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The title, “Koyaanisqatsi,” comes from the Hopi word meaning “life out of balance.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Tribal elders suggested Wo'aabi, an Indigenous word meaning "worm."
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
As I wrote in my 2023 book, “The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir,” the very name “Wales” is a Saxon word meaning “Home of the Foreigners.”
From Salon • May 27, 2024
Celebrated as Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday in other parts of the world, the name Shrove Tuesday derives from the English word meaning to seek forgiveness or be granted absolution.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2024
The word meaning “energetic” has a glr, it’s not “spritely”: Ed and Trixie were feeling sprightly.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
