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redargue
From Late Middle English redarguen, redargue (“to defeat (someone) in an argument; to rebuke, reprove”), from Middle French redarguer and Old French redargüer (“to disprove, refute; to accuse, blame; to rebuke, reprove”) (modern French rédarguer), and from their etymon Latin redarguere (“to disprove, refute”) (compare Late Latin redarguere (“to rebuke, reprove”)), the present active infinitive of redarguō (“to disprove, refute; to contradict”), from red- (a variant of re- (prefix meaning ‘again’)) + arguō (“to assert, declare; to clarify, make plain; to prove, show; to accuse, charge with; to censure, rebuke, reprove; to blame; to denounce as false”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“argent, white; glittering”), in the sense of casting light on something to make it clear). Doublet of argue.
Cognates
* Catalan redargüir
* Italian redarguire
* Old Occitan redarguir
* Portuguese redargüir
* Spanish redargüir
if you please
The construction is unusual since the infinitive to please originally meant only “to satisfy”, not “to be satisfied”. One solution entails interpreting you as an object pronoun and please as a verb in the third-person singular subjunctive, such that if you please actually meant if it may please you. The according constructions if thee please, if him please, if them please, etc., are indeed attestable. However, if this approach is correct, the reinterpretation of the pronoun as the subject of the phrase must be very old as we also find if thou please and so on. A second hypothesis construes "if you please" as an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it pleases you which is a calque of French s'il vous plaît. Alternatively, if you please may be a bastardization of if you'd please, which is an abbreviation of if you would please be so kind, wherein please constitutes an adverb, not a verb.
understandingly
From Middle English undirstondingli, understandandly, equivalent to understanding + -ly.
health fund
Calque of German Krankenkasse, from kranken (“sick, unwell”) + Kasse (“fund”).
rhabdomyoma
After German Rhabdomyoma; equivalent to rhabdo- + myoma.
shipmaster
From Middle English schypmayster, schypmester, equivalent to ship + master.
Jacobson
From Jacob + -son. From Middle English Jacobson. Medieval English patronymic surname "son of Jacob".
In the U.S. adopted by immigrants with similar family names, such as Swedish Jakobsson, Danish and Norwegian Jacobsen (or Jakobsen).
phalacrosis
From Ancient Greek φαλακρός (phalakrós).
Zoroaster
Learned borrowing from Latin Zōroastrēs, from Ancient Greek Ζωροάστρης (Zōroástrēs), from Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 (zaraθuštra). Doublet of Zarathustra.
Zarathustra
From German Zarathustra, from Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 (zaraθuštra). Doublet of Zoroaster.
mendicate
Borrowed from Latin mendīcātus, perfect passive participle of mendīcō (“to beg”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Calque from Latin expressions such as equi dentes inspicere donati (“to inspect the teeth of a provided horse”) in St. Jerome's c. 400 Preface to the Commentaries of the Letter to the Ephesians (Commentariorum in Epistolam ad Ephesios Libri Tres), which designates it as a "common proverb" (vulgare proverbium). The ultimate referrent is inspection of horses' teeth as a way of ascertaining their age and value.
krumkake
Unadapted borrowing from Norwegian krumkake (“curved cake”). Compare Middle English crumcake, cramkake (“loaf of unleavened bread; a twisted or crumpled cake”).
coast
From Middle English coste (“rib; side of the body”), from Old French coste (“rib; side of an object; coast”) (modern French côte (“rib; coast; hill, slope”)), from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”). Doublet of costa.
Compare typologically cape < Latin caput, ness (akin to nose), Bulgarian нос (nos, “nose; …; cape, promontory, foreland, gore”), Macedonian ’рт (’rt), Serbo-Croatian рт (“cape, promontory, headland”) < Proto-Slavic *rъtъ (whence Russian рот (rot)).
Etymology tree
Latin costa
Latin costicāreder.
Old French costoierbor.
