Etymology — The origins of English words

From "surrogate" + "-cy".

Formed from "still" (to calm or quiet) plus the agent suffix "-er."

From Spanish fonda, traced back through Arabic funduq ("inn") to an ancient Greek word for a guesthouse.

From bachelor + the feminine suffix -ette.

From "hay" (enclosure) plus "ward" (guardian) — someone who guarded the hedges and fields.

From Anglo-Norman mercer ("cloth merchant"), ultimately from Latin merx, "goods" or "merchandise."

From explore + the adjective ending -atory.

French diminutive of Pierre ("Peter") with the suffix "-ot".

Borrowed from French monorail, combining "mono-" (single) with "rail."

Formed from captivate (from Latin captivus, "captured, taken prisoner") plus the ending -ing.

Formed from "sponsor" plus the noun-forming suffix "-ship," as in "friendship" or "leadership."

From cat (old slang for a prostitute) + house.

The interjection is an application of the noun.

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Mathúna, earlier spelling Mac Mathghamhna (literally “son of the bear”), from Middle Irish mac (“son”) and mathgamain (“bear”).

A Spanish surname, borrowed into English mainly through the fame of the painter Pablo Picasso.

Possibly linked to "bouillon," the French word for broth, since the stew starts from a long-simmered meat-bone broth.

From spike (“kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense “having the quality of”). Spike is derived from Middle English spik, spike (“ear of grain; clove of garlic; plant having spikes; plant of the genus Valeriana, especially Valeriana officinalis; plant of the genus Lavandula, lavender”), from Latin spīca (“ear, head, or spike of grain; plant spike”) (feminine) (also rarely spīcum (neuter) and spīcus (masculine)), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“long; sharp; thin”).

From pep + -y.

A compound of "star" + "gazer" (one who gazes), literally "one who gazes at stars."

A Latinized form of the Occitan name Aloys, itself a variant of Louis.

A compound of "stomach" and "ache."

Formed from deduct + -ive.

A straightforward compound of steak + house.

Formed from steep + -er.