division | Opening Game | Opening Roll | Open Point | Open Tournament | Optional Reroll Rule | OTB | Otter | Outer Board | Outer Table | Outfield | Outside Prime | Overage | Overplay | Over the Board | Own a Point | Owner of the Cube | Own the Cube | Parlay | Partial Prime | Partner for the Box | Pass | Pay Later | Pay Now | Pay-Now-Or-Pay-Later Decision | Perfecta | Pick and Pass | Pick Up | Piece | Pigeon | Pip | Pip Count | Plakoto | Play | Play Safe | Play Site | Ply | POH | Point | Point Game | Point on a Blot | Point on Head | Points per Game | Poof | Portes | Position | Positional Play | Position Card | Possession of the Doubling Cube | Post-Crawford | Post Mortem | PPG | PRAT | Precision Dice | Preclear | Pre-Crawford | Premature Burial | Premature Roll | Pressure | Prime | Primed | Prime Fighter | Prime-vs-Prime | Priming Game | Progressive Consolation | Prop | Proposition | Proxy | Puff | Pure Play | Pure Race | Quacks | Quadrant | Quads | Quasi-Random Dice | Quatre-Point | Quiet Play | Quiz Factor | Raccoon | Race | Race Equity | Rail | Railroad Tracks | Rake | Random Error (in a Rollout) | Random Seed | Rated Match | Rating | Rating Points | Ratings Inflation | Ratings Pool | Ratings System | Recirculate | Recube | Recube Vigorish (Vig) | Redouble | Reenter | Reference Position | Refuse a Double | Resign | Return Shot | Rim | Robustness | Roll | Roll a Prime | Roll Out | Rollout | Roll-Over | Roof | Root Number | Round | Round Robin Format | Run | Runner | Running Game | Russian Backgammon | Safe | Safe-Bold Criteria | Safe Play | Safety a Checker | Safety Up | Sandbag | Save a Number | Save Backgammon | Save Gammon | Secure a Point | Seed | Seeded Player | Semiactive Builder | Semifinals | Settlement | Settlement Limit | Setup | Shake | Shark | Shesh Besh | Shift Gears | Shift Points | Shot | Shut Out | Side Pool | Side Prime | Silver Point | Simple Direct Shot | Simulation | Single Elimination | Single Game | Single Shot | Six-Point | Slot | Slot and Split | Small Play | Snake | Snake Eyes | Snowie | Solid Prime | Spare Checker | Speed Board | Split | Squeeze | Stack | Staine's Rule | Stake | Stakes Play | Standard Deviation | Starting Position | Stay Back | Stay Off | Stay Out | Steam | Steamer | Stone | Straggler | Straight Race | Strategy | Stretched | Strip a Point | Stripped | Stroke | Strong Board | Structural Play | Suicide Play | Swedish Tables | Swing | Swiss-Cheese Formation | Swiss Format | Switch Points | Sydney | Sympathy Flight | Systematic Error | Table | Tables | Table Stakes | Tabula | Tactics | Tailgate | Take | Take/Drop Proposition | Take Off | Take Point | Take Up | Takhteh | Tapa | Tavla | Tavli | TD | TD-Gammon | Team | Technical Play | Tell | Temperature Map | Tempo | Tempo Move | Tempt | The T.P. | Thorp Count | Three-Point | Throw | Throw Off | Time | Time Delay | Timing | TMP | Too Good (to Double) | Too Many Points | Touch Down | Touch Move Rule | Tournament | Tournament Director | Tourne-Case | Trailer | Transposition | Trap Play | Trey-Point | Trial (of a Rollout) | Trice Triangle | Trictrac | Triple Game | Trois-Point | Truncated Rollout | Turn | Turner's Formula | Turn the Corner | Turn the Crank | Turn the Cube | Tutor Mode | Twist the Cube | Two-Point | Two-Sided Bearoff Database | Underdog | Underplay | Under the Gun | Unstack | Variance (of a Rollout) | Variance Reduction | Variant | Vidos | Vig | Vigorish | Volatility | Voluntary Double | Volunteer a Shot | Walk a Prime | Ward Count | Wash | Wastage | WBA | WBF | Weaver Coup | Whopper | Wipeout | Woolsey's Rule (on Doubling
bridge
(E?)(L?) http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5412135&BRD=2256&PAG=461&dept_id=455823&rfi=6
... The invention of bridge in the 19th century was possibly based on a popular card game in the Near East known as Russian whist. (The word "whist" itself, by the way, is an old British equivalent of "Shhh!," a natural name for a game requiring silence from its players.) Russian whist was also known as 'biritch' or 'britch', neither of which seems to be a Russian word. Once the British took up the game, 'britch' became 'bridge' through a process known as folk etymology, a fancy way of saying that people often substitute a word they know ('bridge') for one they don't ('britch'), even when the substitution makes no sense. ...
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connect the dots (W3)
"connect the dots" = "logisch denken", "eins und eins zusammenzählen"; geht zurück auf ein Kinder(mal)spiel, bei dem es darum geht Punkte miteinander zu einem Gesamtbild zu verbinden.
(Ich kann mich erinnern, dass es solche Bilder - zumindest - in meiner Kindheit auch in deutschen Zeitschriften gab.)
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Da Vinci-Experiment - The Da Vinci-Experiment (W3)
(E6)(L?) http://www.paradoxing.com/davinci/index.php4
Die Bezeichnung dieses Experiments geht auf jeden Fall auf den italienischen Universalkünstler (Architekt, Bildhauer, Ingenieur, Kunsttheoretiker, Maler, Naturforscher) Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) zurück.
Bleibt jedoch die Frage, wieso man ihn mit diesem Experiment in Verbindung bringt. Meines Wissens hat Da Vinci auch mit Spiegelungen oder sogar damit experimentiert mit Hilfe von Spiegeln zu malen. Aber leider kann ich dazu nichts mehr finden.
Jedenfalls ist es gar nicht so einfach einen Stern zu malen, wenn oben/unten und links/rechts vertauscht sind. Da kann man nur hoffen, dass der Zahnarzt damit keine Probleme hat.
Beim Spielen, nicht vergessen, die linke Maus-Taste gedrückt zu halten, sonst ist das Spiel sofort mit 200 Fehlerpunkten zu Ende.
(E?)(L?) http://www.imss.fi.it/news/mostra/6/
Informationen zu den Erfindungen Leonardos beim Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florenz
(E?)(L?) http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/auth/vinci/
Viele Gemälde Leonardo da Vincis sind im WebMuseum versammelt.
Derivation - (Offline-)Etymologie-Spiel
(E?)(L?) http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3806725128/etymologety0f-21
(E?)(L?) http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005BTB8/etymologety0f-21
"Derivation" ist ein Spiel für 4 bis 10 Spieler.
Discover the game that's a cut above the pick of the litter, a regular riot! Try to be the first player to spell the word Derivation to win with this new word and phrase game that combines a little creativity, knowledge, bluffing, acting, drawing, talking, strategy and luck into wacky and wonderful fun.
