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  2. 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 .

  3. Category:Lists of loanwords - Wikipedia

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    List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin; ... List of loanwords in Thai; List of replaced loanwords in Turkish This page was ...

  4. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    The English language has borrowed many words from other cultures or languages. For examples, see Lists of English words by country or language of origin and Anglicisation. Some English loanwords remain relatively faithful to the original phonology even though a particular phoneme might not exist or

  5. List of English words of Old English origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/List of Loanwords - Wikipedia

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    All loanwords are taken from Lists of English words by country or language of origin. If you know a loanword not included on this list please add it; if you have concerns that words included are not loanwords, please raise them on the talk page. In the interest of clarity, even common loanwords like Banjo or Chemistry are included.

  7. List of English words of Dutch origin - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare.In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin.

  8. List of English words of Turkic origin - Wikipedia

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    Albanian, German, Latin, Spanish, Italian, French, Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian were also intermediary languages for the Turkic words to penetrate English, as well as containing numerous Turkic loanwords themselves (e.g. Serbo-Croatian contains around 5,000 Turkic loanwords, primarily from Turkish [1]).

  9. List of English words of Old Norse origin - Wikipedia

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    English provenance = c 1250 AD; are merger of Old English (earun, earon) and Old Norse (er) cognates [4] auk A type of Arctic seabird. [5] awe. agi ("=terror") [6] English provenance = c 1205 AD (as aȝe, an early form of the word resulting from the influence of Old Norse on an existing Anglo-Saxon form, eȝe) awesome From the same Norse root ...