MarcusBennevall/EtymologyTaggerDataset huggingface dataset:
Verna
Coined in the 19th century, from Latin vernus (“spring-like”) or as a feminine of Vernon.
Veronica
From the Latin form of Berenice, from Ancient Greek Φερενίκη (Phereníkē). Influenced by the Church Latin phrase vera icon ("true image") associated with the veil of Saint Veronica, who wiped the face of Jesus on the way to Calvary, resulting in an image of his face miraculously appearing on the veil. Doublet of Berenice.
Borrowed from Spanish Verónica.
Zara
A 20th-century variant of Sarah, or explained as Arabic زَهْرَة (zahra, “flower”); given to the daughter of Princess Anne in 1981.
Guadalupe
Borrowed from Spanish Guadalupe; see there for more. Doublet of Guadeloupe.
longsome
From Middle English longsum, from Old English langsum (“long; taking a long time; lasting a long time; long-enduring; long-suffering”), from Proto-West Germanic *langasam (“lengthy; long-lasting; vast; extensive”), equivalent to long + -some.
ex officio
From Latin ex officio (“by right of office”, literally “from the office”).
mami
Borrowed from Spanish mami.
Borrowed from Tagalog mami, from Hokkien. Doublet of bakmi.
dromology
< French dromologie < Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “race, running, racetrack, course, path”) + λόγος (lógos, “account, explanation, narrative”); term coined by the French philosopher Paul Virilio to discuss the importance of speed in warfare and communication. Equivalent to dromo- + -logy.
olid
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Italic *odō
Latin olō
Latin oleō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin olidusbor.
English olid
Borrowed from Latin olidus from olēre (“to smell”).
premeditate
Learned borrowing from Latin praemeditātus, past participle of praemeditor (“to premeditate”). By surface analysis, pre- + meditate.
henbane
From Middle English henbane, hennebane ( > French hanebane), equivalent to hen + bane. Cognate with Danish hønsebane, Swedish hönsbane. Compare also Old English hennebelle (“henbane”, literally “hen-bell”).
impone
From Latin imponere, impositum (“to place upon”); prefix im- (“in”) + ponere (“to place”). See imposition.
Kazi
Borrowed from Arabic قَاضٍ (qāḍin), from قَضَى (qaḍā, “to judge”)
interpone
From Latin interponere; inter (“between”) + ponere (“to place”). See position.
hend
From Middle English henden, from Old English *hendan, ġehendan (“take hold of”), from Proto-Germanic *handijaną (“to grasp; grab by hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian henda (“to take hold of; seize”), Icelandic henda (“to take hold of by hand; seize; fling”).
From Middle English hende, from Old English ġehende, from Proto-West Germanic *gahandī.
gramarye
Inherited from Middle English gramarie, from Old French gramarie, a variant of gramaire; thus a doublet of glamour, glamoury, grammar, and grimoire. The word was revived by Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832).
cucurbit
From Middle English cocurbite, concurbite, cucurbita, cucurbite, from Middle French cucurbite and Latin cucurbita. Doublet of gourd.
motu proprio
From Medieval Latin motu proprio, from ablative form of classical Latin motus (“motion”) + proprius (“one’s own”).
therm
1920s, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “heat”). See also thermo-, -thermic, etc.
thievish
From Middle English thevysch, equivalent to thief + -ish. Cognate with Saterland Frisian däifsk (“thievish”), Dutch diefs (“thievish”), German Low German deevsk (“thievish”), German diebisch (“thievish”).
thready
From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.
blee
From Middle English blee, ble, from Old English blēo, bleoh (“color, hue; complexion, form”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“color, blee”).
Cognate with Scots ble, blee, blie (“color, complexion”), Old Frisian blī, blie (“color, hue; complexion”) (whence North Frisian bläy, Saterland Frisian Bläier), Middle Dutch blie, blye (“color”). Doublet of bly.
