Curated journeys

The Colonial Exchange

Words that crossed with empires

Colonialism left scars — and words. These traveled on ships of conquest, becoming part of languages they never chose.

2910

Words

921

Languages

6

Themes

Greek

108

Latin (from Greek)

8

Javanese

6

Hindi/Urdu from Persian

5

Maori

5

Modern Latin, named for a person

5

Brazilian Portuguese

5

Guaraní

5

Malay/Javanese

4

Sanskrit/Hindi

4

Hindi from Sanskrit

4

English (uncertain origin)

4

English from Taíno

4

Spanish from Latin

4

Italian (from Latin)

4

Chinese

4

Hindi / Sanskrit

4

Dharug (Australian Aboriginal)

4

English from Latin

4

English from Swahili (Bantu)

4

English (origin uncertain)

4

Khmer

4

Mapudungun

4

English from Arabic

3

Hindi/Marathi

3

Kimbundu (Angola)

3

Afrikaans from Dutch

3

Arabic via Spanish

3

Spanish (from Latin)

3

Tahitian

3

Greek (modern coinage)

3

Middle Dutch / Low German

3

Portuguese / Spanish

3

Low German / Dutch

3

Rapa Nui

3

Hindi (from Sanskrit)

3

Latin from Greek

3

English from French

3

French (from Latin)

3

Dharug (Aboriginal Australian)

3

Nyungar (Aboriginal Australian)

3

Javanese / Malay

3

Turkic

3

Latin (via Old French)

3

English (place name)

3

Aymara

3

English (compound)

3

Tagalog (Filipino)

3

English (American)

3

Fijian

3

Oromo

3

Swahili from Arabic

2

English from Hindi

2

English from Dutch

2

Spanish/Portuguese

2

Taíno via Spanish

2

Hindi/Urdu

2

Nahuatl (Aztec)

2

Taino/Arawak

2

Taino

2

English (eponym)

2

French (place name)

2

Italian from Latin

2

English from Quechua

2

Spanish (diminutive)

2

Italian (Venetian)

2

Afrikaans (from Dutch)

2

Old Persian

2

Yagara

2

English (personal name)

2

Hindi/Urdu from Sanskrit

2

English from Hindi (place name)

2

Ojibwe (Algonquian)

2

Narragansett (Algonquian)

2

Powhatan (Algonquian)

2

Vietnamese (from French)

2

Amharic / Ge'ez

2

Romani (from Sanskrit)

2

Arabic/Persian

2

English (surname)

2

Thai from Sanskrit

2

Spanish from Quechua

2

Powhatan Algonquian (Virginia)

2

Malay / Indonesian

2

Tupi (via Portuguese)

2

Hawaiian / Proto-Polynesian

2

Turkish / Persian

2

Italian via French

2

French from Latin

2

Old French from Latin

2

Latin/English

2

Arabic / Urdu

2

Malayalam / Tamil

2

English (nautical)

2

Swahili (from Arabic)

2

Middle Low German

2

Babylonian (Akkadian)

2

Romani-influenced English

2

Greek via Latin

2

English from Old English

2

Brazilian Portuguese from Tupi

2

Spanish / Portuguese

2

Australian Aboriginal

2

French zoological usage from an African source

2

Urdu

2

Spanish from Taíno

2

Akan

2

Malagasy

2

Igbo

2

Old French (from Latin)

2

Akan (Twi)

2

Ga (Ghanaian)

2

Burmese

2

Latin (modern coinage)

2

Samoan

2

English (disputed)

2

Maltese

2

Pashto

2

Haitian Creole

2

Quechua/Aymara

2

Marshallese

2

Algonquian

2

English (South African)

2

Zulu (South African)

2

English from multiple origins

1

English from Nahuatl

1

English from Tahitian/Samoan

1

English from Tongan

1

English from Dharug (Aboriginal Australian)

1

English from Persian/Hindi-Urdu

1

English from Hokkien Chinese

1

English from Arabic/Persian/Sanskrit

1

Taíno/Arawakan

1

Yiddish from Hebrew

1

Kongo/Kikongo

1

Quechua via Spanish

1

Hungarian from Serbian/Croatian from Latin

1

Igbo (West African)

1

Mongolic/Turkic

1

Sanskrit via Hindi

1

Tamil/Malayalam

1

Hindi/Gujarati

1

Urdu/Persian

1

Hindi/Bengali

1

Persian from Mongol

1

Turkic/Mongol via Russian

1

Persian via Hindi

1

Norwegian from Old Norse

1

American English (disputed African origin)

