Etymology excerpts
Geronimo (interj.)
cry made in jumping, 1944 among U.S. airborne soldiers, apparently from the story of the Apache leader Geronimo making a daring leap to escape U.S. cavalry pursuers at Medicine Bluffs, Oklahoma (and supposedly shouting his name in defiance as he did). Adopted as battle cry by paratroopers in World War II, who perhaps had seen it in the 1939 Paramount Studios movie “Geronimo.” The name is the Italian and Spanish form of Jerome, from Greek Hieronomos, literally “sacred name.” One contemporary source also lists Osceola as a jumping cry.
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Jerome
masc. proper name, from French Jérome, from Late Latin Hieronymus, from Greek Hieronymos, literally “holy name,” from hieros “holy” (see ire) + onyma, dialectal form of onoma “name” (from PIE root *no-men- “name”).
That is SO interesting! I love to look up word derivations.
Etymology excerpts
Geronimo (interj.)
cry made in jumping, 1944 among U.S. airborne soldiers,
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Jerome
masc. proper name, from French Jérome, from Late Latin Hieronymus
I’m so far behind, but am quite surprised that bagster didn’t “weigh in” on this, and make a wisecrack about Corsi jumping... ;-)
Cats! Geronimo;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
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Geronimo’s chief, Mangas Coloradas (Spanish for “red sleeves”), sent him to Cochise’s band for help in his revenge against the Mexicans. It was during this incident that the name Geronimo came about. This appellation stemmed from a battle in which, ignoring a deadly hail of bullets, he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers with a knife. The origin of the name is a source of controversy with historians, some writing that it was appeals by the soldiers to Saint Jerome (”Jerónimo!”) for help. Debo repeats this, speculating also an alternative unlikely in terms of phonetics, that it may have been “as close as they [Mexican soldiers] could come to the choking sounds that composed his name.”[21]...”
The name is; (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé Athabaskan pronunciation: [kòjàːɬɛ́] “the one who yawns”,