From the Cornish and Irish surname, variant of Bligh.
in the twinkling of an eye
From Middle English in the twynklyng of an iȝe, in þe twynklynk of an eiȝe, from the Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52: We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
essent
Coined by Ralph Manheim in his 1959 English translation of Martin Heidegger’s Einführung in die Metaphysik to render German Seiendes (as distinct from Sein), on the basis of essens, a faux-Latin present participle of sum.
casis
From Spanish caciz or Portuguese caxis, which was from a dialectal pronunciation of Arabic قَاضٍ (qāḍin, “judge”). Doublet of qadi and alcalde.
estrade
Unadapted borrowing from French estrade, from Spanish estrado. Doublet of stratum and street.
truchman
From mediaeval Latin turchemannus or French trucheman, from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān). Doublet of dragoman.
scaglia
Borrowed from Italian scaglia (“a scale, a shell, a chip of marble”). Doublet of scale and shell.
dolefulness
From Middle English doolfulnes, dolfulnesse, equivalent to doleful + -ness.
Muth-labben
From Hebrew מות לבן (muth labbén), a phrase which appears in Psalms 9:1. What the phrase means is somewhat disputed, but it likely indicates either what motivated the writing of the psalm (in which case it probably means "the death of Labben" or "the death of the son" or "the death of the fool") or how the psalm was to be sung (in which case it probably denotes a specific musical instrument to be used for accompaniment, or an existing song whose tune was to be used, or it could mean something like "young boys' voices").
reasonableness
From Middle English resonabilnes, resonabilnesse, resonablenesse, equivalent to reasonable + -ness.
ripeness
From Middle English ripenesse, rypenesse, rijpnesse, from Old English rīpness, equivalent to ripe + -ness.
sirop
From Middle English sirop, sirup, syrop, syroppe, from Old French sirop.
From French sirop. Doublet of syrup. Related to sorbet, sherbet, sharbat.
tambour
Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tabor and tanbur. Compare Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), and tabla.
mandorla
Borrowed from Italian mandorla. Doublet of almond, amygdala, and amygdale.
tuberculate
From Latin tūberculātus. By surface analysis, tubercul(um) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French tuberculé.
mijl
From Dutch mijl, cognate with English mile and similarly derived from Latin milia (“Roman mile, 1000 Roman paces”) but used instead for the much longer league of about an hour's walk.
steek
From Scots steek, from Middle English steke (“to enclose”) and Middle Dutch steken (“to stitch”). Noun from Scots steek (“stitch”), from Middle Dutch steek (“stitch”). More at stick, stitch.
Kikongo
Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-
Kongo ki-
Kongo Kongo
Kongo [Term?]bor.
English Kikongo
From Kongo ki- + Kongo, the prefix indicating inanimate or abstract nouns, and used to form language names. Attested in English since the late nineteenth century; Kongo appears earlier in the century.
bitki
From Russian битки́ (bitkí), plural of бито́к (bitók).
Chauncey
From the Norman name based on several locations in France called Chancé. See Old French chance.
Cedric
Invented by Walter Scott for Ivanhoe, possibly misread for Cerdic, name of a Saxon king, anglicized from Welsh caredig (“beloved”), in which case a doublet of Caradoc, Caradog, Caratacus, Craddock, Cradock, McCarthy, and McCarty. Alternatively Scott based Cedric on the Welsh name Cedrych (“spectacular bounty”).
Flynn
Anglicized from Irish Ó Floinn, "descendant of Flann (red)".
Granville
The commune of France is from Old French Granville, Grandvilla, Grande Villa, Grandivilla, from grant (“grand”) + ville (“settlement”). The surname is of Norman baronial origin, from Grainville, a former commune in Normandy, from the given name Guarin + ville, meaning “Guarin's town”. Guarin ultimately derives from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard”).
