Etymology — The origins of English words

From Old French destinee, from Latin destinare, "to determine or fix".

From Latin fatum, "that which has been spoken" — originally a prophecy or divine decree.

From Old French alquemiste, from Medieval Latin alchemista — built on "alchemy" plus the agent suffix "-ist."

From 義 (Yoshi, common Japanese male given name), and many other spellings. See よし.

From Old English ford, related to the idea of "crossing" — a distant cousin of the words firth and fjord.

Formed from "cross" plus the suffix "-ing."

Formed from million plus the ordinal ending "-th".

From thousand plus the ordinal suffix -th.

From hundred + the ordinal suffix -th.

From Old English truht and Old French truite, both tracing back to a Late Latin word possibly derived from a Greek term meaning "to gnaw" — a nod to the fish's feeding habits.

From Old English twēntigoþa, built from twenty plus the ordinal ending -th.

From nineteen + the ordinal ending -th.

Inherited from Middle English eightetenthe, eightetethe, from Old English eahtatēoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô tehundô. Equivalent to eighteen + -th (ordinal suffix).

From seventeen + -th.

From "sixteen" plus the ordinal suffix "-th."

From measure plus the noun suffix -ment.

From dumb + ass. It is likely that ¹ass (= donkey), not ²ass (= buttocks), was the original sense within this compound noun (solid compound or open compound), but neither sense is precluded, and many people today may uncritically parse the term in the latter way, even if it is misapprehensive. Apparent analogy with forms such as hard-ass and big-ass would naturally lend support to the second parsing. A similar synergy can be seen in the fact that the terms buttload and assload originated as literally meaning a cartload and the load transportable by a single donkey (respectively), but probably most English speakers today would assume that their derivation involves the buttocks.

From Old French Gerart, from Frankish elements meaning "spear" and "hard, brave."

A variant form of "puppet".

From German "Salz" (salt) and "Burg" (castle or fortress), referencing local salt trade.

The name traces back through German Zürich and Old High German Zurih to the Latin name Turicum, itself probably from an earlier Celtic settlement name.

Ultimately from Classical Persian زنگبار (zangibār), literally meaning “black-skinned coast”.

Named after Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, whose name was also given to the tall leather boot and, later, to this pastry-wrapped dish.

The English name derives from the Polish Warszawa, ultimately traced back to an Old Polish personal or place name.