Etymology — The origins of English words

From Latin augere, "to increase," via Old French augmenter.

From Old English lynis ("axle pin") combined with pin; the figurative sense of "essential connecting piece" developed in the 20th century.

From Swedish fil, a shortened form of filmjölk (soured milk); related to the Finnish word viili for the same drink.

From Middle English roobukke, joining roe (the deer) with buck (male deer).

From Latin aethēr, from Ancient Greek aithḗr (\"the upper air, sky\"), from aíthō (\"to burn, blaze\") — originally the imagined substance filling the heavens above the clouds.

From Old French/Anglo-Norman roots meaning roughly "blade protection," from Germanic words for "blade" and "shelter."

From Latin sal, "salt" — a doublet of the English word "salt" itself.

From Old Norse lypta ("to raise into the air"), related to the Germanic root for "air" — a "lift" was originally a raising into the sky.

A clipped, informal version of Lilian or Lillian.

The noun is derived from Middle English snaw, snou, snow (“snow; accumulation of snow; snowfall; snowstorm; whiteness”), from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw (“snow”), from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”). The verb is derived from Middle English snouen (“to snow; (figurative) to shower”), from snou, snow (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Displaced Old English snīwan, whence English snew (obsolete). Verb etymology 1, verb sense 2.3.2 (“to convince or hoodwink (someone)”) probably refers to a person being blinded or confused by a snowstorm. The adjective comes from the phrase a snowball's chance in hell, also see snowball clause at Wikipedia. Cognates * Scots snaw (“snow”) * Yola sneew, sneow, snow, snowe (“snow”) * North Frisian Sne, sni, snii, snii'e, snä, snäi (“snow”) * Saterland Frisian Snee (“snow”) * West Frisian snie (“snow”) * Alemannic German schnee, schnei, schnia, schné, schnìj (“snow”) * Bavarian schnea, sghneab (“snow”) * Cimbrian snea, snèa (“snow”) * Dutch snee, sneeuw (“snow”) * German Schnee (“snow”) * Limburgish Schnië, snieë (“snow

From Latin correctus, "made straight," from corrigere, "to make right" — from com- ("together") plus regere, "to rule or guide straight".

From Old Norse rotinn, "decayed," related to Old English rotian — the same root behind the verb "rot."

From Old English maniġ, ultimately from a Proto-Germanic root meaning "many" or "much" — related to similar words across most Germanic languages.

Borrowed from Scots, ultimately just a natural exclamation of surprise dating back centuries.

From Middle English no body, literally "not any person."

From Middle English sum body, literally "some body" — some + body.

From Old English nan, "not one," combining ne ("not") and one.

From Middle English sum on, "some one".

From Middle English everichon, an alteration influenced by "every."

From Latin volumen, "a roll" or "scroll," from volvere, "to roll" — ancient books were literally rolled scrolls before the codex format existed.

From Old French matiere, going back to Latin materia ("wood, substance"), itself related to mater ("mother") — the idea being of raw material as a source, the way a tree trunk is the "mother" of timber.

From Latin vacuum, "empty space," from vacuus ("empty"). The cleaning sense comes from the suction action of a vacuum cleaner, which mimics pulling air (and dirt) into an empty space.

From Old French espace, from Latin spatium, from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to stretch." It gradually replaced the native Old English word "rum," which survives today as "room."

From Middle English decresen, via Old French descreistre, ultimately from Latin decrescere.