Etymology — The origins of English words

From Latin Loidēnsis (“of or from Leeds”), *Lādenses + -i- + -an, from Old English Loidis (“Leeds”).

Borrowed from Latin mangōnizō (“to adorn wares for sale”), from mangō (“dealer who adorns his wares to make them look more valuable”) (the source of English monger) + -izō (“-ize”).

Variant of Mahoney.

From log + -er.

From Marion + -etta.

Borrowed from Mandarin 廣州／广州 (Guǎngzhōu).

From Manchu + -istics, influenced by Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju).

From maple + -er.

From Middle English [Term?], a diminutive of the given name Luke.

From lace + wood.

From kit (“collection of parts”) + -er.

Borrowed from Japanese 後(こう)輩(はい) (kōhai, literally “later cohort”). Doublet of hoobae.

From live + -some. Compare lifesome.

From Latin lēnīt(us) (“softened”) + -ive, from lēniō (“to soften, soothe”), from lēnis (“soft”).

Borrowed from Middle French legier, from Old French legier, apparently from Late Latin *leviārium, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.

Borrowed from Cantonese 梁 (loeng⁴).

From Middle English kitelen, from Old English citelian (“to tickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *kitilōn, from Proto-Germanic *kitilōną, frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *kitōną (“to tickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *geyd- (“to stick, jab, tickle”). Cognate with Dutch kittelen, kietelen (“to tickle”), Low German kettelen, ketelen (“to tickle”), German kitzeln (“to tickle”), Icelandic kitla (“to tickle”), Swedish kittla, kittsla, Danish kilde and perhaps Old Armenian կիծ- (kic-, “to sting, bite”), but note that many such words are sound-symbolic. Compare tickle.

From Lucretius + -an.

From lav (“clipped form of lavatory”) + -y (“forming affectionate diminutives”).

From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al.

From match + -er. Cognate with Old Frisian mekere (“matchmaker”).

From location + -al.

From lab + -side.

From man + drill (“Mandrillus leucophaeus”). Displaced earlier English man-tiger. First attested in 1744.