Middle English costeien
English coast
From Middle English costeien (“to travel along a border or coast; to go alongside (something), skirt; to accompany, follow; to travel across, traverse; to be adjacent to, to border;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], Old French costoier (“to be at the side of”) […] (modern French côtoyer (“to pass alongside; (figuratively) to rub shoulders”)), from Latin costicāre, from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”); see further at etymology 1.
wood ear
Calque of Chinese 木耳 (mù'ěr)
Austronesia
Back-formation from Austronesian (from Latin austro- (“southern”) + Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, “island”) + -ia).
sayang
* (Singaporean and Malaysian English): Borrowed from Malay sayang.
* (Philippine English): Borrowed from Tagalog sayang.
petit four
Unadapted borrowing from French petit four (literally “small oven”).
eosin
Borrowed from German Eosin, coined by Heinrich Caro, from Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + -in.
syntagmatic
From French syntagmatique, from Ancient Greek συνταγμᾰτικός (suntagmătikós).
simit
Borrowed from Turkish simit (“simit”), Ottoman Turkish سمید (simit), from Classical Persian سَمِید (samīd, “semolina”), from Arabic سَمِيد (samīd, “semolina”), from Aramaic סְמִידָא / ܣܡܻܝܕܳܐ (səmīḏā), from Akkadian 𒆠𒅔𒆠𒅔𒄯𒄯 (/⁠samīdu⁠/, “a type of fine groats, coarse flour, semolina”), related to Akkadian 𒀀𒊏𒄯𒄯 (/⁠samādu⁠/, “to grind fine”).
bengaline
From French bengaline, from its resemblance to a kind of fabric imported from Bengal.
jass
Borrowed from Alemannic German Jass.
Borrowed from German Jass, possibly a short form of a Slavic surname.
murali
Likely borrowed from Tamil முளரி (muḷari, “bramble”).
maguey
Borrowed from Spanish maguey, from Taíno *mawei.
twelfty
From twelve + -ty, from Old English hundtwelftiġ. Compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatig, hundniġontiġ and hundtēontiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety and one hundred, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system. This hund was used for counting higher decades, and eventually became the root of hundred. Hund originally meant 120 (now called a long hundred or great hundred, and preserved in the term hundredweight), but was used to translate multiples of Latin centum (“100”), and eventually picked up that value when used in isolation as well.
stabat mater
Borrowed from Latin stabat mater (“the mother was standing”) (the first words of the hymn).
nopal
From Spanish nopal, from Classical Nahuatl nohpalli (“Opuntia cactus”). Compare nopales.
opopanax
Borrowed from Latin opopanax, from Hellenistic Greek ὀποπάναξ (opopánax), from Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós, “vegetable juice”) + πάναξ (pánax, “any of several plants believed to have medicinal benefits”).
vervain
From Middle English verveyne, from Old French verveine, from Latin verbēna. Doublet of verbena.
aiguillette
Borrowed from French aiguillette, from Middle French aiguillette, from Old French aguillete. Doublet of aglet and aiglet.
napery
From Middle English naperie, from Anglo-Norman naperie, Middle French naperie, from Old French nape + -erie.
pentimento
[Alt: A blue-tinted painting of a man's bent neck, with a faint image of a woman's face in its background]
Learned borrowing from Italian pentimento (“repentance, penance, penitence; remorse; change of opinion; correction; traces of a previous image or work in an artwork”), from pentìrsi (“to repent; to regret”) + -mento (suffix forming nouns representing the actions of verbs to which it is attached). Pentìrsi is derived from Latin paenitēre, the present active infinitive of paeniteō (“to cause to repent; to repent; to be sorry, regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate; to hurt”).
nonresident
From Middle English non-resident, nounresident, equivalent to non- + resident.
muscimol
From German Muscimol, from Latin musc(arius) (in Amanita muscaria) + im(ine) + -ol.
ibotenic
From Japanese イボテングタケ (ibotengutake, “Amanita ibotengutake (syn. Amanita strobiliformis)”), from which it was first isolated.
solanaceous
From modern Latin Solanaceae, from Latin solanum (“nightshade”).
