Etymology — The origins of English words

From Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís, “elephant's trunk”) literally "means for taking food," from προ- (pro-, “before”) + βόσκω (bóskō, “to nourish, feed”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeh₃- from which also comes βοτάνη (botánē, “grass, fodder”).

From purblind + -ness.

From recusant + -cy.

From pus + bag.

French remémoration, or Latin rememoratio.

From ranch + girl.

From Latin prolegatus, from pro (“for”) + legatus (“legate”).

From recompense + -ation. Equivalent to re- + compensation.

Borrowed from French ratiocination, from Latin ratiōcinātiō (“argumentation, reasoning, ratiocination; a syllogism”), from ratiōcinātus (“reckoned”) + -tiō (suffix forming a noun relating to some action or the result of an action). Ratiōcinātus is the perfect passive participle of ratiōcinor (“to compute, reckon; to argue, infer”), from ratiō (“reason, explanation”) (from reor (“to calculate, reckon”), possibly from Proto-Italic *rēōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- (“to put in order”)) + -cinor, modelled after vāticinor (“to foretell, prophesy”), equivalent to ratiocinate + -ion.

From Latin prōpensus, perfect passive participle of prōpendeō.

From provision + -er.

See propagate and -ule.

From reciprocal + -ness.

From quay + side.

From Middle English rene, rein (“strip of land forming a boundary; furrow; barrier; embankment”), from Old Norse rein (“a strip of land”), from Proto-Germanic *rainō (“baulk, ridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to cut, tear, scratch”). Related to Icelandic rein, Danish ren, Dutch rein, reen (“berm”), German Rain (“narrow strip of land between two fields”).

Uncertain. First appears in the 1820s. Perhaps a diminutive of pun, a dialect variant of pound, the weight + -et. The suggestion that it is an eponym of Reginald Crundall Punnett (1875–1967), geneticist and grower of strawberries, is not chronologically possible. The suggestion it was an ancestor of his lacks evidence. Very likely to have originated from the french word bannette, wicker basket for bread proofing.

Borrowed from French railleur.

From rate + payer.

From prodigal + -ity, from Old French prodigalite, from Late Latin prodigalitas.

From Anglo-Norman prorogation, Middle French prorogation, and their source, Latin prōrogātiō (“extension, postponement”).

Borrowed from Japanese 連濁 (rendaku, “sequential voicing”).

From puerile + -ism.

From Middle English pustule, from Old French pustule, from Latin pustula (“inflamed sore, blister”).

From questionless + -ly.