Leider ist das Spiel immer noch nicht bei Amazon in Deutschland erhältlich. Auch eine andere Quelle habe ich bisher nicht gefunden. Aber vielleicht hilft eine grössere Nachfrage, dieses Spiel auch in Deutschland zu erhalten.
Am 12.07.2003 habe ich folgende Anfrage an Amazon gestellt:
Betreff:
Verbesserungen und Anregungen
Kommentar:
hallo Amazon-Team, Ich habe über englische Newsletter von dem Spiel "Derivation" erfahren. Leider kann ich dieses Spiel auf Ihren deutschen Seiten nicht finden. Auf Ihren englischen Seiten wird das Spiel angeboten (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005BTB8/qid=1058015232/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-2307384-5975801?v=glance&s=toys&n=507846).
1) Wieso bieten Sie dieses Spiel in Deutschland nicht an? Immerhin erhält man ja auch englische Bücher!)
2) Wie kann ich dennoch an dieses Spiel kommen. Ich würde es auch gerne in meinem nächsten Newsletter empfehlen können.
3) Weiterhin ver,isse ich generell die Möglichkeit französischsprachige Werke bei Amazon zu bestellen. (Mittlerweile gibt es - glaube ich - ein paar ausgewählte Titel, aber ich möchte eben die Bücher bestellen können, die mich interessieren.)
Ich würde mich freuen, wenn Sie mir auf meine Fragen positive Antworten geben könnten.
mit freundlichem Gruss
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*gam, gamble, game, gammel (W3)
(E1)(L1) http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/pdf/pgmc_torp/pgmc_torp.pdf
Der Wortstamm "*gam" kommt in vielen germanischen Sprachen in Bezeichnungen für "Spiel" und "Spaß" vor.
"gamana" n. "Freude", "Lustigkeit", "Spiel". an. "gaman" n. "Freude", "Lustigkeit", "Wollust"; as. "gaman", ags. "gamen" n. "Freude", "Vergnügen", "Spaß", "Spiel", engl. "gammon" und "game", afries. "game", "gome" f. "Freude"; ahd. "gaman" n., mhd. "gamen" n. m. f. "Spiel", "Spaß", "Lust". Nicht aus "ga-man" (g. "gaman" n.) sondern zur germ. Wz. "gem". Vgl. die Nebenform ä. dän. "gammel"; engl. to "gamble" (ags. "gamenian"); mhd. "gamel" n. "Lust", "Spaß"; und norw. mundartl. "gamast" = "sich vergnügen", "scherzen", "gantast" (aus "gam-t-") "scherzen", an. "gems" m. n. "mutwilliges Betragen", "gumsa" = "spotten".
gammon, game, Gammon (W3)
(E2)(L1) http://www.bartleby.com/61/s109.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.bartleby.com/61/26/G0032600.html
"Gammon" = A victory in backgammon reached before the loser has succeeded in removing a single piece.
Probably from Middle English "gamen", "gammen", "game", from Old English "gamen".
(E?)(L?) http://www.bartleby.com/61/27/G0032700.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.bartleby.com/61/28/G0032800.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.bartleby.com/61/29/G0032900.html
(E1)(L1) http://www.etymonline.com/
(E?)(L?) http://www.werbesongliste.de/
(E?)(L?) http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/etc/aa_texts.html
(E?)(L?) http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/pdf/pgmc_torp/pgmc_torp.pdf
Im "Wörterbuch Indogermanische Sprachen" findet man:
"gamana" n. "Freude", "Lustigkeit", "Spiel". an. "gaman" n. "Freude", "Lustigkeit", "Wollust"; as. "gaman", ags. "gamen" n. "Freude", "Vergnügen", "Spaß", "Spiel",
engl. "gammon" (= "Humbug", "Schwindel", "Quatsch") und
"game", afries. "game", "gome" f. "Freude"; ahd. "gaman" n., mhd. "gamen" n. m. f. "Spiel", "Spaß", "Lust".
Nicht aus "ga-man" (g. "gaman") sondern zur germ. Wz. "gem".
Vgl. die Nebenform ä. dän. "gammel"; engl. to "gamble" (ags. "gamenian"); mhd. "gamel" n. "Lust", "Spaß"; und norw. mundartl. "gamast" = "sich vergnügen", "scherzen", "gantast" (aus "gam-t-") "scherzen", an. "gems" m. n. "mutwilliges Betragen", "gumsa" = "spotten".
(E?)(L?) http://www.konsumterror.de/slogans.shtml
(E?)(L?) http://www.gammon.de/
Der Produktname "Gammon" ("Mit diesem Duft kann Dir alles passieren." - Kosmetik - 1999) scheint bewußt auf die unbewußte Assoziation "gammon" = "game" anzuspielen.
(E?)(L?) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/game
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Hattrick (W3)
Der "Hut-Trick" bestand darin, beim Kricket-Spiel drei Treffer zu erzielen, wofür es dann einen Hut gab.
hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (W3)
(E1)(L1) http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0494
(E?)(L?) http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0597
Das engl. "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian" bedeutet "ein sehr langes Wort betreffend".
Es enthält - soweit ich das nachvollziehen kann - die Betandteile lat. "hippopotamus" = "Flußpferd", "monstrosus" = "mönströs", "qui" = "welcher" und "pedalis" = "einen Fuß lang".
Was sich der Wortschöpfer jedoch genau dabei gedacht hat und wie man es wörtlich übersetzen kann bleibt der Phantasie überlassen.
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jeff560 - Words containing a sequence of letters repeated
(E?)(L1) http://jeff560.tripod.com/words2.html
Some words containing a sequence of letters repeated are: "UNUNUNIUM" (provisional name for Element 111), the name "LEKKERKERKER", "Mohottiwatte", "GUNANANA" (a Buddhist High Priest in the late 1800s), and "ZENZIZENZIZENZIC" (explained elsewhere on this page) [Pierre Abbat, Dan Tilque, Byron Davidson, James E. F. Landau, Juozas Rimas].
JJ (W3)
JJ kommt in folgenden englischen Wörtern vor:
- "AD-DAJJAL" (ein Begriff der islamischen Eschatologie, der Lehre vom Endschicksal des einzelnen Menschen und der Welt
- "AVIJJA" (Unkenntnis der "Vier edlen Wahrheiten" des Buddhismus)
- "CRIGLER-NAJJAR SYNDROME"
- "HAJJ" (die muslimische Pilgerreise)
- "HAJJAJ" (ein arabischer Gouverneur in Indien)
- "HAJJI
- "KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ" (an Inuit village in Quebec)
- "KUUJJUAQ" (kanadische Stadt)
- "KUUJJUARAPIK" (indianischer Name des kanadischen Ortes "Great Whale River", Quebec)
- "MAJJHIMA", "PUTHUJJANA", "PABBAJJA" (buddhistischen Begriffen)
- "MURAJJIH" (islamischer Begriff)
- "TAHAJJUD" (islamischer Prediger)
- "UJJAIN" (eine der heiligen Städten Indiens)
- "UJJAYI" (auch "ujaya", "ujaya breathing" oder "ujjayi breathing", einer "pranayama" genannten Form von Körperübungen (Asanas) in Verbindung mit Atemübungen)
- "ZU'L-HIJJAH" oder "DHU'L-HIJJAH" (dem 12. Monat des muslimischen Kalenders)
(E?)(L1) http://jeff560.tripod.com/words7.html
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mootgame - Etymology and Word Origins Game
(E1)(L1) http://www.mootgame.com/
(E1)(L1) http://www.mootgame.com/ansarchive/l111.html
as well as semantics, grammar, and usage.