toloache
Borrowed from Spanish toloache, from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin, from toloa (“to bow the head”) + tzin (reverential). Doublet of toloatzin.
toloatzin
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin. Doublet of toloache.
pentimenti
Learned borrowing from Italian pentimenti, from pentimento + -i (the plural form of -o (suffix forming masculine singular nouns).
aggry
From Hindi कौड़ी (kauṛī, “cowrie”).
tzitzit
Learned borrowing from Hebrew צִיצִית (tsitsít).
toyi-toyi
Seemingly from Northern Ndebele [Term?], but the ultimate origin is unclear.
howzit
Contraction of how is it?
In South Africa, possibly a calque of Flemish Dutch hoe is 't?.
Kingdom of Heaven
Inherited from Middle English kingdom of hevene, kingdom of hevenes, a calque of Ancient Greek Βασιλεία τῶν Οὐρανῶν (Basileía tôn Ouranôn), from the Gospel of Matthew.
Mencius
From Latin Mencius, from Mandarin Chinese 孟子 (Mèngzǐ).
transformative
From Medieval Latin transformātīvus (“transformative”), from Latin trānsfōrmātus (“transformed”) + -īvus (suffix attached to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming deverbal adjectives meaning ‘doing or related to doing [the verb]’). Trānsfōrmātus is the perfect passive participle of trānsfōrmō (“to transform”), from trāns- (prefix meaning ‘across; beyond; through’) + fōrmō (“to fashion, form, format, shape”) (from fōrma (“appearance, figure, form, shape”); further etymology unknown, perhaps related to Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “a form, shape”)). The English word is analysable as transform + -ative.
cothurnus
Learned borrowing from Latin cothurnus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos).
Elysian
From Latin Elysium (from Ancient Greek Ἠλύσιον (Ēlúsion, “Elysium; one of the Elysian Fields”)) + -an (adjective-forming suffix).
embarge
From Spanish embargar 'to arrest' and English barge 'to force'.
bozal
From Spanish bozal (“recently-imported slave; noseband”). Doublet of bossale and bosal.
bay window
From Middle English baywyndow, baywyndowe, bay-windowe, equivalent to bay + window where bay refers to an opening between columns.
brisling
From Norwegian brisling and Danish brisling, from Low German bretling, from bret (“broad”), from Middle Low German *brêd, from Old Saxon brēd.
warcraft
From Middle English werrecraft, equivalent to war + -craft (skill) or war + -craft (vehicle).
administratrix
From New Latin administrātrīx. By surface analysis, administrator + -trix.
allocable
By surface analysis, allocate + -able, on model of Latin allocare, rather than from allocate.
double-tongued
From Middle English doubultongud, dowbyl townged, dubble tungyd, equivalent to double + tongued.
catachresis
Learned borrowing from Latin catachrēsis, borrowed from Ancient Greek κατάχρησις (katákhrēsis, “misuse (of a word)”).
nautch
Borrowed from Hindustani नाच / ناچ (nāc).
lazaret
Borrowed from French lazaret, from Italian lazzareto (archaic), lazzaretto, lazzeretto; see further at lazaretto. Doublet of lazaretto.
furoshiki
From Japanese 風呂(ふろ)敷(しき) (furoshiki).
keratitis
Probably borrowed from French kératite, from Ancient Greek κέρᾰτ- (kérăt-), κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + French -ite (“-itis”); see kerato-.
eldership
From elder + -ship. The Lithuanian sense is a calque of Lithuanian seniūnija.
peau de soie
From French peau de soie (“skin of silk”), perhaps originally a trademark.
guipure
Borrowed from French guipure, from guiper (“to cover with silk”), ultimately borrowed from Frankish *wīpan (“to wind, wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wīpaną (“to wind, wrap”). Related to English wimple.
