Zlatibor mountain - The name Zlatibor started to be used in the 18th century, but its etymology is uncertain.
Alas, this is but one more unknowable in a long line of things that etymology has not yet figured out.
The second etymology comes from the flower's original color, and roots carnation in the Middle French carnation, "pink complexion," from the Latin root caro, "flesh," source of less delicate words like carnal and carnage.
The Online Etymology Dictionary reports that -our comes from old French while -or is Latin.
Knickerbocker Glory This curiously-named dessert (consisting of ice cream, served with fruit, cream, and other sweet ingredients in a tall glass) has an uncertain etymology, but may relate to the name Diedrich Knickerbocker, the pseudonym used by Washington Irving for A History of New York in 1809.
Knickerbocker Glory This curiously-named dessert (consisting of ice cream, served with fruit, cream, and other sweet ingredients in a tall glass) has an uncertain etymology, but may relate to the name Diedrich Knickerbocker, the pseudonym used by Washington Irving for A History of New York in 1809.
The etymology expert Mark Forsyth, meanwhile, claims that Turkish traders brought guinea fowl to England from Madagascar, off the coast of southeast Africa, and that Spanish conquistadors then introduced American fowl to Europe, where they were conflated with the "turkeys" from Madagascar.