1

Swahili (via an elephant's name)

1

Fon/Ewe (West African)

1

Kimbundu (Angolan)

1

Mandinka (West African)

1

Gullah (from West African languages)

1

Turkic (via Russian)

1

Tamil/Hindi

1

English (possibly from Wolof)

1

Cantonese/Portuguese

1

Tungusic (Evenki)

1

Portuguese (from Chinese/Sanskrit)

1

Russian (from Slavic)

1

Dutch (from Old Norse)

1

Kongo/Spanish

1

Lese (DRC)

1

Bantu (various)

1

Portuguese from Hindi/Bengali

1

Greek from Phoenician

1

Portuguese from Greek

1

Greek from Hebrew/Sanskrit

1

Medieval Latin/Italian

1

Sanskrit via Persian and Arabic

1

Spanish from Nahuatl

1

Arabic (possibly from West African Wolof)

1

German from Latin

1

Spanish/Portuguese from Provençal/Germanic

1

Portuguese/Spanish

1

French from Tupi

1

Italian/Basque

1

Old French from Latin/Greek

1

English from Quechua/Mapudungun

1

English from Taíno/Arawakan

1

English from Quechua/Aymara

1

Spanish/Río de la Plata

1

English from Japanese

1

English from Arabic/Turkish/Persian

1

English from Arabic/Berber

1

English from Swahili/Spanish

1

Tibetan/Nepali

1

English from Malay

1

Japanese from Portuguese

1

Greek from Turkish

1

Portuguese via Indian English

1

Latin via theology

1

Valencian/Catalan

1

Arabic via Turkish/Persian

1

Hindi/Urdu from Arabic

1

Tupi via Portuguese

1

Mayan (possibly via Spanish)

1

Malay (onomatopoeia)

1

Persian via Hindi/Urdu

1

Portuguese (possibly from Hindi बरांडा)

1

Malayalam (from Calicut)

1

Persian via Turkish

1

Spanish via West African languages

1

Tagalog / Malay

1

Kalaallisut (Greenlandic Inuit)

1

Medieval Italian

1

Venetian Italian

1

Sicilian/Italian

1

German (Swiss dialect)

1

Sinhala (via Portuguese/Spanish)

1

Hindi (from Sanskrit via Portuguese)

1

Dutch (via Spanish and French)

1

West African (Mande languages, via French)

1

Mande (West African)

1

English (from Crimean place name)

1

Arabic (possibly from Greek)

1

American English (Italian-American slang)

1

Spanish (from a literary character)

1

Sanskrit (via Portuguese and Persian)

1

Spanish (from Carib/Taino)

1

Latin (from Germanic tribal name)

1

Greek (from Hebrew qanna'im)

1

French (from German/Dutch)

1

English (from a surname)

1

Greek (from Carian name)

1

French / Italian

1

German (surname)

1

Ottoman Turkish / Arabic

1

Arabic / Persian / Turkish

1

Sanskrit/Persian

1

Latin/Italian

1

Bantu (Kongo)

1

Kimbundu / Haitian Creole

1

Welsh English

1

Nenets (via Russian)

1

French/West African

1

Algonquian (Powhatan/Renápe)

1

English (acronym)

1

Old Church Slavonic

1

Gaulish / Old Celtic

1

Dutch/Middle Dutch

1

Persian / Hindustani

1

Persian / Old Iranian

1

Gaulish via Latin

1

Middle English / Old French

1

English (neologism)

1

French from Franco-Provençal

1

Afrikaans from Portuguese

1

English (from Hindi/Persian)

1

Akan (Asante/Ghana)

1

Scottish English (possibly Old French)

1

French (from Cambrai)

1

Late Latin (from Gaulish)

1

Italian (Florentine)

1

English (origin disputed)

1

French/Italian (origin debated)

1

French (personal name)

1

Gascon French

1

Urdu / Persian

1

Cree

1

Guaraní / Quechua

1

Tswana (Setswana)

1

Yoruba (via Hausa)

1

Shona

1

African American English (from Wolof)

1

Old French (from Medieval Latin)

1

English (from Middle English barre)

1

Greek (coined 1788)

1

Arabic (probable origin)

1

Italian (from a Roman noble family name)

1

New Latin (named 1789, for Louis Antoine de Bougainville)