Colby
From either the Old Norse personal name Koli or kol (“charcoal”) + býr (“settlement”).
indagate
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin indāgātus, perfect passive participle of indāgō (“to search”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
hauler
From Middle English halere, equivalent to haul + -er. Doublet of haulier.
haycock
From Middle English haycok, hacoke, haycoke; equivalent to hay + cock (“conical heap”).
knop
From Middle English knop, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch knoppe, from Proto-Germanic *knuppô, *knuppaz, *knappô, which is perhaps related to *knappō (“knob, boy”). Possible doublet of knave and knob.
kalon
Borrowed from Ancient Greek καλόν (kalón); related to κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”).
rouille
Borrowed from French rouille (“rouille (sauce); rust”); the sauce is so named because its colour resembles that of rust.
hectolitre
From French hectolitre. By surface analysis, hecto- + litre.
serjeanty
From Middle English sergeauntie, serjaunte, from Old French serjantie, sergantie and Medieval Latin serjantia, sergantia. Compare sergeancy.
gershayim
Borrowed from Hebrew גרשיים / גֵּרְשַׁיִם (gersháyim, literally “two apostrophes”).
skrike
From Middle English skriken, a borrowing from Old Norse skríkja (“to scream”) (compare Old English sċrīċ, sċrēċ > English shriek/screech), literally "bird with a shrill call," referring to a thrush, possibly imitative of its call. Attested from c 1573.
From Middle English skrike, scryke (also skryche, schryke, shryke). Cognate with Old Frisian skrichte, Middle Low German schrichte.
Anschluss
From German Anschluss (“annexation”) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (“to join, unite”).
verderer
From French verdier, from Late Latin viridarius, from Latin viridis (“green”).
wynd
From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (“to wind, proceed, go”). Compare also Old English ġewind; Old Norse venda.
disoblige
From Middle French desobliger. By surface analysis, dis- + oblige.
barbican
From Old French barbacane, of uncertain origin: compare Arabic بَرْبَخ (barbaḵ, “aqueduct, sewer”), and Persian بابخانه (bâb-xâne, “gatehouse”).
loquitur
Borrowed from Latin loquitur (literally “[he/she] speaks”), from loquor.
merse
Middle English merse, variant form of mersh, whence also marsh (see that entry for more).
mordente
Borrowed from Italian mordente, from Latin mordēns, from mordēre.
migraineur
Formed in English of migraine plus French -eur. Compare French migraineux. From 20th century.
broch
From Scots broch, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Doublet of borough and burgh.
cellarium
Borrowed from Late Latin cellārium (“storeroom”). Doublet of cellar.
chantry
From Middle English chaunterie, from Old French chanterie, from chanter (“to sing”).
causey
From Anglo-Norman caucie, chaucee et al., from Late Latin calceāta. In Guernsey use after Guernsey Norman cauchie.
buckling
From German Bückling or Swedish böckling. Cognate with Middle High German bockinc and Middle Dutch bocking (itself from bok (“buck”), referencing the foul smell).
mump
Perhaps borrowed through obsolete Dutch mompen (“to cheat, swindle, deceive”), according to Kroonen, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *mump- (“to stain”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mm̥bʰ-neh₂- Also akin to German mimpfeln (“to mumble”), Icelandic mumpa (“to take into the mouth”). See also English mum.
While Kroonen claims Ancient Greek μέμφομαι (mémphomai, “I blame, accuse”) and the Germanic forms are reconcilable and related, Beekes rejects this, stating that Germanic -p- cannot here correspond to Greek -φ- and that this etymological connection is not widely considered reliable.
spurtle
From Scots spurtle, spurtill (“potstick, spatula”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English spatyl, spatule, from Old French espatule (“spatula”). If so, then doublet of spattle and spatula.
chausson
From French chausson (“shoe, sock; turnover”). Doublet of calzone.
Keegan
Borrowed from Irish Mac Aodhagáin (“son of Aidan”).
Borrowed from Kalenjin Kigan.
