"I thought that the German curse had turned into a German blessing, " he said, when asked what he thought when he heard the final word, a German-derived Yiddish word for a type of dumpling.
The word "rococo" is derived from the French word "rocaille", which denoted shell-covered rockwork.
One theory is that it's derived from the word "nuncheon", an old Anglo-Saxon word which meant a quick snack between meals that you can hold in your hands.
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Dr. Breach doesn't seem to know that the word "fat" comes from "vat", a Teutonic word derived from "fassen", which means to hold or contain, like a vessel, particularly a precious one containing baptismal water.
Paget says Belu -- derived from the word blue and the Italian word for beautiful, "bella" -- takes a three-pronged approach to its clean water projects, by not only providing a clean water source for drinking but water for washing hands and education about the importance of hygiene.
The word sommelier (pronounced some-el-YAY) is derived from the Vulgar Latin word for "beast of burden, " which may seem at odds with the image of a well-dressed man (or woman) proffering a wine list to a table of guests.
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Derived from the Greek word for "circle, " an encyclical is among the church's most authoritative teaching documents.
Robot is derived from the Slovak word robota, which means drudgery or servitude.
Beleaguered insurer AIG is renaming its property-casualty and general insurance business "Chartis, " which it derived from the Greek word for map.
These displaced people acquired a distinct name -- "Dravidian" -- derived from a Sanskrit word for people living south of the Vindhya.
The meaning of a word can be derived from its etymology or it can be assigned arbitrarily and artificially.
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Schulden, the German word for debt, is derived from Schuld, which also means guilt.
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Derived from French and old Catalan, this word nearly bounced champion Arvind Mahankali from the finals.
Certainly they are not Egyptians, from which the word, in English, is derived.
The Greek word for star, aster, is derived from Ishtar, the Babylonian fertility goddess, whom the Greeks identified with the planet Venus.
The winning word for 2013 was from German-derived Yiddish, a source of much amusement to champion Arvind Mahankali, 13, of Bayside Hills, N.
Even the word tennis has French origins from the medieval era, derived from the tenez, from the verb tenir, to hold.
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This is an Indo-European concoction, derived from avancer, French for "to advance, " and the word sthapna, which means "well grounded" in Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language.
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