Rehe
From the atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 熱河 /热河 (Rèhé, “Hot Creek”), from a nearby river that did not typically freeze over during the winters.
hydrophobe
Borrowed from French hydrophobe, from Latin hydrophobus, from Ancient Greek ὑδροφόβος (hudrophóbos), from ὑδρο- (hudro-, “water”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear, dread”).
vetiver
From French vétyver (older spelling) or vétiver, from Tamil வெட்டிவேர் (veṭṭivēr).
cross-
From Middle English cros-, crosse- (“relating to a cross, forming a cross, in the shape of a cross or x”), from the noun (see cross) and also from across.
hosing
From Middle English hosinge, hosiinge, hosiynge, equivalent to hose + -ing.
hosen
From Middle English hosen, from Old English hosan (“hosen, leggings, trousers”), plural of hosa (“hose, legging, stocking”); reinforced by German Hosen (“trousers, pants”). Equivalent to hose + -en (plural ending).
banquet
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian banco
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Italian -etto
Italian banchettoder.
Middle French banquetbor.
Middle English banket
English banquet
From Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic *bank, *panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benċ (“bench”). More at bank, bench. The unetymological /w/ resulted from spelling-pronunciation.
Apollyon
From Ancient Greek Ἀπολλύων (Apollúōn, “Apollyon, the destroyer”), from ἀπόλλυμι (apóllumi, “utterly destroy”) via phono-semantic matching with Biblical Hebrew אֲבַדּוֹן (ʾaḇaddôn, “destruction, ruin”).
nematic
From Ancient Greek νήματος (nḗmatos), genitive of νῆμα (nêma, “thread”).
licker
From Middle English likkere, lykkare, equivalent to lick + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Läkker, Dutch likker, German Low German Licker, German Lecker.
decrepitate
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dēcrepitātus, perfect passive participle of dēcrepitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin dē- + crepitō.
prophetize
From Middle English prophetise, from Old French prophetisier, from Latin prophētizō, from Ancient Greek προφητίζω (prophētízō, “to prophesy”). By surface analysis, prophet + -ize.
panicle
Borrowed from Latin pānicula, diminutive of pānus (“ear of millet, literally 'thread wound on a bobbin'”), from Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”), πηνίον (pēníon, “bobbin”). Doublet of panocha.
Avinash
From Hindi अविनाश (avināś, “indestructible”).
remand
From Middle English remaunden (“to send back”), from Middle French remander (“to send back”), from Late Latin remandare (“to send backward”), from Latin remandare (“to order”). Compare countermand.
Elfreda
From Old English Ælfþrȳþ (from ælf (“elf”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)); later partly merged with æþel (“noble”) + þrȳþ (“strength”) ( =Audrey).
conflagrate
First attested in 1657; borrowed from Latin cōnflāgrātus, perfect passive participial of cōnflāgrō (“to be consumed by fire; (rare) to set aflame”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Pirani
Borrowed from either Italian Pirani or Persian پیرانی; the gauge is named after Marcello Stefano Pirani, a German physicist (1880–1968).
smectic
From Latin smecticus, from Ancient Greek σμηκτικός (smēktikós), from σμήχειν (smḗkhein, “to wipe, to cleanse”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”).
cheesemaker
From Middle English chese-maker, chese-makere, equivalent to cheese + maker. Displaced Old English ċīeswyrhta.
Losari
From Old Javanese losari, meaning "the spirit of the trees", or "the spirit of Earth".
valley of the shadow of death
From Psalm 23 of the Book of Psalms. "Shadow of death" is a calque of Hebrew צלמות.
grissino
From Italian grissino, from Piedmontese grissin, ghërsin, diminutive of ghersa (“line, row”).
chokey
Borrowed from Hindi चौकी (caukī) and Urdu چَوکی (caukī, “post, police station, etc.”).
granger
From Middle English graunger, from Anglo-Norman granger, variant of Old French grangier, from grange, perhaps corresponding to Medieval Latin granicārium, from Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin granum.
bookman
From Middle English bocman, from Old English bōcmann (“bookman, a holder of bookland”), equivalent to book + man.
sicker
Inherited from Middle English siker, sikker, sykkere, secre, seccre, from Old English sēocra (“sicker”), equivalent to sick + -er.
