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مشاهدة النسخة كاملة : Words that English Has Borrowed from Other L anguages


DôRsàfe
2015-04-04, 10:43
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Words from Old Norse:

Anger, bag, birth, bleak, both, cake, call, club, crooked, die, drag, egg, fellow, freckle, gaze, get,
hit, husband, kid, kindle, knife, law, leg, lift, loose, meek, oaf, raft, rag, raise, reindeer, root, rug,
same, scalp, scare, seem, skirt, sky, snare, take, they, Thursday, tight, troll, trust, ugly, want,
wand, window, wrong, wise,
Half of English vocabulary came from Norman French because of the conquest in 1066.
Some examples:
archer, assault, bacon, bail, beef butcher, button, chivalry, comfort, court, courtesy, curfew, crime,
custom, defeat, eagle, enemy, dungeon, elope, embezzle, evidence, eagle, error, fashion, gallon, felony,
grammar, grief, grocer, honor, injury, joy, judge, jury, justice, lavender, leisure, liberty, lease, lever,
majesty, manor, marriage, matrimony, mutton, noble, noun, nurse, occupy, odor, parliament, pedigree,

Words from Latin:
Abdomen, actor, agriculture, creditor, crisis, December, demonstrator, dictator, dilemma, diploma,
distribute, doctor, dogma, drama, duplex, duplicate, echo, educator, ego, editor, elevator, emphasis,
exterior, exit, enema, exterminate, extra, exterior, extreme, factor, favor, fetus, focus, formula, fungus,
genius, gladiator, geranium, gusto, honor, horizon, horror, humor, icon, idea, ignoramus, illustrator,
incubator, index, inertia, inferior, insomnia, instructor, inferior, inspector, investigate, janitor, labor,**
junior, legislate, liberate,
Words from Greek

Atlas, Bible, barbaric, biography, biology, captain, cardiac, catalyst, catastrophy, category, catholic, cell,
cemetery, center, chaos, character, charisma, choir, chronic, classic, climate, code, coa comedy, comma,
cost, crisis, criticism, cube, cycle, cylinder, democracy, demon, dialog, diagnosis, diagonal, diagram,
diameter, cereal, cloth, echo, hypnosis, narcissus, panic, academic, acrobat, agony, air, allergy, alphabet,
amnesia, amphibian, anatomy, apology, architecture, aristocrat, arithmetic, aroma, atheism, athlete,
atmosphere, autobiography, dilemma, diploma, dogma, drama, dynamic, eccentric, echo, economic,

Words from Spanish:
adios, albino, alfalfa, alligator, avocado, banana, barracuda, barbecue, bronco, burro,
cafeteria, canary, cannibal, canyon, chihuahua, chili, chocolate, cigar, cocaine, cockroach,
comrade, embargo, fiesta, filibuster, guacamole, guerrilla, hammock, hacienda, hurricane,
iguana, jaguar, lasso, llama, machete, macho, maize, margarita, matador, marijuana, mesa,
mosquito, negro, oregano, papaya, patio, pimento, pinata, pina colada, plaza, poncho, potato,
pueblo, puma, ranch, rodeo, rumba, salsa, savanna, savvy, shack, siesta, sombrero, spaniel,
stampede, stevedore, tobacco, taco, tango, tequila, tomato, toreador, tornado, tortilla, tuna,

Words from Arabic:
Admiral, adobe, albatross, alcohol, alkaline, almanac, alfalfa, amber, arsenal, assassin, azure,
borax, caliber, candy, chemistry, cipher, coffee, cotton, crimson, divan, gauze, gazelle, gerbil,
ghoul, giraffe, harem, hashish, hazard, henna, jar, lilac, lemon, lime, loofah, macramé, mafia,

atheena
2015-04-05, 18:20
thank you very muc h
it is really an intersting topic

DôRsàfe
2015-04-05, 19:28
thank you very muc h
it is really an intersting topic
~~ Don't need to thank me dear this is my job ... and thnx for passing ~~ :)

نارينا
2015-04-07, 15:19
Good job!
Carry on

chahrazed pretty
2015-04-07, 15:26
Thank you Dorsafe

DôRsàfe
2015-04-07, 18:20
Good job!
Carry on


Thank You sister so much :)

abdnour sanchez
2015-04-13, 15:03
new information thanks

ĈĦĪRĪ ИЄ
2015-04-13, 15:27
Thank you My friend;)

DôRsàfe
2015-04-22, 19:31
new information thanks

You're Welcome :) thnx for passing

DôRsàfe
2015-04-22, 19:34
Thank you My friend;)


You're Welcome my Dear thnx for passing ;);)

أسامة 10
2015-05-22, 23:25
Good topic. I have two other ones : alcohol : كحول cave : كهف,

DôRsàfe
2015-05-24, 20:02
Thnks for passing ans Share ~

youcefscor
2015-05-25, 08:07
thank you...
what about camel?!

DôRsàfe
2015-05-25, 17:31
thank you...
what about camel?!

~ | Don't Need to thankk me This is My job here . ; Thnx for passing .. well for the word Camel no .. camel in spanish is →→ Camello .. | ~ ThnX

DôRsàfe
2015-05-25, 17:32
[QUOTE=DôRsàfe ♥;3993504990][COLOR="Black"]~ | [CENTER][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="5"][CENTER]Don't Need to thankk me This is My job here . ; Thnx for passing .. well for the word Camel Maybe yes ..

Graffiti
2015-06-16, 10:52
Thank you for this information

DôRsàfe
2015-06-16, 16:30
u r wlc ..
thnx for passing ~| ..