1

Greek (from akis, a point or thorn)

1

New Latin (named 1753, for Georg Josef Kamel)

1

New Latin (named 1821, for Stamford Raffles)

1

Urdu/Hindi from Persian

1

English (scientific portmanteau)

1

Dutch / Portuguese

1

Portuguese (from Malay)

1

Portuguese (from Fiot/Bantu)

1

Portuguese (from West African)

1

Pali / Sanskrit

1

French (from Swiss dialect)

1

Tibetan / Dzongkha

1

Serbian/South Slavic

1

Scottish Gaelic / Irish

1

Old Irish

1

Irish English

1

Ukrainian/Turkic

1

Massachusett (Algonquian)

1

Massachusett / Narragansett (Algonquian)

1

Mi'kmaq (Algonquian)

1

Algonquian (Virginia Algonquian)

1

Nuu-chah-nulth (Wakashan)

1

Papuan Malay (via Malay)

1

Tswana (Bantu)

1

Zulu/Xhosa

1

Khoikhoi (via Afrikaans)

1

Samoan / Proto-Polynesian

1

Ottoman Turkish / Urdu (from Arabic)

1

Ottoman Turkish / Persian

1

Hungarian (personal name)

1

Polish / Turkic origin

1

English (disputed: possibly from Hungarian bocskai)

1

Hokkien Chinese via Japanese

1

Dutch / Middle Dutch

1

Middle Dutch / Old Norse

1

Malay (place name)

1

Malay (from Tupi via Portuguese)

1

Hindi / Malay

1

Anglo-Indian English (from British slang, adopted into Hindi)

1

Urdu / Hindi (from Persian, from Arabic)

1

Urdu / Persian (from Arabic)

1

Tamil / Sanskrit (via Portuguese)

1

Hindi / Urdu (hybrid of English + Arabic)

1

Spanish (from Basque)

1

Spanish (from Chincha, Quechua)

1

Spanish (possibly from Portuguese or Khoikhoi)

1

Mexican Spanish (from Nahuatl)

1

Spanish (origin disputed)

1

Old Welsh / Common Brythonic

1

Cornish / Brythonic

1

Cornish / Middle Welsh

1

Cornish / Old Welsh

1

Welsh / Common Brythonic

1

Cornish / Brythonic substrate

1

Welsh / Brythonic Celtic

1

English (origin obscure)

1

French (from the Tatar peoples)

1

English via Arabic

1

Hindi via English

1

English (from Madras, India)

1

English via Spanish

1

Nyulnyul / Gangulu (Australian Aboriginal)

1

Yuwaalaraay (Australian Aboriginal)

1

Noongar (Australian Aboriginal)

1

Yagara (Australian Aboriginal)

1

Middle Low German / Dutch

1

New Latin (from German)

1

English from Portuguese from Khmer

1

Filipino Spanish / Tagalog

1

Italian/Spanish

1

Spanish (Colombian)

1

Spanish (Dominican)

1

Chinook Jargon / English

1

Hausa / Twi

1

German / Latin

1

Arabic (from Egyptian)

1

Ancient Egyptian (via Latin)

1

English from Dutch/German via French

1

English from French from Latin

1

English from Spanish or French

1

English from Swahili from Arabic

1

English from Ga (Ghana)

1

English from Swahili from Arabic from Akkadian

1

English from Afrikaans

1

English from Zulu / Tsonga (Bantu)

1

Abkhazian

1

Modern Latin from Greek

1

English from Medieval Latin

1

Romani (from Sanskrit/Hindi)

1

Romani (from Ossetic/Iranian)

1

Romani (via Persian)

1

English from Middle French from Latin

1

English from Old French from Latin

1

Dravidian (Tamil/Malayalam)

1

Mycenaean Greek (Linear B)

1

Cariban (via Caribbean Spanish)

1

Persian (Farsi)

1

Akkadian / Sumerian tradition

1

Akkadian (from Sumerian gi)

1

French (surname)

1

Scottish (surname)

1

Thai from Pali/Sanskrit

1

Thai from Malay

1

Lao/Thai (Isaan)

1

Catalan / Occitan

1

French (possibly Frankish)

1

French (from Turkish)

1

Latin (from Semitic)

1

Chinese Pidgin English

1

Spanish (from Portuguese crioulo)

1

Louisiana French (from Spanish la ñapa, from Quechua yapay)

1

Louisiana Creole (from Provençal jambalaia, influenced by West African and Spanish)

