Etymograph

English

Kermit

Kermit comes from Manx Kermode.

  1. ManxmodernKermode
  2. EnglishtodayKermit

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. ManxmodernKermode
  2. EnglishtodayKermit

The story

Popularized in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor). The computing sense is named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY").folk etymology The source marks this as unproven or a folk etymology. Quoted, not asserted.

Every English word from Manx Kermode

Today it means

name A male given name from Manx.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Manx Kermode / Kermit

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