Hussy, short for housewife. Compare bos’n for boatswain.
Icicle = ice-gicel. The termination is not to be confounded with the diminutive ending -icle, which is of Latin origin. Gicel = a small piece of ice, and is therefore redundant.
Intoxicate, to drug or poison. From a Low Latin verb to poison, from Greek toxon, an arrow, because arrows were frequently dipped in poison.
Island, water-land (O. E. ea, water, and land). The s is intrusive, and due to a confusion with isle, which is from Lat. insula, an island. Milton always spells it iland.
Jaw (old spelling, chaw), from chew, therefore = that which chews.
Jerusalem artichoke, It. girasole; Lat. gyrus (Gr. gyros), a circle, and sol, the sun. The artichoke is a kind of sunflower. Jerusalem is a corruption; like sparrow-grass for asparagus.
Kickshaws, a corruption of French quelques choses.
Kindness, the feeling that is natural to those of the same kin or family.
Lanthorn, Lat. lanterna. No connection with horn.
Ledge, a place on which things may be laid. From the verb lay.