The critically-acclaimed board game MooT consists of tough questions about the nuances of the English language.
Die Site hat vor allem den Zweck, eine Spiel zur Etymologie zu vertreiben. Die Site ist dennoch einen Besuch wert: Die Werbung für das "Offline-"Spiel ist klar und seriös und nicht zu aufdringlich. Darüber hinaus gibt es viele interessante Artikel zu entdecken und einen Newsletter mit einem etymologischen Worträtsel. Das Ergebnis erhält man über einen Link im Newsletter.
Ein Beispiel vom 06.8.2004:
What city caused the coining of a word meaning "a person devoted to sensuous luxury"?
Die Antwort gibt es unter dem zweiten Link.
(E?)(L?) http://www.mootgame.com/mootlist_qpage.html
Am 09.04.2007 warn folgende beiträge aufgelistet:
- How many baskets are there in a Dodekathronon?
- According to Historian Bernard Lewis in his essay The Revolt of Islam: "Followers of many faiths have at one time or another invoked religion in the practice of murder, both retail and wholesale. Two words deriving from such movements in Eastern religions have even entered the English language...." Assassin is one of them. What is the other?
- In Latin amare means "to love." What given name means "she who is worthy of love" in Latin?
- Idiom-wise, what substance connotes "permanent and indestructible humanity"?
- Etymology-wise, what part of a circle is a beam of light?
- What literary technique's name derives from a Greek word that means "feigned ignorance"?
- Its name was coined by translating the French phrase coup de soleil. What condition is it?
- It derives from a Late Latin phrase that means "greatest premise" and it denotes "a general truth expressed in one sentence." What word is it?
- The Heptanesos has seven of them. What are they?
- What hyphenated word meaning "weakly sentimental" was coined to describe the poetry of Ambrose Philips?
- Some claim that it derives from an American custom of indicating who the card dealer is by stabbing a buckhorn knife into the table in front of him. What cliché is it?
- What Odyssean sea nymph's name means "hidden" in Greek?
- What diagnostic method's name derives from a word that means "life sight" in Greek?
- The Romans nicknamed it Arabia Felix, fortunate Arabia. Nowadays, it's called Yemen. What is it called in the King James Bible?
- Etymology-wise, what poison is a fair lady?
- It derives from a Latin word meaning "run" and it denotes the Barbary-Coast Pirates who terrorized European shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries. What word is it?
- In the 14th century the name denoted "the stupid man personified." By the 19th century, the given and surnames had been fused into an noun denoting any type of stupidity. What word is it?
- Which relative's honorific derives from a Latin word meaning "little grandfather"?
- There are just two extant English words that use the Middle English suffix -head. What are they?
- According to the Atlantic Monthly, which political organization's name means "conquest" in Arabic when read in one direction and "death" when read in the other?
- According to the Washington Post, the US's first political mass-media stunt was during the Whig campaign for William Henry Harrison in 1840. During it: "They constructed a 10-foot-high ball of twine, wood and tin, covered it with Whig political slogans, and rolled it first from Cleveland to Columbus and then from town to town across the country." What for four-word expression resulted from this?
- Which economist coined the term conventional wisdom?
- According to Paul Theroux in his book Riding the Iron Rooster, what city's name means red hero in Mongolian?
- What politico-religious sect's name derives from the name of its founder Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Darazi?
- According to Orientalist Historian Bernard Lewis, there is no word in Arabic for this country's name; what country is it?
- When it entered English it meant "afterwards born"; since then it has come to mean "undersized"; what word is it?
- The word caryatids is to women as what word is to men?
- Just two English words both begin and end with the letters UND; what are they?
- What word was coined to describe flautists who held their instruments pretentiously high while performing?
- What two words were combined to coin the radio term WILCO - as in "Roger, wilco, over and out"?
- The Romans called them "thorn hogs"; what do we call them?
- What country's nickname means "land of winter" in Latin?
- According to the Wikipedia, it was coined by Andy Nimmo in December 1960 for a talk on the Everett many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics. It originally denoted: "an apparent universe, a multiplicity of which, go to make up the whole universe." What word is it?
- According to Thomas Pynchon, it is used for ideological enforcement and it denotes "a set of techniques said to be based on the work of IP Pavlov, who had once trained dogs to salivate on cue"; what Cold War term is it?
- It turns out that when you play the Star Wars theme in reverse, it becomes the song Born Free. Is there, thus, an inverse relationship between the two songs?
- What company's name denotes "1 followed by 100 zeros"?
- Richard Dawkins, professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, defines it as: "that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested, or consistently fail tests." What type of medicine is it?
- What car-type's name means "mercies" in Spanish?
- The word Oriental is to eastern and the word occidental is to western as what two words are to northern and southern?
- What literary character's name means son of the Dragon in Romanian?
- According to Felipe Fernandez in his book Near a thousand tables: A history of food, its inventor gave it this name because its white sheen reminded him of the pearls known as marguerites; what is it?
- Here's a MooT crossword-puzzle question: what might a Portuguese call "acts of faith performed in the city of Holy Faith"? (16 letters)
- What substance's name means light bringing in Greek?
- It got its name because its flavour resembles a combination of clove, cinnamon, and nutmeg; what spice is it?
- In Greek mythology, Apollo often assumed the form of a dolphin; what Greek place-name reflects this?
- What snake's name means "snake" in Portuguese?
- What information source's name means "the peninsula" in Arabic?
- What seafaring people did the ancient Greeks call the "purple people"?
- It was derived from the name of a Greek maiden who beat Athena in a weaving contest; what entomological term is it?
- Which psychiatrist added the words introvert and extrovert to our daily discourse?
- According to the New Yorker Magazine , its name was derived from a phrase that means "word war" in Croatian; what game's name is it?
- Their name literally means "thunder" in Greek; which writers are they?
- According to Mark Simpson, who coined the term in 1994, it denotes: "a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are." What term is it?
- It derives from the 1973 armed robbery of the Sveriges Kreditbank in Sweden during which four bank employees were held hostage in a vault for more than five days; what psychology term is it?
- What two words were combined to coin the religious name Shaker?
- In Spanish it denotes both "people" and the places where people live; what word is it?
