Where did the word dolphin come from?
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The name is from Ancient Greek δελφίς (delphis) meaning "with a womb", viz. "a 'fish' with a womb".
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The term you're thinking about it 'goolies'. I really don't know where it comes from, but it refers to the testes, rather than the penis
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RUBBER MATCH - "A 'rubber match' or 'rubber game' or simply 'rubber' in any sport means a deciding contest between two tied opponents. The term dates back to the late 16th century but no one seems certain of its etymology or in what sport it originated. The expression was not used in card games until the mid 18th century and the earliest recorded use of it appears to be a 1599 reference, cited in the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' to the game of bowls. The word 'rubber' in the term seems to derive from a word of unknown origin, not the resilient substance called 'rubber' or the verb 'to rub.'" From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
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Do you mean Balena?. It's italian for whale.
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I think the word spiritual comes from spirit. It's originally from the Latin "Espiritu."
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All I could think of was the Bushman language in backwoods Australia. I just remember they had a lot of clicks and noises from the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy." If you don't have a limit on whether they are human languages or not, you can pick all kinds of animal languages, like dolphins or whales. See link below for more information on the Bushman language.
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My dad use to say that sometimes when I was going out on a date.  "Going to watch the submarine races?" It would be nice to know the origin of that.  All I could think of was making out.
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Genus, species come in both Greek and Latin names\n\nlotor means washer as the German name for Racoon is Waschbär which obviously means wash-bear.  Anyone who would try to say otherwise hasn't studied enough Latin and Ancient Greek.\n\nlotor comes from an abreviated and archaic spelling of the perfect passive participle of lavo\n\nProcyon προκύον means before the dog\n\nOne must remember that Latin was used continuously for over 1000 years and in that space of time the languaged changed much before it was clearly divided into its vernacular children.
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To those of you who are freaking out:\n\nMahi-mahi is also called dolphin, dolphin-fish, dorado [sea bream].\nOne of the most delectable fish in the sea, this fish bears no resemblance or relation to the marine mammal called dolphin or porpoise. The Hawaiian name mahi-mahi is used to prevent confusion. Mahi-mahi is a beautiful fish, blue and gold or green and gold, and is highly prized as a game fish. It is very easy to distinguish the male or 'bull' mahi-mahi by its blunt, almost squared-off head profile. \n\nTo answer the question:  http://www.catch-em-all.com/\nis a website you should check out, its a Florida Keys Charter Fishing guide.  Has contact numbers and everything.
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The term tsunami comes from the Japanese language meaning harbour ("tsu", 津) and wave ("nami", 波).
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It comes from Cockney Rhyming slang, originating in the east end of London. (Cockneys are traditional those born within earshot of the bells of Bow Church)\n\nBristols = Bristol Cities = Titties.\n\nSome othe examples are\nButhers = Buthers Hook = Look\nBoat Race = Face\n\nIn use it would be something like "Jesus have a butchers at her bristols... shame about the boat race."\n\nhttp://www.lingo.arollo.com/cockney.html\n\nMany of the cockney rhyming slang terms have become every day terms around the UK now.
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I bet some dolphin told you that, right?\n\nYeah, I though so. So while we're busy attacking them, the dolphins consolidate their grip on the oceans
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This has all of the information that you should need.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin\n\nGood luck!
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According to the English, it is derived from a place name indicating that they came from a place near the woods, or perhaps a grove of trees. My guess is that it is of Scandinavian origin and can be found all over Northern Europe.
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.WHALES AND DOLPHINS:\n\nWhales and Dolphins are marine animals. They live in oceans around the world. Whales and Dolphins come from the same family, CETACEA (sey-tay-sha) . They both breath from a blowhole located at the top of their head. Whales and dolpins are mammals. They are mammals because they have lungs not gills,they have hair not scales , and they also have give live birth and don't lay eggs. There are only about 80 kinds of whales and dolphins that we know of right now.\n\nWHALES:\nWhales are very large animals. They can grow up to 100 ft. or more in length. They can weigh up to 200 tons or more. Whales live in families called pods. These pods vary in numbers and consist of family members and family friends. Whales live in these families their whole life. Group living is safer when other whales or sharks attack. It also makes it easier to find food. Whales are always migrating. They travel to find food, breed and have young.\nWhales do not have eyelids. They rely on thick oily tears to protect their eyes. Whales hear from little holes behind their eyes.\n\nWhales talk to each other by making high pitched sounds like whistles, clicks, squeaks, rattles, and groans.\n\nTo help protect the whales from extinction please DO NOT throw nets, fishing lures, or other fishing gear ocean\n\nDOLPHINS:\nDolphins live with the whales in the oceans. But dolphins come much closer to the shore. They will come as close to the shore as you or I can walk without going under water. Dolphins have teeth.\nLooking at a dolphin you would not think it as a nose, but surprise...it does! They have nostrils called blowholes. Over millions of years of evoloution whales and dolphins nostrils moved to the top of their head. This allows them to breath by surfacing instead of them sticking their whole head out of the water.\nThe first thing a newborn dolphin must do is to go to the surface to breathe. But the baby can not swim so its mother and a another dolphin will help push the baby to the surface for its first breath of air. The baby will be able to swim in about 30 min.\nDolphins are fast swimmers. When a speeding boat passes the bottlenose dolphin, it will start to race out in front . They will take off hitting the water and keep going.\nDolphins navigate by following the hills and mountains of the ocean floor, by tracking the sun, by sensing currents, and by tasting the water along the journey.\nA dolphin's sound probably originated in its nasal passages. These nasal passages are located on the top of the head. Dolphins can make sounds to see what lies ahead. This sense is called echolocations. The dolphins' sound waves hit an object and the echo bounces back. Echolocation sounds are called sprays. Sprays are so strong they can stun another whale. Dolphins don't "point" their melons at any other sealife except their enemies.\n\nSHARKS:\nOut of all the species walking, flying, slithering or swimming, there aren't many who have been around as long, survived as well, or come in so many shapes and kinds as the shark. The earliest evidences of sharks are isolated spines, teeth and scales that appeared about 430 million years ago in the Silurian Period, known as the "Age of Fishes". Sharks have a sleek, streamlined design which helps them swim without using up a lot of energy.They certainly need to conserve their energy because they never really sleep and most of them never stop swimming.\n\nSome sharks are fierce predators, and would be happy to eat you if they encountered you. Almost any shark six feet or longer is a potential danger, but three species have been identified repeatedly in attacks: the Great White Shark, the Tiger Shark and the Bull Shark . All three live world wide, reach large sizes and eat large prey such as marine mammals or sea turtles. But most sharks never grow longer than five feet and never even see anyone with legs and arms anyway. People kill thousands more sharks every year than sh
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Did you mean surname Hucks? I found one website that gives a good description of the origin, but I was unable to copy/paste it. The link is below :-)
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Everyone is wrong except the guy who said it was from Anglo-Saxon.  "F..k" has a long pedigree in the Germanic languages.  It was found in Proto-Germanic about 2500 years ago as the verb *fukan 'have intercourse'.  This was not vulgar at that time and was a euphemism for some older word.  Ultimately, it comes from Proto-Indo-European *pug- "to strike", from which we get the borrowed Latin form pugilism 'boxing'.