Etymology — The Origins of English Words

Coined by Torii Ryūzō in 1897. Possibly related to English Y'Ami Island and Spanish Diami, which early 1800s Spanish texts refer to as the name of a populated island of the Batanes Islands north of the Babuyan Islands, whose natives were at war with those of the other Batanes Islands who do not receive them except during storms or when the sea currents lead them to their islands, which in that case, they also don't let them go beyond the beaches. In 1802, Fr. Francisco de Paula Esteban O.P. also referred to Diami as the northernmost island in the Batanes Archipelago that people were moving to. See also Ibatan di- (qualitative prefix, indicating that someone or something possesses the quality of the word being prefixed), Ibatan ammyānan (“north”), Ibatan ammyan (“northeast monsoon; rainy season”), Ivatan amyan (“northeast monsoon; rainy season”), Ilocano amianan (“north”), Sakizaya amis (“north”), Amis amis (“north”), Central Bikol amihan (“north”), Cebuano amihanan (“north”), Tagalog amihan (“northeast monsoon”), Hiligaynon amihan (“north wind”), Proto-Austronesian *qamiS (“north wind”), Proto-Austronesian *i (location marker), Japanese 闇(やみ) (yami).

Borrowed from Hindi bhāskar, meaning "sun" or "giver of light."

Transliteration of Gujarati સંજાણા (sañjāṇā).

Borrowed from Japanese 銀座(ぎんざ) (Ginza).

Clipping of Daphne.

Borrowed from French Landru.

An altered form of "Gemini," itself an old mild exclamation.

Genericized trademark. Likely from Ilocano yóyo or another Philippine cognate.

From Arabic shakira, "grateful."

A compound of "star" + "fleet," popularized by the Star Trek franchise as the name of its fictional space-faring organization.

Likely related to the Malay word candu, meaning opium.

Possibly from Marathi वांदर (vāndar, “monkey”) or Persian بندر (bandar, “port, harbour”).

From Hindi मीना (mīnā), from Sanskrit मीन (mīna, "fish").

Borrowed from French Montparnasse.

Said to come from a playful mangling of the phrase "he's odd."

Heterographic variant of Westmoor.

From "blooming" (flowering) plus "dale" (valley).

From Mandarin 歐陽 /欧阳 (Ōuyáng).

From Latin nemo ("no one"); the clownfish sense comes from the character Nemo in the animated film Finding Nemo.

Romanization (Hanyu Pinyin) of the Mandarin pronunciation of the Chinese character 媯/妫 (Guī).

Borrowed from Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma).

Borrowed from Japanese 昭和 (Shōwa).

Clipping of Barbara + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

From George plus the diminutive suffix -y.