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  2. List of loanwords in Tagalog - Wikipedia

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    The table below shows different Arabic loanwords, including archaic and poetic ones, incorporated into the Tagalog lexicon. If an Arabic loanword is considered to be borrowed through the mediation of Malay, the intermediate Malay term is also specified. Several Spanish loanwords incorporated into Tagalog have origins in the Arabic language. [79]

  3. Lists of English words by country or language of origin

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    The following are lists of words in the English language that are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages. For Old English-derived words, see List of English words of Old English origin. English words of African origin; List of English words of Afrikaans origin. List of South African English regionalisms

  4. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    Latin is usually the most common source of loanwords in these languages, such as in Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, etc., [27] [28] and in some cases the total number of loans may even outnumber inherited terms [29] [30] (although the learned borrowings are less often used in common speech, with the most common vocabulary being of ...

  5. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Latin calques many terms from Greek, [58] [59] many of which have been borrowed by English. compassion calques συμπάθεια (sympathia) "sympathy" (Latin: "suffering with", Greek: "suffering together") deus ex machina calques ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apo mechanēs theos) (Latin: "god out of the machine", Greek: "out of the ...

  6. Category:Lists of loanwords - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Lists of loanwords" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... List of Byzantine Greek words of Latin origin; H.

  7. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    Loanwords are words that are adopted from one language into another. Since this article is about homographs, the loanwords listed here are written the same not only in English and Spanish, but also in the language that the word came from. Many of the words in the list are Latin cognates.

  8. Latin influence in English - Wikipedia

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    The Germanic tribes who later gave rise to the English language traded and fought with the Latin speaking Roman Empire.Many words for common objects entered the vocabulary of these Germanic people from Latin even before the tribes reached Britain: anchor, butter, camp, cheese, chest, cook, copper, devil, dish, fork, gem, inch, kitchen, mile, mill, mint (coin), noon, pillow, pound (unit of ...

  9. List of Spanish words of various origins - Wikipedia

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    egipcio = an Egyptian, of Egypt: from Latin Aegyptius, from Aígyptus "Egypt," from Ancient Greek Aigyptos, from regional Egyptian Hikuptah, variant of Egyptian Hat-kaptah, one of the ancient names of Memphis, Egypt. embarcar = to embark, to board a ship: from Late Latin imbarcare, from in-+ barca, see barca above