Kendall
From the placename Kendal in Cumbria, "valley of the river Kent", and Kendale in Humberside, from Old Norse kelda (“spring”) + dalr (“valley”).
Landon
Place names in England, from Old English lang (“long”) + dūn (“hill”).
Nelson
From Middle English Neil + -son and Nell + -son.
* In the United States, also an Anglicisation of North Germanic (Scandinavian) surnames such as Nilsen, Nielsen, and Nilsson, equivalent to "son of Nicholas".
purveyance
From Middle English purveiaunce et al., from Anglo-Norman purveaunce.
packhorse
From pack + horse, possibly (from an uncertain date) via Middle English palhors (read pakhorse).
minster
From Middle English mynster (see mynisterie), from Old English mynster, from Latin monastērium (“monastery”), from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion, “monastery; solitary dwelling”). Doublet of monastery.
maturation
From Middle English maturacioun, from Middle French maturation, from Latin maturatio. By surface analysis, mature + -ation.
bedhead
From Middle English bed-head, bedhede (also as beddeshed, beddes hede, beddes heed), equivalent to bed + head.
latten
From Middle English laten, latun, latoun, from Old French laton, laiton, from Arabic لَاطُون (lāṭūn, “copper, copper alloy”), itself from Proto-Common Turkic *altun (“gold”). See Turkish altın, Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 (altun, “gold”), Karakhanid اَلْتُونْ (altūn, “gold”).
epanodos
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπάνοδος (epánodos), from ἐπ- (ep-) + ἀνα- (ana-) + ὁδός (hodós). By surface analysis, ep- + an- + -ode + Ancient Greek -ος (-os).
ealdorman
Learned borrowing from Old English ealdormann. See alderman (from Old English aldormann).
goo-goo
First attested circa 1899, in US military slang, probably from American soldiers during the Philippine-American War hearing Tagalog gago (“idiot; fool; simpleton”) and Tagalog gaga (“female idiot; female fool”) and considering it to sound like babbling (goo goo ga ga).
Possibly influenced by goo-goo eyes, which "was in vogue c. 1900 and may have contributed to this somehow" since early uses of goo-goo and gook refer specifically to prostitutes who followed army camps.
See also gook.
cheval de frise
Borrowed from French cheval de frise (“Frisian horse”), so named because it was employed by the Dutch (who lacked cavalry) against the Spanish cavalry in their war for independence.
wadset
From Middle English wedsetten, equivalent to wed (“pledge”) + set. Wad is a Scottish form of wed.
watchet
From Middle English wachet, waget; compare French vaciet (“whortleberry”), Latin vaccīnium (“blueberry”).
voussoir
Unadapted borrowing from French voussoir, from Old French vosoir, from Vulgar Latin *volsorium, from *volsus, from Latin volvō (“to roll”).
trouse
From Middle English trouse.
Apparently partly a variant of trews, and perhaps partly from Irish triús.
souter
Inherited from Middle English soutere, from Old English sūtere, from Latin sūtor (“shoemaker, cobbler”).
habitus
From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habeō (“have; maintain”). The plural habiti is a misconstruction, as the Latin plural is in fact habitūs. habiti may have been influenced by Latin habitī, the plural of the participle habitus; however, it is not the etymon of the English term.
kaymak
Borrowed from Turkish kaymak (“cream”), from Ottoman Turkish قایماق.
Nolan
Anglicized from Irish Ó Nualláin (literally “descendant of Nuallán”), diminutive of nuall (“chariot-fighter, champion”).
Dione
From Latin Diōnē (“of Jupiter”), from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “of Zeus”).
Orville
Invented by Fanny Burney for the hero of her novel Evelina. It has been suggested that it is based on the very old Welsh forename of Eurfyl, meaning 'gold'.
Otis
A patronymic surname derived from Middle English genitive case of the Germanic given name Ote, Ode, cognate to modern Otto.
Rhys
Borrowed from Welsh Rhys. Doublet of Price, Reece, Rees, Reese, and Rice.
