Etymology — The Origins of English Words

Borrowed from German Schumann.

Borrowed from German Schubert.

From French marceline, from Latin marcidus (“withered”), from marcere (“to wither, shrivel”).

From an old form related to Old French getaison, "a throwing" — the same idea behind the more familiar word "jetsam."

From hare + the suffix -ish.

From spider plus man, popularized by the fictional superhero Spider-Man, who scales walls like a spider.

As a Scottish surname and place name, from Elgin, Moray, itself from Scottish Gaelic Eilginn.

A German surname for someone who lived in an area cleared by fire.

* As an English surname, variant of Mear, from the noun mere (both senses). * Also as an English surname, from Middle English mire, a borrowing from archaic French mire (“physician”). Compare Myer. * Also as an English name, from the noun mayor. Compare Mayor, Mair. * As a German and Dutch surname, variant of Meyer, Myers. * Also as a Dutch surname, variant of Maijer, from the noun maaier (“mower, reaper”). * As a French Canadian surname, variant of Maille, itself of Breton origin, from the adjective maget (“nourished”), from Proto-Celtic *maketi (“to raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, to raise”).

From German Schultheiß, "a mayor in medieval Germany."

Common German and Jewish surname, from the archaic Schulze (“mayor, headman”), similar to Schultheiß. Compare Schultz, and the common Slavic form Sulc, Szulc.

From Russian комсомол, an acronym for "Communist Union of Youth".

Borrowed from German Jung. Doublet of Young.

From French Marne; in the sense of the German town and the place in Iowa named after it, from German Marne.

A 20th-century invented name, likely blending "Tara" with names like "Karen."

Borrowed from German Dost ("wild thyme").

From Welsh, likely derived from an Old Welsh name meaning "white lady."

From Dot + -ie.

A straightforward compound of "hell" and "man".

From Old English wuduweard, "warden of the wood," combining "wood" and "ward" (guardian).

Derived from Taranto, the Italian city.

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Ibsen.

From pint + -er.

* Borrowed from Hebrew קֵינָן (qēnå̄n). * Alternatively, possibly a variant of Keenan, from Irish Cianán, a diminutive of Cian.