- In Greek derma means "skin"; what art form's name means "skin arrangement" in Greek?
- According to Fowler, it actually denotes a "group of repressed emotional ideas responsible for an abnormal mental condition," but it has evolved into a synonym for "a bee in one's bonnet"; what word is it?
- Imitative of a sound used by Australian aboriginals, it is used to attract attention from a distance; what word is it?
- The punch line of the wartime joke is: Send 3 and 4 pence, we are going to a dance; what was the original message?
- What country celebrates Zanzibar Revolution Day?
- In Latin ala means "wing"; what part of the human body does its diminutive label?
- What nut got its name because the base of the shell resembles a face?
- What sport captivates toxophilites?
- What word was altered to coin the word heist?
- What support structure's name was coined by combining the words gallon and tree?
- The word burger is to hamburger as the word cello is to what?
- What synonym for names names a mountain chain?
- What card game's name means "basket" in Spanish?
- In Old English its name means "spear leek"; what bulb-type is it?
- Its previous name was a Portuguese word meaning "beautiful"; what island is it?
- According to the book Using Type Right, what two letters were concatenated to create the ampersand?
- What narcotic got its name because it improved self-esteem?
- There are two singing style's names that mean "in the church style" in Italian; a cappella is one, what is the other?
- Yiddish-wise, the word schmooze is to talk as what word is to rendered fat?
- It derives from an alternative name for St. Sebastian, a subterranean cemetery near Rome; what three-syllable word is it?
- What do you call someone who composes encomiums?
- What politico-religious sect's name derives from the name of its founder Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Darazi?
- The ancient Greeks called this disease phthisis; what do modern English speakers call it?
- What words were combined to coin the proprietary term Brylcreem?
- Two abbreviations satisfy the dictum: lowercase a weight, uppercase a state; TN. is one, what is the other?
- From which language did English derive the word futon: Japanese or Hindi?
- In Middle Dutch it denotes "a wooden vessel"; when it entered English, it came to denote "the set of articles needed for a specific purpose"; what 3-letter word is it?
- It derives from the Swahili word for "marsh"; what city-name is it?
- What one-syllable word best translates the Greek word peri, as in perigee?
- What word can be abbreviated by either oct. or 8vo?
- What word describes anything having to do with Oxford?
- What is the adjectival form of the word phylum?
- Its name means "place where the waters narrow" in Algonquian; what Canadian place-name is it?
- In Hebrew it means "my master"; what word is it?
- What three-syllable phrase was shortened to coin the word riff-raff?
- The Arabs called this number sifr; what did the Europeans call it?
- What word was modified to coin the sport's term scrimmage?
- Which drink's name literally means "pressed out" in Italian?
- According to the Concise Oxford, which two animals snicker?
- Spell the letter W as a word?
- What entertainer-type's name means "summit walker" in Greek?
- The French call a "little tuft of hair"; what do the English call it?
- In Arabic the phrase al kubba means "the vault"; what English architectural term resulted?
- In Latin it means "I believe"; in English it denotes a statement of belief; what word is it?
- Its name derives from a Sanskrit word that means "horn body" - a reference to its antler shape; what spice is it?
- Which two-syllable word best translates the Latin word pugil?
- What German double-goer labels your phantom twin?
- Which word derives from an Arabic word meaning "decide a point of law": imam, ayatolla, or mufti?
- What affliction's name means "shut-eye" in Greek?
- According to Wired Magazine, it was coined to denote "a rebuttal written in anticipation of a need to rebut"; what three-syllable neologism is it?
- What word was combined with frolicking to coin the word rollicking?
- What did Anglicized Vikings call the December solstice festival?
- What flower was named for Paion, the physician of the Greek gods?
- In 1983, Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation and developed a licensing program that he described as the mirror-image of copyright; what did he call it?
- George Santayana defined it as: "a person who redoubles his effort after he has forgotten his goals"; what word is it?
- Which did Thomas Aquinas define as: "sadness at the good of others in so far as they don't deserve it": jealousy or indignation?
- What American city's name means "the meadows" in Spanish?
- What do inhabitants of the Orkneys call themselves?
- In the phrase Jack Spratt's fat the apostrophe replaces two letters; what are they?
- The Anglo-Saxons called this ordinal other; what did the Anglo-Normans call it?
- What are the two singular forms of the plural insignia?
- The Jewish name Yitzhak means "he laughs"; what is the English version of this name?
- What Indonesian island's name means "barley" in Sanskrit?
- In Hausa it means "evil spirit" whereas in English it denotes: "An object used as a fetish, a charm, or an amulet in West Africa."; what two syllable word is it?
- What sub-atomic particle was once a Greek coin?
- Its name derives from the Arabic mukayyar, choice; what choice fabric is it?
- Heidi Fleiss defines it as "acting as a go-between in a sexual intrigue"; what three-syllable word is it?
- Which would you expect to find in a charnel house: prostitutes or corpses?
- Which do Americans call a trillion: 1,000,000,000 or 1,000,000,000,000?
- Which is scabrous: the indecent or the illegitimate?
- According to rapper Afrika Bambaataa, which is an aspect of the other: rap or hip-hop?
- Was the word fisher meaning fisherman coined in the 20th century?
- Etymology-wise, which is monstrous: a terabyte or a gigabyte?
- Which abbreviation means "and the following pages": et al. or et seq.?
- Which word means "crumb" in Latin: mica or talc ?
- Which point in the moon's orbit is farthest from earth: the apogee or the perigee?
- Which has greater celestial status: the cherub or the seraph?
- Which is resplendent: an elaborate meal or the sun?
- What element was named for the founder of Thebes?
- It derives from the word bouillir, to boil, and it denotes beef cured or pickled in brine; what phrase is it?
- What unit of measure's name means "one hundred steps" in Latin?
- Which 90's American sitcom character's name means: "a dealer in provisions of a specific kind"?
- In classical mythology, it denoted where the blessed dead went after death; now it's an adjective that denotes that which is blissful; what word is it?
- It was coined by translating a German word meaning "in feeling"; in English it denotes "the ability to let in the feelings of others"; what word is it?
- Which US politician coined the name United Nations?
- The oldest reference to them is found in the writings of Julius Caesar who used it to designate a group of tribes in north-eastern Gaul; what two-syllable name is it?
- The word Norway derives from the Old Norse Norvegr, north way; what country did the Norweigians call South way: Sweden, Germany, or Finland?
- It derives from the Yiddish gletshn, to slip, and has come to label any problem that causes a system to malfunction; what word is it?
- In Homer's Odyssey, Hermes gives Odysseus a piece of the molu plant to be used to make Circe's potions harmless; what exclamatory phrase derived from this?
- The phrase derives from the name of a character in John Arbuthnot's satire The Law Is a Bottomless Pit; what national personification is it?
- In Hausa (a language of Northern Nigeria) it means "evil spirit" whereas in English it denotes: "An object used as a fetish, a charm, or an amulet in West Africa."; what two syllable word is it?
