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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
It said it often used the term "Riba", an Arabic word meaning "excess" and commonly used to describe the prohibition of interest under Islamic law.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
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
Weid, a word meaning to see, with later connotations of wisdom and wit, entered Germanic as witan, and Old English wis to “wisdom.”
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
