Etymology — The origins of English words

From Old French language, ultimately from Latin lingua, "tongue, speech."

An acronym for "laughing out loud," said to have been coined by a Canadian user named Wayne Pearson in the early-to-mid 1980s and first recorded in writing in 1989.

The calendar sense comes from Latin data, "given," from the Roman custom of writing a letter's place and time as "given at..." The fruit sense is unrelated, coming via Old French from Greek daktulos ("finger"), because a date resembles a finger.

Borrowed directly from Latin os, meaning "bone."

From Old English Ēadweard, combining ēad ("wealth, riches") and weard ("guard, protector") — literally "rich guardian."

From Old English six, tracing back to the ancient Proto-Indo-European word for the number, related to Latin sex and Greek hex.

From Middle English pissed, pissede, pyssyd, pisside, equivalent to piss + -ed.

From Middle English cod/codde, of murky origin — the fish sense may trace back to Greek gados via Latin, though the word has also historically meant a pouch or bag, unrelated senses that got tangled together over time.

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus ("harbour"). The "left side of a ship" sense arose because old vessels steered with an oar on the right and so had to dock on their left side.

Built from the prefix "a-" ("not, without") plus "moral" — the opposite is "immoral", which implies actively doing wrong rather than simply lacking any moral compass.

The "combined with" sense is a learned borrowing of the Latin word cum, meaning "with."

From Middle English rapen, rappen (“to abduct; ravish; seduce; rape; seize; snatch; carry off; transport”), probably from Latin rapiō (verb), possibly through or influenced by Anglo-Norman rap, rape (noun) (compare also ravish). But compare Swedish rappa (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), Low German rapen (“to snatch, seize”), Dutch rapen (“to pick up, gather, collect”); the relationship with Germanic forms is not clear. Cognate with Lithuanian reikėti (“to be in need”). Compare also rap (“seize, snatch”). Further, some senses may be from Etymology 3, an Old Norse word.

From Old English feortan, going back to a Proto-Indo-European root shared across many European languages — one of the oldest and most stable words in English.

From Medieval Latin biblicus, "of the Bible," plus the adjective ending "-al."

A compound of "mother" and "fucker", recorded since around 1918; the force of the insult comes from its literal implication of incest, though it's rarely meant that way today.

From dick + head, recorded from the 1960s onward as an insult.

Originally a pet form of the name Richard; the insulting and anatomical senses developed later as the name came to stand for "any man" or "everyman."

Traced to Middle English cunte, from an unrecorded Old English form going back to a Proto-Germanic root; it has close cousins in Frisian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic. A link to Latin cunnus has been suggested but never proven.

From French nègre and Spanish negro, both ultimately from Latin niger, "black." It was a neutral descriptive term in earlier centuries but became a term of contempt through its long association with slavery and racism, and by the 20th century had become a slur.

From Latin qualitas, coined by Cicero as a direct translation of the Greek poiotes, itself invented by Plato from poios, "of what kind."

From French métrique, from New Latin metricus, ultimately from Greek metron ("measure").

From French are, itself from Latin area, "open space."

From Old English "bēon," combined over time with two other Old English verbs ("wesan" and forms giving us "am," "is," "are") that all meant roughly "to exist" — which is why "be" has such an unusually irregular set of forms (am, is, are, was, were, been).

From Old English mann ("human being, person"), going back through Proto-Germanic to a Proto-Indo-European root simply meaning "human being" — the word originally covered both sexes before narrowing, in most uses, to mean an adult male.