- In Middle Dutch it denotes "a wooden vessel"; when it entered English, it came to denote "the set of articles needed for a specific purpose"; what three-letter word is it?
- In addition to solving the problem of converting a 3-dimensional globe into a 2-dimensional map, he also coined the cartographic term atlas; who is he?
- The Greeks called them nautilos; who or what are they?
- It was coined in 1754 by the English novelist Horace Walpole. He derived it from the title of a fable whose heroes, Walpole explained, "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of"; what word is it?
- It was coined by modifying the place name Conestoga; what product nickname is it?
- Derived from the Latin word for cattle, it now describes the unusual in English; what word is it?
- According to the New York Times, which singer's name means "sparrow" in French slang?
- It derives from a Latin word that means "people" and denotes someone who "represents the people"; what word is it?
- Which is greater: the number of sounds in the English language or the number of letters in the alphabet?
- Its name was coined by combining the words wiggle and poll; what creature is it?
- They got their name because of a rumour that the steel plates used in their construction were taken from petrol containers; what weapon is it?
- It derives from the Middle Flemish jammeren, to be sorrowful, and it has come to denote peevish or whiny complaining; what transitive verb is it?
- Which are fatuous: the purposeless or the insignificant?
- According to Witold Rybczynski, which Spanish town is more likely to be fortified: the pueblo or the presidio?
- Which decrees: the ordinance or the ordnance?
- Is it possible to meliorate a thing without ameliorating it?
- Is it possible for a thing to be a percept and not be a precept?
- Which makes people slight you: your unimportance or your unattractiveness?
- Which is also called Draughts: Checkers or Backgammon?
- Which word entered English first: jell or jelly ?
- Which word is Euro-centric: incarnadine or indigo ?
- According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, it originally meant "to have sex on horseback"; what two-word phrase is it?
- The word garden is to gardener as the word rosarium is to what?
- What is the adjectival form of the word ventriloquist?
- Its two-word name was coined from the names A.T. Kliegl and J.H. Kliegl; what device is it?
- Etymology-wise, which word best translates the word coolie: day-labourer or person-power vehicle?
- What words were combined to coin the trade name Swatch?
- It was coined by abbreviating the phrase Association Football; what game name is it?
- According to www.wordorigins.org it was coined as an acronym for the phrase south of Houston Street; what place name is it?
- It derives from a Latin verb meaning to weave and it denotes that which is written; what word is it?
- In Greek it means "leader" and it was originally used to describe the relationship of Athens to the other Greek city-states that joined it in an alliance against the Persian Empire; what word is it?
- What elevated antonyms did Van Wyck Brooks coin to distinguish those interested in the life of the mind from those not?
- In Hebrew it means "candlestick"; what word is it?
- Its name derives from a Hebrew word that means "to weigh"; what monetary unit is it?
- What space-station's name means "peace" in Russian?
- Recently, in my spare time, I discovered the world's smallest particle. I named it the goog because it weighs exactly one billion to the minus googol grams. Is the goog infinitesimally small?
- Which is the Calamity Jane: the Jane who causes the calamity or the Jane who predicts it?
- Which word entered English first: ping or pong ?
- Which is at the top of the pillar: the capital or the capitol?
- Which makes the Pied Piper pied: his appearance or his temperament?
- In 1507 a cartographer published a map and a new feminine proper noun was born. If he had chosen the masculine form, what would the noun have been?
- According to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, what animal's name means all beasts in Greek?
- What Latin neither labels neithers?
- Etymology-wise, the name Panthalassa is to sea as what name is to earth ?
- In Greek nomos means "law"; what do you call those who believe they are not constrained by the prevailing moral law?
- H. L. Mencken defined it as: "an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable"; what word is it?
- To give additional emphasis, authors sometimes end interrogatory exclamations with ?! ; what is this punctuation mark called?
- The primordial Greek loan word used to label them was tribades which means "those who rub each other"; what are they more commonly called nowadays?
- According to Wired magazine : "When they write the account of the 2004 campaign, it will include at least one word that has never appeared in any presidential history"; what word is it?
- What diplomatic term originally denoted "the first flyleaf glued onto a manuscript"?
- If one photo is worth a trillion hits, is one photo worth a petahit?
- According to The New Strong's Complete Dictionary of Bible Words , it was derived from the Hebrew name Yahowchanan ; which English given name is it?
- Initially, it denoted a weak point of a sword blade; now it denotes a weak point of character; what word is it?
- According to Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors by Robert Claiborne, an adjective was coined because a plant found on an island caused facial convulsions that resembled scornfully mocking laughter; what was the adjective and what was the island?
- What archaic five-letter suffix denotes "poor quality imitation"?
- Which defunct Jewish sect's name derives from an Aramaic word that means "the separated ones"?
- Which threads are stretched lengthwise in the loom: the warp or the weft?
- According to the BBC, when was the word sex first used to mean "sexual intercourse" — as in "have sex with someone": 1929 or 1729?
- The science of bodies in motion is called dynamics; what is the science of bodies at rest called?
- According to an OED editor-at-large, it derives from an African-American pronunciation of a disparaging term for a Hungarian laborers; what epithet is it?
- What country's name means "he that fights with with God"?
- According to the OED, Samuel Johnson mistranslated its Latin ancestor to mean "mutually destructive" when in fact it means "very deadly or destructive" - but Johnson's version has become the current meaning; what word is it?
- What parlour game's name derives from a word meaning "conversation" in Modern Provencal?
- What game's name means "grope frantically" in English?
- In Greek doxa means "praise"; what do you call a praising of God that terminates a prayer?
- What city caused the coining of a word meaning "a person devoted to sensuous luxury"?
- What do Los Angeles real estate agents call abdominoplasty ?
- According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, which does the fledgling hang-glider lack: experience or competence?
- What type of newspaper was named for a small Venetian coin?
- It means "acknowledgement" in 10code; what response is it?
- It describes hen behaviour and was coined by translating the German word hackliste; it eventually came to denote "human status hierarchy"; what phrase is it?
- His name has come to denote a long, adventurous journey; who is he?
- Originally, it denoted a written petition in which the signatures are arranged in a circle so that you can't tell who signed first; now it denotes a type of competition; what hyphenated word is it?
- In Ireland, the 1366 Statute of Kilkenny limited English rule to Dublin and a surrounding layer of settlement; what phrase came to denote the areas of Ireland outside this layer?
- According to Sebastian Junger in The Perfect Storm, in the United States it is defined as: "more that three miles from shore"; what phrase is it?
- What life-saver's name means "against life" in Greek?
- What French word was modified to coin the golfing term caddy?
- Which vegetable's name means "little gourds" in Italian?
- Its name derives from the Italian word for "nephew"; what species of unfairness is it?
- According to David Shenk in the book Data Smog, two neologisms can be defined as: "advertisements disguised to look like journalism"; what are they?
- What famous battle's name means "gates of heat" in Greek?
