Etymology — The origins of English words

From material + -ization and materialize + -ation.

From the given name Luke.

From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”), Danish mageløs (“matchless”).

Borrowed from French Limousin, from Latin Lemovicinus, adjective form of Lemovices, name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm.

Variant of Moffat.

From Middle English mastik, from Old French mastic, from Latin mastiche, from Ancient Greek μαστίχη (mastíkhē), from μαστιχάω (mastikháō, “to chew”) (note the chewing gum sense). Related to masticate. The broad sense for cements came via extension from predecessor cements made with the tree's resin. Doublet of mastika.

From mash (“to convert into a mash; to mix thoroughly”) + up.

From Ancient Greek μάστιξ (mástix, “whip, scourge”) + -ote.

From Latin malefaciō.

From live + -ware (after software, hardware).

Variant of Lachlan.

From lighthearted (adjective) (any sense) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).

From Spanish la reata (“the lasso”).

From legion + -ary. From Latin legiōnārius. Doublet of legionnaire.

From Medieval Latin mandragora, from Latin mandragorās.

Borrowed from Mandarin 膾 /脍 (kuài).

From Latin manūfactus + English -ory.

From lime + scale.

By surface analysis, loc(al) + -o- + region + -al.

From Middle English limnen, limyne, lymm, lymn, lymne (“to illuminate (a manuscript)”), a variant of luminen (“to illuminate (a manuscript)”), short form of enluminen (“to shed light on, illuminate; to enlighten; to make bright or clear; to give colour to; to illuminate (a manuscript); to depict, describe; to adorn or embellish with figures of speech or poetry; to make famous, glorious, or illustrious”), from Old French enluminer (“to brighten, light up; to give colour to; to illuminate (a manuscript)”), from Latin illūminō (“to brighten, light up; to adorn; to make conspicuous”), from il- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside’)) + lūminō (“to brighten, illuminate; to reveal”) (from lūmen (“light; (poetic) brightness”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine; to see”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

From Latin longaevus, from longus (“long”) + aevum (“age”).

From legitimate + -ness.

From Latin lambēns, present participle of lambō (“lick”).

Probably a variant of Dutch Manes.