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He also offers the hoary old `bitterness' or `rebelliousness' for Mary , whereas it is now thought that the name derives from the Hebrew root element MRH meaning literally `to be plump,' so in a transferred sense `strong,' `beautiful.
Badminton derives from the name of the estate in Gloucestershire where the game was first played in England; tennis stems from tenetz , an old form of tenez , from French tenir `to hold'; and squash , according to scholars, probably grew out of the “squashy” sound which the original soft ball made against the wall of the court.
No less an authority than Professor Robert A. Hall, Jr., of Cornell University, one of the world's leading figures in Romance linguistics and historical linguistics, the author of dozens of scholarly books and hundreds of scholarly articles, states that it derives ultimately from Cantonese Pidgin Portuguese through Chinese Pidgin English ( Pidgin and Creole Languages , Cornell University Press, 1966, p.
But perhaps some consideration should be given to separating squash racquets more precisely from those games from which it derives and with which it is often confused.
, E. cinerea ) but which is literally `near or close to heather'; and fraoch nam Meinnearach is assigned to clan Menzies, though the name probably derives from Archibald Menzies, a well-known 18th-century botanist of North America, rather than from a very rare heather this clan is not likely to have encountered, never mind worn into battle.