- What word was shortened to coin the word gin - as in cotton gin?
- The word cigar is to cigarillo as the word fiber is to what?
- Originally, a Chinese Communist motto meaning "work together," during WWII it became an American armed-forces slogan meaning "zealous"; what phrase is it?
- During a 1950 radio broadcast, Fred Hoyle coined the term while using it derogatorily, but it was so compelling that it stuck; what cosmological catch-phrase is it?
- What dog command derives from a French word meaning "advance"?
- According to Sports Illustrated Magazine, its 1919 defeat of Man O'War caused its name to become a common sports term; what was the horse's two-syllable name?
- When it was patented, it was called a display-system x-y position indicator; what is this ubiquitous device called now?
- Etymology-wise, which word doesn't belong to this set: Kodak, Nylon, or Vaseline ?
- The London Times claims it derived from their way of complaining as they trudged along jungle trails; what American military sobriquet is it?
- The name Dick is to Richard as the name Izzy is to what?
- What does the K in K-Mart stand for?
- What words were combined to coin the company name Nabisco?
- What California town got its name because it has tall trees?
- In 1342, the King of England defined it as: "the length of three barley-corn kernels"; what word is it?
- How many teaspoons are there in a tablespoon?
- What activity led to the coining of the phrase to pull one's weight?
- Which surname was sometimes adopted by butchers: Chandler, Kellogg, or Parker ?
- According to Sebastian Junger, it originally denoted: "estimating your position based on a compass heading, forward speed, and wind condition - when observation is impossible"; but it has evolved into a figure of speech; what phrase is it?
- According to Witold Ryzbinski, what Canadian city's name means "the meeting place" in an aboriginal language?
- What author's surname was the Old-English name for the devil?
- What do Norwegians call a sloping track?
- Originally, it denoted the lowest note in the medieval sequence of hexachords; now it labels all ranges; what word is it?
- What do logophobics fear?
- To condemn it, you would call this behaviour officious; what sesqipedalian adjective would you use to praise it?
- The word went was once the past-tense of two one-syllable verbs; go was one; what was the other?
- It's another way of saying "10 to the 12th"; what prefix is it?
- Literally, it means "at one" and it denotes the act of restoring one's oneness; what word is it?
- It denotes the syndrome caused by the excessive drinking of absinthe; what word is it?
- According to historian John Romer, its name derives from an Old Byzantine phrase that means "the city"; what city is it?
- How many abbreviations does the word versus have?
- In French the word briser means "break"; what did the French call the fragments that had broken off?
- Which past participle describes the steady and sober?
- In the early days of printing often-used illustrations were set in metal; what two literary terms resulted?
- According to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, it was perhaps coined as a corruption of the name Connaught, "a name originally applied by the French Canadians to Irish Immigrants"; what ethnic label is it?
- In Greek hodos means "way"; what instrument measures the length of your way?
- In Italian it means "little child"; in English it denotes "childlike thinker"; what word is it?
- Derived from a French word meaning "to cut," it denotes a ticket that is cut off; what word is it?
- In Greek its name means "a line measuring through"; what mathematics term is it?
- It denotes a pedantic, exhaustive, point-by-point refutation of someone's political position and it was named for a British news-correspondent who employs it; what one-syllable neologistic eponym is it?
- Will you find the word webster in the Concise Oxford Dictionary?
- In Latin fans means "speaking"; the Romans called them "those who cannot speak"; what do we call them?
- In medieval Latin it meant "not of the city proper"; in French it means "suburb"; what word is it?
- In Latin it originally meant "sand," then it came to mean "sand-strewn place of combat"; what word is it?
- The Romans called it sagitta; what do English speakers call it?
- Which Macedonian is invective's eponym?
- Whence blows the northerly: north or south?
- According to Fowler's Modern English Usage, sarcasm is to faults as what intellectual stance is to morals?
- According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, what musical genre was named for the color of tobacco leaves?
- More and more people have begun calling this symbol the octothorpe; what is its more common name?
- Name three of the four most frequently occurring words in English writing?
- It was coined in the 16th century when the consonants Y, H, and W were mistakenly mixed with the vowels of the word Adonai; what proper noun is it?
- It derives from a Greek word meaning "return home" and it denotes "sentimental yearning"; what word is it?
- In addition to coining the cartographic term atlas, he solved the riddle of converting a 3-dimensional globe into a 2-dimensional map; who is he?
- When the editor of the Manchester Guardian first heard the neologism in 1928, he exclaimed: "The word is half Greek and half Latin - no good will come of it"; what communication device's name was it?
- What force's name means "heavy" in Latin?
- The word Louisianan is to noun as what word is to adjective?
- There are two words that mean "macadam that has been bound with tar"; what are they?
- In Latin it means "cradle"; in English it denotes a book printed before 1501; what word is it?
- What magician's word was contracted to coin the word hoax?
- What month's name derives from a word that means "purgations" in Latin?
- Trying to add some precision to its meaning, Mathematician J.E. Littlewood defined it as "an event that has special significance when it occurs, but occurs with a probability of one in a million."; what word is it?
- The word somnambulism is to walk as what word is to talk?
- The word husband is to wife as the word sultan is to what?
- Its name derives from a bridge-like game known as tarocchi; what is it?
- It derives from the Latin frangere, to break, and it labels a set of patterns that cannot be represented by classical geometry; what word is it?
- What word was contracted to coin the goody in the phrase Goody Two-Shoes
- According to www.wordorigins.org, originally it labeled any small thing, but it eventually came to denote 1/8th of a peso. What word is it?
- How many millenniums are there in a chiliad?
- According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, what are the plurals of the word it?
- What beverage was named for Edward Vernon, the English admiral who served his crew diluted rum?
- Name the individual who coined the acronyms URL, HTML, HTTP, and WWW.
- Its most accurate definition is: "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of cesium-133 in the ground state"; what unit of time is it?
- In English there are three prefixes that mean "below"; one of them is "sub"; what are the other two?
- What car-type's name means "I roll" in Latin?
- What adverb can mean both "soon" and "now"?
- The British abbreviation for penny is d - as in 10d; what word does the d abbreviate?
- Which homonyms build and destroy?
- According to the Harper's English Grammar, there are four demonstrative pronouns in the English language: this, that, these, and those; however, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, there are five - what is the fifth one?
- According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, its name probably derives from the Sanskrit word for the number five; what type of drink is it?
- When the editor of the Manchester Guardian first heard the neologism in 1928, he exclaimed: "The word is half Greek and half Latin - no good will come of it"; what device-name is it?
- It was derived from the name of a Greek maiden who beat Athena in a weaving contest; what taxonomic term is it?
- According to author Mark Kurlansky ( Concise Oxford Dictionary: A biography of a fish that changed the world ), what substance etymologically binds the words soldier and salad?
- According to Rabbi Ken Spiro's Crash Course on Jewish History, this Crusader cry was originally derived as an acronym of a Latin phrase meaning Jerusalem Has Fallen; what 3-letter cheer is it?
