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WRITE
The etymological notion underlying "write" is of "cutting" or "scratching" (its related to the German "reissen" - to tear). The earliest form of writing involved cutting marks on stone, wood, etc, and the same word was carried over when the technology of writing moved on to pen and ink. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic "writan", but its ultimate origins are not known. The noun "writ" goes back to the same Germanic base.
YOGHURT
It has taken a long time for yoghurt to settle down orthographically, and the process is not yet complete. It was originally acquired (from the Turkish "yoghurt") in the 1620s, as "yoghurd", and since then spellings such as "yaghourt", "yooghoot", "yughard", "yohourth", and "yaourt" (reflecting the fact that the Turkish "gh" is silent) have been tried. "Yoghurt" still vies with "yogurt".
ENIGMA
"Enigma" comes, via Latin, from the Greek "ainigma" meaning riddle, or obscure statement. This was a derivative of the verb "ainissesthai", to talk in riddles, which in turn came from the noun "ainos", a tale or story. Its Modern English use for something puzzling dates from the early 17th century
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