Etymology — The origins of English words

Borrowed from Japanese manga, itself from Chinese characters meaning roughly "free, unrestrained" plus "drawing." The word took off after an 1814 book by the artist Hokusai used it as a title.

Borrowed from Japanese anime, itself a shortened form of animēshon, which Japanese borrowed from the English word "animation."

From Old French atorné, "one appointed [to act for another]," from atorner, "to assign, appoint."

From Latin contentus, "contained; satisfied," the past participle of continēre ("to contain").

From Old English ebba, referring to the outgoing tide — ultimately from a Germanic root meaning "off" or "away," the same idea behind the modern word "of."

The food sense comes from Dutch "wafel", related to "weave" because of its honeycomb grid. The "talk vaguely" sense grew separately in English, describing rambling, unfocused speech.

From Scots pet ("a tamed animal, or a spoiled darling"), probably from Scottish Gaelic peata.

A clipping of "teenager".

From Greek hyperbolē ("excess, exaggeration"), literally "a throwing beyond" — from hyper- ("above") + ballein ("to throw"). A doublet of "hyperbola," the math curve.

Traces back through alchemy to Arabic al-kīmiyāʔ, itself rooted in Ancient Greek khumeia ("art of alloying metals").

From "Ukraine" plus the suffix "-ian", meaning "belonging to" or "from".

From temporary + the adverb-forming suffix -ly.

Of uncertain origin, first recorded in Middle English as pouren — possibly related to an Old French word meaning "to sift" or "purify" liquid.

From Old English styrian, "to move, agitate, disturb" — related to German stören, "to disturb."

Borrowed around 1710 from French "connoisseur," an old spelling of "connaisseur," from "connaître," meaning "to know."

From Middle English funell, likely via Old French, ultimately from Latin infundibulum ("funnel"), from infundere ("to pour in").

A combination of "work" and "shop."

From Argentina plus the suffix -ian.

From up + side.

From Middle English payle (“bucket, pail, milking pail”), of uncertain origin. Likely from Old English pæġel (“wine vessel, container for liquids, pail; a liquid measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *pagil, from Proto-Indo-European *bak- (“peg, club”), equivalent to peg + -le. Compare West Frisian pegel (“liquid measure, fourth of a litre, half-pint”), German Pegel (“level of liquid, level”), Middle Dutch pegel (“half-pint”), Danish pægl (“half-pint”). Doublet of peil. Alternatively from Old French paielle (“frying pan, warming pan; a liquid measure”), from Latin patella (“small pan, shallow dish, platter”), diminutive of patina (“broad shallow pan, stewpan”). Perhaps a conflation of both.

From Old French commission, from Latin commissio ("a sending together"), from com- + missio ("sending").

From Old English hām, going back to a very old Indo-European root meaning "village" or "dwelling place."

From Old English brēowan, an ancient Germanic word for boiling or fermenting liquid, related distantly to the English word "burn".

From Middle English brewere, simply "one who brews", built from "brew" plus the agent suffix "-er".