Etymology — The origins of English words

From Latin evaporare, "to disperse in vapor" — from ex- ("out") plus vapor ("steam, vapor").

From Middle French condenser, from Latin condensare ("to make dense").

From Old English meltan and mieltan, both meaning "to melt," going back to a Proto-Germanic root shared with words for digesting — melting and digesting were once seen as the same kind of "breaking down."

From Greek plasma, "something molded or formed," via Late Latin.

From Old French solide, from Latin solidus ("solid, whole").

From Latin liquidus ("fluid, clear"), from liquere ("to be fluid").

From Old English lif, going back to a Proto-Germanic root related to "remaining" or "staying" — the same deep root that gives us "leave" and "belief."

From live + the suffix -ing.

From Old English brad, meaning wide or spacious — an ancient Germanic word found in similar forms across many related languages.

From Old English hēah, going back through Proto-Germanic to a very old root meaning "to bend" — the same distant root that gave the name Caucasus (mountains that "bend upward").

From Old English wīd ("wide, vast, distant"), from an ancient root meaning "to separate" — the same root that gives us the word divide.

From Old English nearu, "narrow, confined", tracing back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to twist or constrict".

From Middle English schalowe, related to Old English sceald ("shallow").

From Old English sceort, sċort ("short"), from a Proto-Germanic root — a doublet of "shirt", "skirt", and "curt".

From Middle English tall, originally meaning "seemly, handsome, or bold" rather than referring to height; the height-related meaning developed later, in an unusual shift for an adjective.

From Old English long, lang ("long, tall, lasting"), from Proto-Germanic *langaz, ultimately from a very old Indo-European root also behind Latin longus.

From Old Norse lagr, "low, lying flat," related to the verb "lie."

From Old English liste ("edge, border, strip") — the sense of an enumerated set of items developed later from the idea of items arranged in a row.

From Old French juge, from Latin iudex.

From an Old French word of uncertain origin, possibly linked to Latin words for "joy" or "joke" — the exact root is debated by historians.

From Old French dangier, originally meaning "power" or "dominion" before it came to mean "peril" — ultimately from Latin dominus ("lord, master").

From Old French joindre, from Latin iungere, "to yoke or connect" — the same root as "junction" and "yoke."

From Middle English ells, elles, from Old English elles (“other, otherwise, different”), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas, from Proto-Germanic *aljas (“of another, of something else”), genitive of *aljaz (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos, from *h₂el- (“other”). Cognate with Old Frisian elles (“other”), Old High German elles, ellies (“other”), Danish eller (“or”), Danish ellers (“otherwise”), Swedish eljes, eljest (“or else, otherwise”), Norwegian elles (“else, otherwise”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌹𐍃 (aljis, “other”), Latin alius (“other, another”), Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos), Arcadocypriot αἶλος (aîlos), modern Greek αλλιώς (alliós, “otherwise, else”), Proto-Slavic *olni.

From Old English trēowe, "faithful, trustworthy," from a Germanic root meaning "firm" or "hard" — the sense of factual accuracy grew out of the older idea of being reliable and trustworthy.