From Middle English siker, from Old English sicer, sicor, from Proto-West Germanic *sikur (“free, secure”), from Latin sēcūrus (“secure”, literally “without care”). Doublet of sure and secure.
Inherited from Middle English *sikeren (attested only as sikeriez (“(it) trickles, (it) leaks, (it) oozes”)), from Old English sicerian (“to ooze, seep”), from Proto-West Germanic *sikarōn, from Proto-Germanic *sikarōną (“to trickle”), from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow running water”). Cognate with German Low German sickern (“to seep”), German sickern (“to seep, trickle”). Akin also to English sitch.
absurdum
Borrowed from Latin absurdum, neuter singular of absurdus (“discordant, harsh”).
booker
From Middle English bokere, from Old English bōcere (“scribe”), equivalent to book + -er. Modern sense influenced by the verb to book.
Busse
From the German surname, spelling variant of Buss, itself a pet form of Burkhard. Also from a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box, firelock”).
boatwright
From Middle English botwright, botwrythe, equivalent to boat + wright.
slimeball
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sley-
Proto-Germanic *slīmą
Old English slīm
English slime
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Germanic *balluz
Old English *beall
Middle English bal
English ball
English slimeball
From slime + ball. Sense 1 (“a round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime-like substance”) is a calque of German Schleimkugel, from Schleim (“mucus, slime”) + Kugel (“ball”), while sense 1.1 (“a mucus-coated lump containing the cercariae of a liver fluke”) may be a calque of German Schleimball (from Schleim (“slime”) + Ball (“ball”)).
pomate
From Medieval Latin pomatum (“cider, ointment”) either directly or via slightly earlier English pomatum, from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”) + -ātum (“-ate: forming nouns”). Doublet of pomatum, pomade, and pomace.
bocal
Borrowed from French bocal. Doublet of boccale and pokal.
exenterate
Learned borrowing from Latin exenterātus, perfect passive participle of exenterō (“to disembowel”). First attested in 1607.
dyke
A variant of dike, from Northern Middle English dik and dike (“ditch”), from Old Norse díki (“ditch”). Influenced by Middle Dutch dijc (“ditch; dam”) and Middle Low German dīk (“dam”). See also ditch.
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dīkiją (“trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“stick into, pierce; dig, stick a spade into”). The semantic evolution (also seen in several cognate words) was from "stick (a spade) into" to "dig" to "hole or other product of digging", "excavation", then the ridge of earth created when excavating a ditch, then to a ridge of earth intended to prevent flooding.
* As an English surname, from the noun dyke.
* As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Dijk (also compare Dyck).
felo de se
From Latin felō (“felon”) dē (“of”) sē (“himself”).
polyandrion
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολυάνδριον (poluándrion).
black lead
In the sense of lead, calque of Latin plumbum nigrum (“lead”, literally “black lead”).
dictature
From Middle English dictature, from Middle French dictature and its etymon Classical Latin dictātūra. By surface analysis, dictate + -ure.
rogatory
Borrowed 1750 from French rogatoire, from Medieval Latin rogātōrius (“interrogatory”), from rogō (“to ask, enquire”). By surface analysis, Latin rog- + -ate + -ory.
blive
From Middle English blive (“actively, vigorously, eagerly, gladly, quickly, at once”), with unsyncopated alternative form bilive. The adverb is from a contraction of by /bi + live (dative form of lyf, "life"), literally, "by life".
fals
From Arabic فَلْس (fals), from Aramaic פילס / ܦܠܣ / פולסא / ܦܘܠܣܐ (/⁠fuləsā, filas⁠/), from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis. Doublet of follis and fool.
forcast
From Middle English forcasten (“to cast away, reject”). Cognate with Swedish förkasta (“to reject”). Cf. forcasten. By surface analysis, for- + cast.
