Comment by ssl-3
1 hour ago
nVidia comes from the Latin word invidia, which means things like envy, or jealousy.
Microsoft (originally Micro-Soft) is a portmanteau of microcomputer and software.
Facebook, as others have mentioned, is a compound word that was borrowed from what literal books of faces [and names] were called.
When I think of non-dictionary names, I think of things like Mosptnspg.
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