köken: 15th century in the form Grobianus, shortened by the 16th century. Humorous formation from grob (“coarse”) + Latin -iānus. Compare Schlendrian and further Dummerjan, Liederjan (also Dummrian, Liedrian).
Setze mir nicht, du Grobian, / Mir den Krug so derb vor die Nase
köken: Inherited from Old French ogre, itself probably an alteration, with influence from words like bougre, of an earlier form *orc, from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”), with metathesis. According to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, first attested in the late 12th century meaning 'fierce non-Christian', and ca. 1300 meaning 'human-eating giant' (in fairy tales). Cognate…
aile: l'ogre de Corse, manger comme un ogre, ogrerie, ogresque
köken: Borrowed from French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὅρκος (Hórkos), the personified demon of oaths (ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon perjurers. Doublet of ork (“orc”).
köken: Unknown. Generally believed to be based on a calque of Greek κυνοκέφαλος (kynokéfalos, literally “dog-head”). (See cap and câine, cf. Aromanian capdicãne). The -un suffix may indicate an expressive treatment, similar to gărgăun. Also, possibly from a Medieval Latin *capcanus, or linked with an old Turkic kapgan.
köken: One theory suggests a derivation from Russian угри (ugri, “eels”). An alternative theory, based on historical forms of the name (Wogene, Woga) posits a relationship to Finno-Ugric, e.g. Estonian voog (“flow, stream, wave”), from Proto-Finnic *voo, from Proto-Uralic *uwa- (“to flow”), possibly via Livonian [Term?].