- ujamaa
[ujamaa 词源字典] - "(In Tanzania) a socialist system of village cooperatives based on equality of opportunity and self-help, established in the 1960s", Kiswahili, literally 'brotherhood', from jamaa 'family', from Arabic jamā‘a 'community'.[ujamaa etymology, ujamaa origin, 英语词源]
- ukase (n.)[ukase 词源字典]
- "decree issued by a Russian emperor," 1729, from Russian ukaz "edict," back-formation from ukazat' "to show, decree, to order," from Old Church Slavonic ukazati, from u- "away," perhaps here an intensive prefix, from PIE *au- (2) "off, away" + kazati "to show, order," from Slavic *kaz- (related to the first element of Casimir), from PIE root *kwek- "to appear, show."[ukase etymology, ukase origin, 英语词源]
- uke (n.)[uke 词源字典]
- short for ukulele, by 1915.[uke etymology, uke origin, 英语词源]
- Ukraine[Ukraine 词源字典]
- from Russian or Polish Ukraina, literally "border, frontier," from u- "at" + krai "edge." So called from being regarded as the southern frontier of Poland or Russia. Related: Ukrainian.[Ukraine etymology, Ukraine origin, 英语词源]
- ukulele (n.)[ukulele 词源字典]
- 1896, from Hawaiian 'ukulele, literally "leaping flea," from 'uku "louse, flea" + lele "to fly, jump, leap." Noted earlier in English as the Hawaiian word for "flea." The instrument so called from the rapid motion of the fingers in playing it. It developed from a Portuguese instrument introduced to the islands c. 1879.[ukulele etymology, ukulele origin, 英语词源]
- ulcer (n.)[ulcer 词源字典]
- c. 1400, from Old French ulcere, from Vulgar Latin ulcerem, from Latin ulcus (genitive ulceris) "ulcer, a sore," figuratively "painful subject," from PIE *elk-es- "wound" (cognates: Greek elkos "a wound, sore, ulcer," Sanskrit Related: arsah "hemorrhoids").[ulcer etymology, ulcer origin, 英语词源]
- ulcerate[ulcerate 词源字典]
- "Develop into or become affected by an ulcer", Late Middle English: from Latin ulcerat- 'made ulcerous', from the verb ulcerare.[ulcerate etymology, ulcerate origin, 英语词源]
- ulceration (n.)[ulceration 词源字典]
- c. 1400, from Latin ulcerationem (nominative ulceratio), noun of action from past participle stem of ulcerare "to make sore," from stem of ulcus (see ulcer).[ulceration etymology, ulceration origin, 英语词源]
- ulcerous (adj.)[ulcerous 词源字典]
- early 15c., from Latin ulcerosus "full of sores," from stem of ulcus (see ulcer).[ulcerous etymology, ulcerous origin, 英语词源]
- ullage[ullage 词源字典]
- ullage: [15] Ullage denotes the amount of unfilled space in a wine bottle or barrel. It goes back ultimately to Latin oculus ‘eye’ (a distant relative of English eye), in the metaphorical sense ‘bung-hole of a barrel’. As the word passed into Old French as oeil, this meaning followed it, and it formed the basis of a varb ouiller ‘fill up a barrel to the bung-hole’. From this was derived ouillage, which English acquired via Anglo-Norman ulliage as ullage.
=> eye, ocular[ullage etymology, ullage origin, 英语词源] - ullage (n.)
- "amount by which a cask or bottle falls short of being full," late 15c., from Anglo-French ulliage (early 14c.), Anglo-Latin oliagium (late 13c.), Old French ouillage, from ouiller "to fill up (a barrel) to the bung," literally "to fill to the eye," from ueil "eye" (perhaps used colloquially for "bung"), from Latin oculus (see eye (n.)).