Etymology — The Origins of English Words

From the Sharpie brand name, formed from sharp plus -ie.

Formed from "pea" plus the adjective-forming suffix "-y".

Short for the Latin word gutta, meaning "drop."

Borrowed from German Dören.

From German Kafka, from Czech German Kavka (“jackdaw”), from either Upper Sorbian or Lower Sorbian, which are ultimately from the Proto-Slavic *kavъka, imitating the call of a jackdaw. Compare Polish kawka, Czech kavka, Slovene kávka, all meaning “jackdaw”.

A blend of "Britain" and "exit", coined in 2012 by analogy with the earlier term "Grexit" (a hypothetical Greek exit from the eurozone).

Borrowed from Vietnamese Trang. Doublet of Zhuang.

Borrowed from Vietnamese Thi.

Romanization * From the McCune-Reischauer transliteration of Korean 정 (jeong), from Korean 鄭, 丁, 程. Doublet of Tee. * From transliteration of Chinese 宗, 程, 种, 仲, 钟, 鍾, 張, 张, 章, 蔣, 蒋, frequently originating from Hong Kong or Taiwan

From Hebrew מְטַטְרוֹן (Məṭaṭrôn), whose origin is obscure. Possibly from Hebrew מטרא (mattara) 'keeper of the watch.' The Greek/Latin form superficially appears to be a Greek compound meta-τρον (-tron), but that would not seem to make much sense semantically, meaning something like "among-tool." It has also been proposed that the Hebrew word actually does in turn originate from Greek, coming from μετά + θρόνος, with the "th" being transformed into a "t" as the word was repeatedly taken up by one language from another. A review by Hekhalot lists these two possibilities plus seven more.

* (name from Italian): Borrowed from Italian Gia * (name from Greek): Clipping of Georgia.

From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 曹 (Cáo).

Borrowed from Vietnamese Lý, a cognate of the Chinese-derived surname Lee.

Simply "cord" plus the adjective-forming suffix "-y", the same pattern as "silky" from silk.

Borrowed from Japanese 黒川 (Kurokawa).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 容 (Róng).

Probably from the name Crandall.

Borrowed from Arabic hamada, a term for a barren rocky plateau.

Borrowed from German Steiner.

From Mandarin 嵐 /岚 (Lán).

From pip + -y.

From bolt, ultimately from Old English bolt, "arrow" or "short metal rod" — the mnemonic sense is a modern classroom invention using the initials of five mapping elements.

Clipping of Wozniak.

Reduced variant of Wiltshire. The Los Angeles neighborhood is named for Wilshire Boulevard.