Etymology — The origins of English words

From story plus line.

From sub- ("below") plus title.

From anorexia plus the adjective suffix -ic.

From autism plus the adjective-forming suffix -istic. The clinical sense was first used in 1913 and refined by psychiatrist Leo Kanner in 1943.

* As an English surname, from the place on the bank of the Thames, derived from the root of the noun barn. * Also as an English surname, variant of Barne, from both a Middle English personal name from Old Norse Bjǫrn and Old English Beorn, and from the noun barn (“child”). Semantically compare Child. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), a byname from bior (“spear”). * As a French surname, variant of Bernes, from a short form of a Germanic name derived from Frankish *berō (“bear”), similar to Bernhard. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Parnes, from Yiddish פּרנס (prns), from Hebrew פַּרְנָס (“leader of a Jewish community, provider”).

From the Scottish surname Campbell, itself from Gaelic caimbeul, "crooked mouth". The duck breed was named after its developer, Adele Campbell.

Borrowed from German Wilhelmina, equivalent to Wilhelm + -ina.

From Old English, "the Roman fort on the River Lune," from Lune plus ceaster ("town").

A learned borrowing from Latin nutritius, related to nutrire, "to nourish".

From boast plus the suffix -ful.

From apt plus the adverb-forming suffix -ly.

Shortened from the phrase "treasure trove," where French trouvé, "found," was mistakenly treated as part of an English noun.

Formed in Middle English from "two" plus the old suffix "-some," which is also seen in words like "foursome" and "handsome."

Formed from legal plus the noun suffix -ity.

From Middle English forms of "book" plus "mark," first used for a physical page marker before being borrowed for the digital shortcut.

From Middle French coutelas, from Old French coutel, "knife," with an augmentative ending meaning roughly "big knife."

From Hindi दिवाली (divālī), from Sanskrit दीपावलि (dīpāvali), literally "row of lights".

From the phrase "blood shed," using "shed" as the past participle of "shed" (to spill).

Originally a trademarked brand name for this type of jacket, from wind + breaker.

Borrowed from Spanish armada ("fleet, navy"), ultimately from Latin arma ("weapons, arms") — it shares a root with the English word "army."

From Old English bulluc, from bull + the diminutive suffix -ock.

A shortened, informal form of "carnival," with the "-y" ending common in casual nicknames.

Named after Nicolas Chauvin, a (possibly legendary) French soldier famous for his fanatical devotion to Napoleon; the word later broadened from extreme patriotism to any excessive, biased loyalty, especially "male chauvinist" for sexist men.

Formed from "child" plus the suffix -less, meaning "without."