Washington, its derivation (Leo, Treatise on the Local Nomenclature of the Anglo-Saxons, 1852)
Type: a quote Sub-type: a word definition/derivation Relevance: prophecy Text: "And the serpent [ the dragon ] cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth." Revelation 12:15,16 "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth ; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon ." Revelation 13:11 ...a planted beast/nation! [...] the word was-a, gen. wasan (masc.), satyrus , faunus , a sort of genius of the woods, also wudewasa, faunus sylvaticus . This word is allied to the clearly formed word wasjan, insanire , furere , bacchari ; also to the Old Norse vasa, licentius incidere ; vas (neut.), licentior incisus , animosior progressus . [...] [...] Wassing is derived from wasa, faunus , and is patronymic—the descendant of a vasa. Examples:...