Etymology — The origins of English words

From gun + the noun-forming suffix -ery.

Possibly from an Old Norse word for a boil or sore, later shaped by an Anglo-Norman word meaning "to make uneasy."

From Old French artillerie, related to atillier, "to equip or fit out" — originally covering any war equipment, not just big guns.

From house + work.

From Old English windiġ, simply wind + the adjective suffix -y.

From Old French assister, from Latin assistere ("to stand by"), from ad- plus sistere ("to stand, cause to stand").

From Old French bouchier, "goat slaughterer," from bouc ("goat"), tracing back to a Germanic word for a male goat — the same root as the English word "buck."

From Old French bescuit, meaning "twice-cooked" (from Latin bis, "twice", plus coctus, "cooked") — describing bread baked a second time to dry it out for long storage.

From Old French terrible, from Latin terribilis, "frightful," from terrere, "to frighten."

From Middle English chereful, built from cheer (mood) plus the suffix -ful.

From 16th-century French favorit, ultimately from Latin favor ("goodwill") — tracing back to the verb faveo, "to favour, support."

From un- + tidy.

From arm + chair.

From Old English þurstiġ, formed from thirst plus -y.

From Middle French assistant, from "assister" ("to assist"), ultimately from Latin assistere.

Built from "hair," "dress" (in the sense of arranging or preparing), and the agent suffix "-er," meaning someone who dresses hair.

A compound of post (mail) and man.

From Old French engigneor, "one who builds or operates war machines" — from the same root as "engine" and "ingenious".

A compound of cloak and room, originally meaning a room for storing coats and cloaks.

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin 臺北 (Tái-běi), literally "Taiwan north."

From Middle English snubben, snibben (noun), either indigenous or from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove, rebuff, infringe”), from Proto-Germanic *snūbaną, *snūpaną. Related to English snip, snap, snape, sneap, to Old Norse sneypa (among more), to Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną. The original sense is visible in Nordic cognates, to an original sense of “pinching off” (→ “to repress, infringe”), really “snipping off” (Old Norse sneypa, Norwegian Nynorsk snøypa, Swedish snöpa, snoppa, snipa, snippa (“to pinch off, to squeeze off, to castrate”)), with nouns denoting “pinched end → point” (cf. Swedish snip (“snout, spout”), snibb (“lobe”)). Maybe distantly related to snoop (“be nosy”), to “pinched point” referencing snouts, i.e. the “pinched of point of the animal” (cf. Swedish snopp (“penis”)), then also maybe sniff. Compare Proto-Germanic *snabulaz; also English neb, nib (“beak, point”). Other cognate forms: Danish snubbe, snibbe, snibe, snippe, sneppe, snøbba; Swedish snebba, snåipa, snypa, snyppa.

From Latin despondere, "to give up" or "to lose heart".

From Middle English som time, "some time".

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.