- To suss something out is to investigate it; what word was modified to coin the word suss ?
- It was coined by combining the French words for hook and velvet; what synthetic material is it?
- According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, what name was modified to coin the word jingo?
- It once denoted a "sequence of six cards," but now it labels a type of discrimination; what word is it?
- Derived from the Italian word for leg, it originally denoted "the act of tripping someone up while wrestling"; now it often refers to the act of tripping someone up while playing chess; what word is it?
- The word cinephile is to cinema as what word is to ballet?
- According to History of God by Karen Armstrong, what Middle-Eastern city's name means "springtime hill" in Hebrew?
- Etymology-wise, the word orthodoxy is to opinion as what word is to action?
- According to William Safire, what is the plural of the phrase Poet Laureate?
- What word was contracted to coin the word bate, as in bated breath?
- According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, its title could have been: The Inability to Cope with Rapid Progress; what book is it?
- It entered Japanese in 1281 when a typhoon destroyed a Mongol invasion fleet. Approximately 633 years later, it entered English. What word is it?
- Does the following question make sense: Is an a fortiori ceterus paribus a reductio ad absurdum?
- It derives from the name of a Spanish political party whose name literally meant "those who will not agree"; what word is it?
- What substance's name derives from a Greek word meaning "belonging to Ammon"?
- In Greek para means "beside"; what do scientists call constant quantities beside which other quantities are measured?
- What is the antonym of the word ambilevous ?
- What syllable can indicate a member of a tribe, a member of a faction, and a denizen of a place?
- The word cigar is to cigarette as the word organ is to what?
- It derives from the Spanish papagayo, parrot, and it has come to denote a "vain, talkative person"; what word is it?
- Initially, it denoted a ram's horn that was blown in celebration, then it came to label a 50th-year celebration, now it denotes any time of rejoicing; what word is it?
- Paracelsus coined it to name a medicine that contained opium, gold, and crushed pearls (among other things); eventually it came to denote any tincture of opium; what word is it?
- When they were first detected in the 1960s, they were called radio stars because they emit large amounts of radiation, including radio waves; what did astronomers call them next?
- What geographical eponym was evoked by the North-African corsair Khair ad-Din?
- What do you call a member of Hezbollah?
- Etymology-wise, it purportedly means "sweet-speaking"; nowadays it describes speakers who sugar-coat harsh realities; what hyphenated phrase is it?
- According to American literary critic Paul Fussell in Thank God for the Atom Bomb, what slang word for intercourse did World War I soldiers coin by mispronouncing a French word meaning prostitute?
- What bacterium's name means twisted berry in Greek?
- What are the two adjectival forms of the word troglodyte?
- What are residents of Cairo called?
- Which American city's nickname means "goat enclosure" in Old English?
- In which century was the word deodorant coined: the 15th or the 19th?
- According to Bertrand Russell, it originally denoted: "everything that is in the province of the muses"; what word is it?
- What cliche de-emphasizes the visible 1/9th?
- (Contest) What cliche de-emphasizes the visible 1/9th?
- It derives from a Latin word that was used to express disgust at the smell of a stench, and it is what an Englishman would say to express outraged propriety. What archaic three-letter oath is it?
- Originally, it was the name of a character in a 16th-century English comedy. Since then it has come to denote "that which is genuine." What hyphenated phrase is it?
- If it had been manufactured in Greece, it would have been called the Pleiades. What Japanese car-type is it?
- In 1964 the book The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America by E. Digby Baltzell was published and a new acronym entered common discourse. What was it?
- How many plurals does the word cyclops have?
- It denotes a "fall guy" and perhaps derives from the nickname of a 1880's minstrel show character who was blamed whenever something went wrong. What word is it?
- Derived from the name of a character in George Du Maurier's novel Trilby, it denotes a hypnotically forceful person who induces others to perform evil. What word is it?
- Originally, a nautical command to keep a ship's head to the wind, it now describes the emotionally distant. What word is it?
- What do Christians usually call camphor gum resin?
- According to the game show Jeopardy: A Chinese written character was coined by combining a character meaning "danger" with another meaning "opportunity"; what six-letter English word best translates it?
- It derives from a Latin word that means "one-tenth of a Roman legion"; now it labels a statistical grouping. What word is it?
- In what century did the term welfare - as in the sense "social effort to improve the well-being of the poor" - enter English?
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Pangram
(E?)(L?) http://www.wordsmith.org/
(E?)(L?) http://www.wordsmith.org/words/pangram.wav
pangram (PAN-gram, -gruhm, PANG-) noun
A sentence that makes use of all the letters of the alphabet.
[From Greek pan- (all) + -gram (something written).]
Many typists know "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" as a thirty-three-letter sentence that employs every letter in the alphabet at least once. Now fix your eyes on a sampling of the best pangrams of even fewer letters. What you are about to see are meaningful sentences that avoid obscure words yet contain every letter of the alphabet:
- Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. (thirty-two letters)
- Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. (thirty-one)
- How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. (thirty)
- Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. (twenty-nine)
- Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud. (twenty-eight)
- Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymph. (twenty-seven)
And now, wordaholics, logolepts, lexicomanes, and verbivores -- the Peter Pangram of all pangrams --
- Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. (twenty-six!)
If you can come up with a twenty-six letter pangram that makes easy sense and does not resort to names, initials, or mutant words, please rush it to me at richard.lederer@pobox.com.
Pokemon - das Nintendo-Kultspiel - Pokémon Name Origins - Pokemon Namen-Generator (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.pokemon.de/
(E?)(L?) http://www.gif-sammlung.de/
(E?)(L?) http://www.marillsworld.com/nameorigins.shtml
(E?)(L?) http://www.postkid.com/postkid/Archives/March2000/poketour/
(E?)(L?) http://pizza.sandwich.net/poke/pokemon.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=pokemon+name&meta=
"Pokemon"ist die Abkürzung für "Pocket Monster".