Reese
* As a given name and British surname generally from Welsh Rhys (literally “ardor”).
* Chiefly in North America, the surname may also be from unrelated German Reese (literally “giant”).
acrasia
Learned borrowing from Late Latin acrasia (“lack of temperance”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ (ăkrāsĭ́ā, “bad mixture”), from ἄκρᾱτος (ákrātos, “pure, unmixed; of a person: intemperate, violent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ἄκρᾱτος (Ákrātos) is derived from ᾰ̓- (ă-, prefix forming terms having a sense opposite to the stems or words to which it is attached) + κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to blend, mix; to cool or temper by mixing”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; horn”)) + -τος (-tos, suffix forming adjectives). Doublet of acrasy.
akrasia
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κρᾰσῐ́ᾱ (ăkrăsĭ́ā), a variant of ᾰ̓κρᾰ́τειᾰ (ăkrắteiă, “lack of power, debility, impotence; lack of self-control, incontinence; self-indulgence”), from ἀκρατής (akratḗs, “having no authority, powerless; unable to exercise self-control, incontinent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ἀκρατής (Akratḗs) is derived from ᾰ̓- (ă-, prefix forming terms having a sense opposite to the stems or words to which it is attached) + κρᾰ́τος (krắtos, “might, strength; dominion, power”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kret- (“insight, intelligence; strength”)) + -ής (-ḗs, suffix forming third-declension adjectives). Doublet of acratia.
Rory
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Ruairidh and Irish Ruairí (“red-haired king”), from Old Irish Ruaidrí (“red king”).
prebend
From Middle French prebende, from Medieval Latin prebenda, from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus, verbal adjective of praebere. Doublet of provender.
potence
Borrowed from Middle French potence (“power, a crutch”), from Latin potentia (“power, in Medieval Latin also crutch”), from potens (“powerful”); see potent.
poind
Borrowed from Middle Scots poynd, puynd, from Middle English pynden, from Old English *pyndan (and derived ġepyndan), from Proto-West Germanic *pundijan. Doublet of pind.
pendicle
From Middle English, probably from Medieval Latin pendiculum (“appendage”), from Late Latin pendiculus (“cord, noose”), from Latin pendere (“to weigh”).
parclose
From Middle English parclose, perclose, from Old French parclos, perclose and others, Middle French parclose (“end, enclosure”), noun use of past participle of parclore (“to enclose”).
mure
Inherited from Middle English muren, from Middle French murer, from Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from Late Latin mūrō, mūrāre, from Latin mūrus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).
muniment
From Anglo-Norman muniment, Middle French muniment, and their source, Latin mūnīmentum (“fortification, defence”), from mūnīre (“to fortify”).
mistal
Inherited from Middle English *mystal, from myx (“dung”) + stal (“shed”).
For the disappearance of /k/ before /st/, compare the disappearance of /x/ before /st/ in Anglian Old English hēst (“highest”), nēst (“nearest”), and sesta (“sixth”), surviving in Scots neest (“next”).
malleolus
Borrowed from Latin malleolus (“a small hammer or mallet”); itself from malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus (“diminutive suffix”).
belonoid
From Ancient Greek βελόνη (belónē, “a needle”) + -oid.
Quasimodo
From the opening of the introit of the day’s Tridentine Mass in Ecclesiastical Latin: quasi modo genitī īnfāntēs (“as newborn babes …”).
sperse
Apheretic form of asperse, from Latin aspersus, past participle of aspergere.
smalto
Borrowed from Italian smalto. Doublet of schmaltz and smalt.
Yuli
From Mandarin 玉里 (Yùlǐ).
