Compound Words and Word from Names

Compound Words

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          Fireflies : kunang-kunang

2.    Fireworks : kembang api

3.    Passport : paspor

4.    Football : sepak bola

5.    Hometown : kampung halaman

6.    Blacksmith : pandai besi

7.    Blacktop : aspal

8.    Sweetmeat : manisan / gula-gula

9.    Friendship : persahabatan

10.  Backlog : jaminan simpanan

Words From Names

1.    Ammonia : A pungent nitrogen-based gas or liquid used widely as a household cleaning agent, from Ammon or Amen, an Egyptian god of oracles because ammonia was first obtained from a region near the temple of Amen, in Libya.

2.    Boycott : To refuse to do business with because of a difference of opinion, from Charles C. Boycott (1832-1897), Irish land agent for an absentee landlord who refused to bow to Irish land reforms of the 1880s and was shunned by members of the party supporting the reforms (the Irish Land League) who denied him servants, postal service, access to stores, etc.

3.    Cardigan : A knit sweater that buttons in front, from : James Thomas Brudnell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), British cavalry officer.

4.    Diesel : A type of motor engine that runs on heating oil rather than gasoline or petrol, from Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913), the German mechanical engineer who invented it.

5.    Fauna : The animal kingdom, all animals taken together, from Faunus, the Roman god of pastures and forests.

6.    Gamp : A large, baggy umbrella. After the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp, a character in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens.

7.    Hansom : cab a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the driver's seat behind the passengers, from  Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-82), an architect from Hinckley, Leicestershire, England, who designed and patented it.

8.    Iris : A beautiful tuber plant with large, multicolored flowers growing on a single stem resembling large orchids, from Iris, Greek goddess of the rainbow; also the Greek word for "rainbow".

9.    Jovial : Happy, amiable, jocular, from  Jove, the English for Jovialis, an alternate name for Jupiter, supreme god of Roman mythology, considered to be the source of all happiness.

10.  Knickers  : 1. (US) Pants with legs cut off and gathered just below the knee, often worn by golfers. 2. (UK) Women's underpants. Short for knickerbockers, for the family Knickerbocker in the fictitious History of New York by Washington Irving (1783-1859), shown wearing baggy pants with legs gathered just below the knee in the illustrations by George Cruikshank.

11.  Marathon : An arduous footrace or other long and difficult undertaking that is a test of endurance. The city of Marathon, Greece where, in 490 BCE, the Greeks defeated the Persians even though heavily outnumbered because a messenger named Pheidippides ran 150 miles in two days to Sparta for help

12.  Nicotine : The poisonous addictive chemical in tobacco smoke, from Jean Nicot (1530-1600), the French ambassador to Portugal, who promoted smoking by sending tobacco seeds and leaves to France in the mid 16th century.

13.  Odyssey : A long, wandering journey, from Odysseus, the mythological Greek hero of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey.

14.  Palladium : 1. A protector or safeguard. 2. A sacred object believed to protect an administrative region (city, state, country, etc.). After the protector of Troy, the Greek goddess Pallas Athena.

15.  Panic : To lose control of yourself in a state of nervous anxiety, from Pan, the Greek god of the forests, shepherds and flocks, represented as a human torso with a goat's legs, horns, and ears.

16.  Quisling : Traitor, collaborator, from Vidkun Abraham Quisling (1887-1945), a Norwegian collaborator with the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II.

17.  Roentgen : A unit of radiation exposure equal to the amount of ionizing radiation that creates one electrostatic unit of electricity in one cubic centimeter of dry air, from Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays.

18.  Sandwich : Food on a slice of bread or between two slices, eaten with the hands, from John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), an English aristocrat after whom Captain James Cook also named the Sandwich Islands.

19.  Slave : A person who legally belongs to another and has no rights within the law, from Sclavus, Medieval Latin word for 'a Slav', a member of the Slavonic people of central Europe, including Poles, Czechs, Russian, and Ukrainians.

20.  Titanic : Huge, gigantic, from The Titans, 12 primeval gigantic gods and goddesses in Greek mythology.

21.  Volcano : An opening in the earth through which molten lava issues or a mountain build up of lava, from Vulcan (Latin Volcanus), the Roman god of fire and metalworking.

22.  Weber : A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells, from Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891), German physicist known for his research into magnetism and electricity.

23.  Zany : Outrageously funny, ridiculous, from  Zanni, a traditional clown who wears a mask with a long, downward curving beak in the Italian Commedia dell'arte.