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  2. Cowabunga - Wikipedia

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    Search for Cowabunga in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the Cowabunga article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

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

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    List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin; List of English words of Hungarian origin; List of English words of Indian origin; List of English words of Indonesian origin, including from Javanese, Malay (Sumatran) Sundanese, Papuan (West Papua), Balinese, Dayak and other local languages in Indonesia; List of English words of Irish origin ...

  4. Ke-mo sah-bee - Wikipedia

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    Ke-mo sah-bee (/ ˌ k iː m oʊ ˈ s ɑː b iː /; often spelled kemo sabe, kemosabe or kimosabe) is the term used by the fictional Native American sidekick Tonto as the "Native American" name for the Lone Ranger in the American Lone Ranger radio program and television show.

  5. Talk:Cowabunga - Wikipedia

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    This slang term, having no real “meaning,” does not exactly deserve to be on wiktionary. But, since it has loads of cultural significance, it does deserve to be on wikipedia. Having an article about cowabunga on wikipedia would greatly decrease the tendency for vandalism to appear on this page.

  6. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First ...

  7. List of English words of Welsh origin - Wikipedia

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    This Welsh term was derived from the Latin corium meaning "leather or hide", the material from which coracles are made. [2] corgi from cor, "dwarf" + gi (soft mutation of ci), "dog". cwm (very specific geographic sense today) or coomb/combe (dated). Cornish; komm; passed into Old English where sometimes written 'cumb' flannel

  8. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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    The English language descends from Old English, the West Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons. Most of its grammar, its core vocabulary and the most common words are Germanic. [1] However, the percentage of loans in everyday conversation varies by dialect and idiolect, even if English vocabulary at large has a greater Romance influence.

  9. History of English - Wikipedia

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    See English language word origins and List of English words of French origin. Although English is a Germanic language, it has a deep connection to Romance languages. The roots of this connection trace back to the Conquest of England by the Normans in 1066.