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An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods. The most common type of anachronism is an object misplaced in time, but it may be a verbal ...
The name Isabel appears in the Book of Mormon at Alma 39:3. According to the Book of Mormon, Isabel lived about 74 BC. Isabel is a female name of Spanish origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of Elisabeth (ultimately Hebrew Elisheva). [104] [105] The name arose in the 12th century AD well after the Isabel in the Book of Mormon.
Like the name Tiffany, the following names have been mistakenly thought to be of modern origin but are actually historical: Shane, which dates back to the 17th century as a masculine name derived from Gaelic; Beverly, which originated from the term "beaver meadow" and has historical usage
Anachronism, chronological inconsistency, is seen in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth in the juxtaposition of cultures of evidently different periods, such as the classically-inspired Gondor and the medieval-style Rohan, and in the far more modern hobbits of the Shire, a setting which resembles the English countryside of Tolkien ...
An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians. Onomastics has applications in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.
The Latin name Caesarea was also applied to the colony of New Jersey as Nova Caesarea, because the Roman name of the island was thought to have been Caesarea. [70] [71] The name "Jersey" most likely comes from the Norse name Geirrsey, meaning 'Geirr's Island'. [72] New Mexico: November 1, 1859: Nahuatl via Spanish: Mēxihco via Nuevo México
Millford in County Donegal, historically called Ballynagalloglagh (from Irish: Baile na nGallóglach), is a small town and townland whose Irish name means "town of the gallowglasses". [10] A battle between the Irish (helped by gallóglaigh) and the English took place on a hill in the townland and this is where the name comes from.
It is not certain whether the occurrence in 2 Sam.5:20 name is: (a) a word play - David is punning on an existing local name. [1] (b) an anachronism - such as "Abraham came to Dan" Genesis 14:14. Yoshitaka Kobayashi considers it an anachronism, [2] but the use of Baal rather than El may indicate a play on an existing local name.