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The Etymology of “Chincough” [PDF]
Nature, 1915 THERE can, I think, be no doubt that “chincough” is a good English word, meaning whooping-cough and nothing else. It has nothing to do with chien (a dog), as Mr. Hart supposes (NATURE, October 21), or with chin, although to anyone who has noticed the depression and thrusting forward of the lower jaw during a paroxysm this derivation might seem probable.
Dawson Williams
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Bibliographical Materials for Afrikaans Etymological Lexicography
Lexikos, 2011 <p>Abstract: Afrikaans etymological lexicography has yet to see an analytic dictionary along the lines of Sigmund Feist's Gotisches etymologisches Wörterbuch or Anatoly Liberman's An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology.
Jeremy Bergerson
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Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2017 The decisive clue for an etymology is often found by chance. This paper presents four cases which come from the author’s personal experience.
Alessandro Parenti
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Paleolinguistics brings more light on the earliest history of the traditional Eurasian pulse crops [PDF]
, 2011 Traditional pulse crops such as pea, lentil, field bean, bitter vetch, chickpea and common vetch originate from Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asia^1^.
Aleksandar Medovic +7 more
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The Trichoptera of Panama XIV. New species of microcaddisflies (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) from Omar Torrijos Herrera National Park [PDF]
, 2020 . In 2017, a new project was begun to assess the biodiversity of national parks and forest reserves in the Republic of Panama. Designated “Proyecto Sistema de Producción Sostenible Conservación de la Biodiversidad (PSPSCB)”, this project is managed by ...
Armitage, Brian J., Harris, Steven C.
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, 2022 This article analyzes etymology as the study of the roots and history of words and how their meaning altered over time.
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On the Origins of “Pickawillany”
Names, 2014 “Pickawillany” is the usual English name of a colonial-era Miami village located in western Ohio on the Great Miami River, near the site of present-day Piqua, in Miami County, Ohio. There have been many attempts to explain the etymology of “Pickawillany”
David J. Costa
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Educação Química en Punto de Vista, 2019 The presence of etymology of scientific concepts in books of natural sciences that the Ministry of Education of Chile gives to the municipal schools of the country was investigated.
Luis Miño González, Diana Abril Milán
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Permeating etymology– remarks on Permic etymology
Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja, 2023 This article discusses five Permic words or group of words including *ki̮ri̮m ‘handful, bunch’, *kun ‘lye’, *li̮a ‘sand’, *mi̮r- ‘to take by force, exert effort’ and *vi̮ŋ ‘strength, might’. The words typically have an existing etymology, which in most cases is a Uralic comparison.
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