Etymology — The Origins of English Words

From be- + ghast. Cognate with German begeistern (“to inspire, excite, thrill”).

From Late Middle English athwert, athirt, from a- (prefix meaning ‘in the direction of, toward’) + thwert (“crosswise; (cooking) across the grain”, adverb). Thwert is derived from thwert (“crosswise, transverse; counter, opposing; contrary, obstinate, stubborn”, adjective), borrowed from Old Norse þvert (“across, athwart”), originally the neuter form of þverr (“across, transverse”), from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross; adverse”) (altered or influenced by Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir; to swirl; to turn”)), from Proto-Germanic *þerh-, probably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”). The English word is analysable as a- (prefix meaning ‘in the direction of, toward’) + thwart (“placed or situated across something else”). Cognates * Scots athort (“athwart”)

From Middle English, from Old French Beauchamp.

From atypical + -ity.

From bashful + -ness.

From auto- + sarcophagy.

From augur + -ous.

From Batte, a Middle English pet-form of Bartholomew.

From Middle English Augustinen, from Latin Augustīniānus, from Augustīnus + -iānus, after Augustine of Hippo. By surface analysis, Augustine + -ian.

From beam + -ful.

Borrowed from French becquerel. Named after the French physicist Henri Becquerel.

From Sinhalese ආයුබෝවන් (āyubōwan).

From Middle English *bernis, *barnisch, from Old English *bearnisċ and Old Norse bernskr (“childish”), from Proto-Germanic *barniskaz (“childish”), equivalent to bairn + -ish. Cognate with Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (barnisks, “childish”).

Borrowed from New Latin audibilitās.

From Middle English beneficence, from Latin beneficentia.

From Middle English bicallen, bikallen, equivalent to be- + call.

From Middle English bicaren. Equivalent to be- + care.

From Middle English, from Old French Beauchamp.

From be- + bay (“to bend”), from Middle English beien, beȝen, from Old English bīeġan (“to bend, turn, turn back, incline, depress, abase, humiliate, subject, persuade, convert”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- + *baugijaną.

From auto- + sexuality.

From base + board.

From axe + man.

From baffle + gab, coined 1952.

From barn + -ie.