From Mandarin 尉犁 (Yùlí).
banya
From Russian ба́ня f (bánja). Doublet of bagnio, bain, and balaneion.
rightness
From Middle English rightnesse, riȝtnesse, rihtnesse, from Old English rihtnes, rehtnis, from Proto-West Germanic *rehtanassī (“rightness, justice”), equivalent to right + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian rjochtens (“rightness”), Middle Dutch rechtenesse (“rightness, justification”), Old High German rehtnissa (“justice”).
minikin
From Middle Dutch minnekijn (“darling, beloved”), from minne (“love”) (cf. minnesinger) and the diminutive suffix -kijn.
From Miniken, a 16th-century English form of the place name Munich, a German city where such strings were produced and from which they were imported. Miniken is derived from then-contemporary German Münichen.
experience is the best teacher
Calque of Latin ūsus magister est optimus, from Prō Rabīriō Postumō by Cicerō about Gāius Rabīrius Postumus.
lorimer
From Old French lormier, loremier, from Latin loranum (“bridle”), lorum (“thong, the rein of a bridle”).
Scottish occupational surname for a maker or seller of spurs, bits and other metal attachments to harness and tackle, from Anglo-Norman lorenier, an agent derivative of Old French lorain (“tackle, harness”).
lemniscus
Borrowed from Latin lēmniscus (“pendent ribbon”), from Ancient Greek λημνῐ́σκος (lēmnĭ́skos), from Λῆμνος (Lêmnos, “a Greek island Lemnos”) + -ίσκος (-ískos, “noun-forming diminutive suffix”).
jackanapes
From Middle English iack napys, iac nape, iac napes (“derogatory nickname of the English military commander and statesman William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396–1450)”), probably from Jacun or Jakin (“pet forms of the male name Jack”) + ape (“ape, monkey”) + -s (possibly modelled after surnames such as Hobbes and Jakkes), referring to Suffolk’s heraldic badge which was an ape’s chain and clog (“weight such as a block of wood or log attached to an animal to hinder motion”) (see the image, right). It is uncertain whether the word was first coined as a nickname for Suffolk (the earliest known uses), or to refer to an ape or an ape-like person. If the word was originally a nickname, some early uses of etymology 1 sense 2.1 (“person thought to behave like an ape or monkey”) may allude to Suffolk who was widely regarded as an upstart, having risen from the merchant class.
In later uses, the middle element of the word was often treated as the indefinite article a or an, that is, as if the word meant “Jack, an ape”.
hatchment
From Middle French hachement, a modification of Old French acesmement (“adornment”) (related to Italian accismare); not, as is often claimed, an alteration of achievement.
genethliac
From Latin genethliacus, from Ancient Greek γενεθλιακός (genethliakós, “belonging to a birthday”).
maxillary
Borrowed from Latin māxillāris (“of or belonging to the jaw”), from māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to maxilla + -ary.
heugh
From Old English hōh (“promontory”). The southern form is hoe.
heritor
From Middle English heriter, from Anglo-Norman heriter, Old French heritier, earlier eretier, eritier, from Late Latin hērēditārium (from the adjective hērēditārius (“hereditary”)), which took the place of hērēs (“heir”). In the 16th century conformed to agent nouns in -our, -or. By surface analysis, herit + -or.
millwheel
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *mélh₂-ti
Proto-Italic *melōder.
Latin molō
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Late Latin molīnus
Late Latin molīnabor.
Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu
Old English mylen
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Old English mylenhwēol
Middle English milnewhel
English millwheel
From Middle English milnewhel, from Old English mylenhwēol (“millwheel”), equivalent to mill + wheel.
hamesucken
From Old English hāmsōcn, literally "home-seeking, an attack upon a house; also the fine exacted for this". Compare German Heimsuchung.
cornage
Borrowed from French cornage, from Latin cornū (“horn”) + -age.
Moloch
From the Proto-Semitic *malk- (“king”). The figurative sense derives from the Old Testament, in which it is alleged that the cult of Moloch involved the sacrifice of human children.
From Hebrew מולך (molokh, “Ammonite god, worshipped by Canaanites and Phoenicians, who demanded child-sacrifice. Mentioned in Leviticus and Deuteronomy”).