1

Italian (from Arabic lisān al-Faranī)

1

Provençal/Italian/Arabic (< Latin sapere)

1

Jamaican Creole (from Bube dupe or related Bantu/Igbo forms)

1

Jamaican Creole (from Igbo/Twi/West African, possibly from Hebrew via Arabic)

1

Caribbean Creole (Trinidad, Guyana, St. Vincent — from Kikongo nzambi or related Bantu)

1

Trinidad Creole (origin disputed: West African kaiso, or possibly French Caribbean créole)

1

Spanish (from Caribbean origin, possibly Arawakan)

1

Carib

1

English (early modern, from Dutch or Low German)

1

English (Caribbean colonial)

1

English naval slang

1

Turkish place name

1

Latin place name

1

Old Norse place name

1

Latin from Greek (Phasis, Colchis)

1

Latin from Greek (Sardinia)

1

Arabic / French place name

1

Akkadian / Hebrew place name

1

English from Mahlemut (Inupiaq people name)

1

Portuguese, from Sanskrit/Gujarati tānkī

1

French from Old French

1

Spanish (from duen de casa)

1

Spanish (sobre + mesa)

1

Spanish (origin disputed; possibly Tertullian)

1

Spanish (quince + años + -era)

1

Spanish (tele + novela)

1

Spanish (vaca + -ero)

1

Spanish (from Latin mixtus)

1

Spanish (correr + de + toro)

1

Spanish (from Quechua or Mapuche; origin disputed)

1

Spanish (pasar + -eo)

1

Lakota (Siouan)

1

Natick (Massachusetts Algonquian)

1

Narragansett Algonquian (New England)

1

English place name

1

Italian (from Medieval Latin)

1

Wiradjuri (Aboriginal Australian)

1

Yuwaalaraay (Aboriginal Australian)

1

Jagera / Turrbal (Aboriginal Australian)

1

Wemba-Wemba (Aboriginal Australian)

1

Irish (place name)

1

Welsh / Celtic

1

Celtic / Old French

1

Irish (Gaelic)

1

Irish / Scottish Gaelic

1

Malay (via Persian)

1

Old Norse / Old Swedish

1

Low German / Scandinavian

1

Russian (from Turkic)

1

Yiddish (from Hebrew)

1

Temne / Mandinka

1

Kikongo / Kimbundu

1

Gullah / Wolof

1

Bantu (Shona / regional)

1

Persian (via Latin)

1

Persian (via Old French)

1

Persian (via Dutch and Low German)

1

Algonquian (via Spanish)

1

Tupi (via Portuguese/French)

1

Uncertain (possibly Mayan/Arawak)

1

Nahuatl (via Spanish)

1

Rumsen Ohlone

1

Turkish / Arabic

1

Turkish / Italian

1

Nigerian English

1

Ghanaian English

1

Louisiana Creole French

1

Ancient Egyptian/Greek

1

Okinawan / Japanese

1

French (from a person's name)

1

Old English via Old Norse

1

Arabic (place name)

1

Chinese (Mandarin chá / Hokkien te)

1

Chinese (Cantonese/Pidgin English)

1

Cantonese

1

Chinese (Hokkien/Cantonese via Pidgin English)

1

Chinese (Hokkien/Cantonese)

1

Tibetan (via Balti)

1

Old Turkic / Mongolian

1

Turkic / Mongolian

1

Old English (from Proto-Germanic)

1

Hindi (via Persian, from Chinese)

1

Guarani (via Spanish)

1

Arabic / Persian / Turkish (via French)

1

German (from Czech)

1

Japanese (from Chinese)

1

Dutch/Greek

1

Arabic / Persian / Urdu

1

Persian / Urdu

1

Tamil / Sanskrit

1

Russian / Caucasian

1

Middle English / Germanic

1

Scandinavian / Middle English

1

Old Norse / Scandinavian

1

English (from Inuit/Cree contact)

1

Arabic from Greek from Akkadian

1

Latin from Mesopotamian technology

1

Latin from ancient Near Eastern trade

1

English (coined from Tanzania)

1

Latin (from Gaulish)

1

English dialectal

1

Portuguese/Latin

1

Middle English / Old Norse

1

French/Latin

1

Javanese/Indonesian

1

Filipino (Tagalog)

1

Thai/Lao

1

Hokkien (Min Nan Chinese)

1

Amharic / Tigrinya

1

Amharic (via Italian)