Die drei Start-Pokémon waren:
- Feuer-Pokémon Flemmli
- Pflanzen-Pokémon Geckarbor
- Wasser-Pokémon Hydropi
Auf der angegebenen Seite findet man eine lange Liste mit Hinweisen zur Zusammensetzung der Namen der Pokémon-Figuren. Hier die Liste der Namen in alphabetischer Reihenfolge ('Pokemon' ist allerdings nicht in der Liste zu finden.):
- Abra - Aerodactyl - Aipom - Alakazam - Ampharos - Arbok - Arcanine - Ariados - Articuno - Azumarill - Bayleef - Beedrill - Bellossom - Bellsprout - Blastoise - Blissey - Bulbasaur - Butterfree - Caterpie - Celebi - Chansey - Charizard - Charmander - Charmeleon - Chikorita - Chinchou - Clefable - Clefairy - Cleffa - Cloyster - Corsola - Crobat - Croconaw - Cubone - Cyndaquil - Delibird - Dewgong - Diglett - Ditto - Dodrio - Doduo - Donphan - Dragonair - Dragonite - Dratini - Drowzee - Dugtrio - Dunsparce - Eevee - Ekans - Electabuzz - Electrode - Elekid - Entei - Espeon - Exeggcute - Exeggutor - Farfetch'd - Fearow - Feraligatr - Flaafy - Flareon - Forretress - Furret - Gastly - Gengar - Geodude - Girafarig - Gligar - Gloom - Golbat - Goldeen - Golduck - Golem - Granbull - Graveler - Grimer - Growlithe - Gyarados - Haunter - Heracross - Hitmonchan - Hitmonlee - Hitmontop - Ho - HootHoot - Hoppip - Horsea - Houndoom - Houndour - Hypno - Igglybuff - Ivysaur - Jigglypuff - Jolteon - Jumpluff - Jynx - Kabuto - Kabutops - Kadabra - Kakuna - Kangaskhan - Kingdra - Kingler - Koffing - Krabby - Lanturn - Lapras - Larvitar - Ledian - Ledyba - Lickitung - Lugia - Machamp - Machoke - Machop - Maganium - Magby - Magcargo - Magikarp - Magmar - Magnemite - Magneton - Mankey - Mantine - Mareep - Marill - Marowak - Meowth - Metapod - Mew - Mewtwo - Miltank - Misdreavus - Moltres - Mr. - MimeMuk - Murkrow - Natu - Nidoking - Nidoqueen - Nidoran (F) - Nidoran (M) - Nidorina - Nidorino - Ninetales - Noctowl - Octillery - Oddish - Omanyte - Omastar - Onix - Paras - Parasect - Persian - Phanpy - Pichu - Pidgeot - Pidgeotto - Pidgey - Pikachu - Piloswine - Pineco - Pinsir - Politoed - Poliwag - Poliwhirl - Poliwrath - Ponyta - Porygon - Primeape - Psyduck - Pupitar - Quagsire - Quilava - Qwilfish - Raichu - Raikou - Rapidash - Raticate - Rattata - Remoraid - Rhydon - Rhyhorn - Sandshrew - Sandslash - Scizor - Scyther - Seadra - Seaking - Seel - Sentret - Shellder - Shuckle - Skarmory - Skiploom - Slowbro - Slowking - Slowpoke - Slugma - Smeargle - Smoochum - Sneasel - Snorlax - Snubbull - Spearow - Spinarak - Squirtle - Stantler - Starmie - Staryu - Sudowoodo - Suicune - Sunflora - Sunkern - Swinub - Tangela - Tauros - Teddiursa - Tentacool - Tentacruel - Togepi - Togetic - Totodile - Typhlosion - Tyranitar - Tyrogue - Umbreon - Unown - Ursaring - Vaporeon - Venomoth - Venonat - Venusaur - Victreebell - Vileplume - Voltorb - Vulpix - Wartortle - Weedle - Weepinbell - Weezing - Wigglytuff - Wobbuffet - Wooper - Xatu - Yanma - Zapdos - Zubat
Als Beispiele:
- Metapod - Metamorphism + Pod
- Weedle - Worm + Needle
Ein weiterer Link führt auch zu einer Liste mit Erklärungen zu Pokemon-Namen. (Aber auch da gibt es keine Erklärung für 'Pokemon'.)
Google brachte am 25.07.2003 insgesamt 350.000 Treffer zu 'Pokemon' und 'Name'.
Mögliche Namensdeutungen für 'Pokemon' wären:
- 'Knuffmonster' (nach engl. 'poke' = 'jemanden stoßen, puffen, knuffen')
- 'Feuermonster' (nach engl. 'poke up' = 'Feuer schüren')
- 'Naseweiss' (nach engl. 'poke ones nose into everything' = 'die Nase in alles hineinstecken')
- 'Schadebfreudemonster' (von engl. 'poke fun at someone' = 'sich über jemanden lustig machen')
- 'Bummelmonster' (von engl. 'poke about' = '(herum)trödeln, bummeln')
Auf der Seite "pizza.sandwich.net/poke/pokemon.html" gibt es einen Pokemone-Namensgenerator. Damit kann man sich einen Pokemon-Namen generieren lassen. Man gibt seinen Namen und seine Lieblingsfarbe ein und erhält einen namen präsentiert.
Bei "www.gif-sammlung.de" soll es auch Pokemon-Gifs geben, die ich allerdings nicht finden konnte.
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Scrabble (W3)
Der Name des Spiels, der auch als Produktname angemeldet wurde, trifft die Vorgehensweise beim Spielen recht gut. (Man wühlt in den Spielsteinen nach passenden Buchstaben.) Übersetzt heißt engl. "scrabble" = "scharren", "herumsuchen". Es kam aus dem Niederländischen nach England.
(E?)(L?) http://scrabbleschoten.homestead.com/files/1.000.000_links.htm
Hier findet man 1,000,000 Scrabble Links. (huge 320K HTML file)
Snooker (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.bartleby.com/61/31/S0513100.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/snooker
Die Bezeichnung "Snooker" für die englische Variante des Poolbillards soll von britischen Offizieren aus Indien mitgebracht worden sein.
(E?)(L?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker
In der englischen Wikipedia findet man dagegen folgenden Hinweis:
The word "snooker" was army slang for a first-year cadet. This came to be used for novices to the game, and eventually for the game itself. British billiards champion John Roberts travelled to India in 1885, where he met Chamberlain. Chamberlain explained the new game to him, and Roberts subsequently introduced it to England.
(E?)(L?) http://www.worldsnooker.com/about_the_game.htm
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Snooker, they say, began on a very wet and miserable day in Jubbulpore in India in 1875.
In those days, the officers of the Devonshire regiment would spend many hours around the billiard table as the monsoon lashed down. Boredom was the order of the day for those young men and one such officer, Sir Neville Chamberlain, started to experiment.
Various games, such as pyramids, life pool and black pool, were devised involving more than the traditional three billiard balls. These variations started to catch on and the inventive Chamberlain started to add various coloured balls until a basic form of Snooker was evolved.
That game included 15 reds, yellow, green, pink and black. Snooker was finally born when blue and brown were added in later years. Then, during the 1880’s word filtered back to England about this new game. Top Billiard player, John Roberts, journeyed to India in 1885 and was introduced to Chamberlain, and snooker was on the way.
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Ussolzewiechinogammarus (W3)
(E?)(L1) http://jeff560.tripod.com/words6.html
Das längste englische Wort, das alle Vokale zweimal enthält soll "Ussolzewiechinogammarus" sein. Es ist die Bezeichnung für ein kleines Krustentier.
Zur Namensherkunft konnte ich nichts in Erfahrung bringen. Namensgeber könnte ein russischer Biologe namens "Ussolzewiech" gewesen sein, der eine "dritte" ("Gamma" = 3. griechischer Buchstabe) Art dieser Krustentiere entdeckt hat.
Aber das ist nur eine Vermutung.
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