Words that English Has Borrowed from Other L anguages

DôRsàfe · 2015-04-04, 10:43

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,