Etymology — The Origins of English Words

From edge (“the limit of acceptable behavior”) + -lord

farmyard + -y

From Late Middle English executrice, executrix (“female executor; administrator of the law; wielder of fate”), from Medieval Latin execūtrīx (possibly through Anglo-Norman *executrice) from execūtor, exsecūtor (“accomplisher, performer; prosecutor, revenger”), + Latin -trīx (suffix forming feminine agent nouns). Exsecūtor is derived from Latin exsequor (“to follow after thoroughly, pursue persistently; (figurative) to execute, perform; to pursue with vengeance, avenge”) (from ex- (intensifying prefix) + sequor (“to follow, pursue”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”))) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns). By surface analysis, execute + -trix (suffix forming feminine agent nouns).

The verb is from Middle English empanellen, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empaneller.

From Old English Eþandūn.

From French féculence, from Latin faeculentia. Doublet of feculency.

From Old English andlang ( > along), re-formed by popular etymology in Middle English as end + long; partly from Old Norse cognate endlangr.

Phonetic rendering of for.

From escalate + -ory.

From face + palm. Attested since at least 2001.

From early + comer.

From eld + -en (“to become”). Compare Middle English elden, ealdien (“to age, grow older”). More at eld.

Variant of Falconer.

Borrowed from Latin excrētum, past participle of excernō, from ex- (“out”), and cernō (“separate”).

Claimed to be a respelling of the abbreviation airc for aircraftsman; or else from irk.

Latin exsuccus, from ex- + succus ‘juice’.

From em- + bay + -ment.

From Middle English falsedom, falsdom, equivalent to false + -dom.

Latin emporeticus.

From enclose + -er.

Borrowed from Latin epocha or German Epoche, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ). Doublet of epoch. This term was introduced by Husserl and other phenomenologists, although it also seems to be present in Aristotelian philosophy (as the concept did originate with Aristotle).

From Latin dulcificō.

From Latin empyreus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios, “fiery”), from ἐν (en, “en-”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) (English pyre).

From eudaemonic + -ally.