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English eight, from Old English eahta, æhta, Proto-Germanic *ahto is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓ(w)-, and as such cognate with Greek ὀκτώ and Latin octo-, both of which stems are reflected by the English prefix oct(o)-, as in the ordinal adjective octaval or octavary, the distributive adjective is octonary.
In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad (Ancient Greek: ὀγδοάς "the Eightfold"; Ancient Egyptian: ḫmnyw, a plural nisba of ḫmnw "eight") were eight primordial deities worshiped in Hermopolis. The earliest certain reference to the Ogdoad is from the Eighteenth Dynasty, in a dedicatory inscription by Hatshepsut at the Speos Artemidos. [2]
This demonym has no further known etymology, [38] [39] though some give it the meaning 'sleepy ones'. [40] Kansas: May 12, 1832: Kansa via French: kką:ze via Cansez [41] Named after the Kansas River, [42] [43] which in turn was named after the Kaw or Kansas tribe. [9] The name seems to be connected to the idea of "wind". [44] Kentucky: April ...
According to Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, “to 86” also means "to kill, to murder; to execute judicially," likely referring to the size of a standard grave being 2.5 feet wide by 8 feet long and 6 feet deep. [1] [9] This usage was derived from the slang term used in restaurants. [10] Other slang dictionaries confirm this definition. [11 ...
The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bāguà; lit. 'eight trigrams') is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another.
PIE English Gothic Latin Ancient Greek Sanskrit Iranian Slavic Baltic Celtic Armenian Albanian Tocharian Hittite *sem-"one, together" same (< ON samr); OE sam-"together"; [also German zusammen]
Etymology of the chemical element names Element Original word Language of origin Meaning Nature of origin Name (symbol) Z Description (symbol etymology, former names) Hydrogen (H) 1 ὕδωρ (root: ὑδρ-) + γενής (hydor genes) Greek via Latin and French "water + begetter" descriptive
8, the X-SAMPA symbol for the close-mid central rounded vowel, equivalent to the IPA symbol ɵ 8, a common substitute for the ou-ligature ȣ 8, a letter in the Old Italic script (𐌚) with the value /f/