From Middle English forcast, variant of forecast.
kkwaenggwari
Borrowed from Korean 꽹과리 (kkwaenggwari).
pavonazzetto
Borrowed from Italian pavonazzetto, from pavonazzo + -etto.
koumiss
Via French koumis, German Kumiss, from Russian кумы́с (kumýs), borrowed from a Turkic source. Compare Tatar кымыз (qımız), Kazakh қымыз (qymyz), Kyrgyz кымыз (kımız), Northern Altai кымыс (kïmïs), Turkish kımız, Azerbaijani qımız.
pilsner
From German Pilsner, from Pilsen, the Bohemian city where the beer was first developed.
tropology
From Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek τροπολογία (tropología), equivalent to trope + -ology.
yestereve
From Middle English yester even, yistreven, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + eve (“evening”).
Marxism-Leninism
Borrowed from Russian марксизм-ленинизм (marksizm-leninizm). By surface analysis, Marxism + Leninism.
timur
Borrowed from Nepali तिमुर (timura).
From Turkish Timur and other languages, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *temür (“iron”).
rhonchus
Borrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus), of imitative origin.
Northman
From north + man. From Old English Norþmann, from norþ+mann. Doublet of Norman.
unbearded
From Middle English *unberded, from Old English unġebeard, unġebearde, equivalent to un- + bearded.
unbury
From Middle English unburien, unbirien, from Old English *unbyrġan (compare Old English unbyrġed (“unburied”)), equivalent to un- + bury.
ayah
From various Indian languages (e.g. Hindi आया (āyā, “dry nurse, nanny”)), from Portuguese aia (“nurse, governess”), from Latin avia (“grandmother”).
Borrowed from Arabic آيَة (ʔāya, “sign, token”).
Franconia
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Franconia, from Francō (“Frank”), from Frankish *Frankō (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô.
Franken
* Dutch Franken
* German Franken
* Yiddish [Term?] (Franken)
whatso
From Middle English whatso, from Old English hwæt swā; equivalent to what + so.
basketful
From Middle English basket ful, baskett full, equivalent to basket + -ful.
Reds
In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin russātī (“Reddish-Brown-Clads”) or factio russata (“the reddish-brown-clad faction”) and Byzantine Greek Ῥούσιοι (Rhoúsioi, “Reds”).
betides
From Middle English be- + tide (“time”) + -s. Compare Saterland Frisian bietiede (“from time to time; now and then”), German beizeiten (“early; betimes”), Swedish bitti (“early (in the day)”).
enoki mushroom
From Japanese 榎茸 (enokitake), from 榎 (enoki, “Chinese hackberry”) + 茸 (take, “mushroom”), it being a mushroom that grows on stumps of the tree.
Godwin
From Old English Godwine (“God's friend”). The component -win is from Old English wine (“friend”).
The second meaning is named after Michael Wayne Godwin (born 1956), American attorney and author.
Sullivan
Clipping of O'Sullivan. From Irish Ó Súilleabháin.
Gideon
Borrowed from Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן (gid'ón, “Gideon”) ("feller", "hewer", "mighty warrior").
dight
From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-West Germanic *dihtōn (“to compose; invent”), of disputed origin. Possibly from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *dīkaną (“to arrange; create; perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵ-, *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead; shape; mold; build”), influenced by Latin dictāre; or perhaps from Latin dictāre (“to dictate”) itself. See dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.
chequy
From Anglo-Norman escheké, eschequé (“chequered”), from eschec (“chess, check”). Influenced by chequ(er) + -y and check.
pear tree
From Middle English peretre, pertre, pere tre; equivalent to pear + tree.
mutat
Borrowed from Arabic مُتْعَة (mutʕa). Doublet of mut'ah.
Pontus
From Latin Pontus, from Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos, “Black Sea, Pontus”), from πόντος (póntos, “sea”), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀵 (po-to). Doublet of pons.
Eve-teasing
Named after the biblical Eve, the first woman. Likely influenced by Hindi छेड़ख़ानी (cheṛxānī), छेड़छाड़ (cheṛchāṛ).