Kermit
English
Etymology
Variant of English and Manx Kermode (“a surname”), cognate with Irish Mac Diarmata (“son of Dermot”). Popularised in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor).
Computing sense named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY").
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)mɪt
Proper noun
Kermit
- (chiefly US) A male given name from Manx.
- The puppet Kermit the Frog, host of The Muppet Show and a frequent character in Sesame Street, originally performed by creator Jim Henson.
- (computing) An asynchronous file transfer protocol, often used for communication between different types of minicomputer or mainframe.
- A city in Texas, named after Kermit Roosevelt. It is the county seat of Winkler County.
- A town in West Virginia, named after Kermit Roosevelt.
Further reading
Kermit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Kermit the Frog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Kermit (protocol) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Categories:
- English terms derived from Manx
- Rhymes:English/ɜː(r)mɪt
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- American English
- English given names
- English male given names
- English male given names from Manx
- en:Computing
- en:Cities in Texas, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:Places in Texas, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Towns in West Virginia, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Places in West Virginia, USA
- English eponyms
- en:Cities
- en:Towns