1

Tigrinya / Amharic

1

English from Latin via Arabic

1

Wolof via French

1

Hindi (patti) via British India

1

Old French via medieval Latin via Byzantine Greek

1

Afar / East African

1

Swahili (from English)

1

Lithuanian (also Latvian: dziesma)

1

Portuguese (from Kimbundu/Bantu)

1

Spanish (Peruvian)

1

Turkish (from Persian)

1

Mandinka / Dyula (West Africa)

1

English from Tamil via French

1

Italian / French

1

English from Latin tuberosa

1

French from Latin and Greek

1

Arabic (for Egyptian concept)

1

Greek (via French)

1

English from Middle Low German

1

English from Portuguese mangue

1

Brazilian Portuguese / Spanish

1

Brazilian Portuguese from Bantu

1

Spanish/Basque

1

Gascon/Basque

1

English from Latin from Proto-Indo-European

1

English from Greek via Arabic

1

Late Greek / Medieval French

1

English from French, from Italian

1

English from French, possibly from Spanish or Arabic

1

Russian (from Kabardian/Nart languages)

1

Dutch (place name)

1

English from Old French / Latin

1

Spanish from indigenous (Cumanagoto / Timoto-Cuica)

1

Gujarati via Portuguese and English

1

Fula / West African Creole

1

Middle Low German / Scots

1

Kabi Kabi

1

Navajo

1

Spanish from Indigenous American languages

1

Spanish from a Philippine place name

1

Guarani

1

Chichewa

1

Congolese French

1

English from Chinook Jargon

1

Maghrebi Arabic

1

English from Faroese

1

Shawnee

1

Lushootseed

1

Lingala

1

Guernésiais

1

Lepcha

1

Rioplatense Spanish

1

Bugis

1

Maguindanaon

1

Galibi Carib

1

Chukchi

1

Duala

1

Tswana

1

Aboriginal Australian

1

Australian Aboriginal (Nyungar)

1

Nyungar

1

Hopi

1

Algonquian (Eastern)

1

Narragansett

1

Bulgarian

1

Abenaki

1

Halkomelem

1

Algonquian (Virginia)

1

Chinook Jargon (from Native American sources)

1

Medieval Latin from French

1

Byzantine Greek

1

Old French (from Latin milium)

1

Old English (from Proto-Germanic *kurną)

1

Old French (from Latin trulla)

1

German (via Swiss German)

1

Middle English (compound)

1

New Latin (from Greek tēle + skopeîn)

1

New Latin (from Greek thermós + métron)

1

English (from Latin ad + rēnālis)

1

Latin (from praecēdere, to go before)

1

French (from camarade, roommate)

1

Old English (from Proto-Germanic *habukaz)

1

Old French (from Latin aquila)

1

Old English (from niht + galan)

1

Old English (from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ)

1

English (compound, possibly from German/Dutch)

1

Old English (from Proto-Germanic *utraz)

1

Medieval Latin (from Greek telos)

1

English (from Guinea, West Africa)

1

Arabic (from Latin denarius)

1

Latin (through Old French sergent)

1

Italian (from Latin caballus)

1

Italian (from battaglia, 'battle')

1

Old French (from Latin traditio)

1

French (from Spanish estacada, from estaca, 'stake')

1

Latin (possibly from Celtic or Spanish)

1

Vulgar Latin (possibly from Latin mateola, 'mallet')

1

French (from Latin corium, 'leather')

1

English (waist + coat)

1

English (from Milan, Italy)

1

Old French (from Frankish *wrist, 'a band')

1

Spanish/Portuguese (possibly from Latin calamellus, 'little reed')

1

French (from fondre, 'to melt')

1

Cypriot Greek (possibly from Arabic ḥallūm)

1

Italian (origin debated; possibly from mascarpa, 'ricotta')

1

French (named after Louis de Béchameil, Marquis de Nointel)

1

French (meaning 'from Holland')

1

French (named after the Duke of Mirepoix)

1

French (from Spanish marinada, from marinar, 'to pickle in brine')

1

French (from Calvados, a department in Normandy)

1

Greek (via Latin dioecesis)

1

Latin (from libare, 'to pour')

1

Old French (uncertain)

1

French (disputed)

1

English (multiple origins)

1

Dutch / Middle English

1

Greek (via Italian and French)

1

Old Norse (via Scots)

1

English (calque from German)

1

Spanish (via French)

1

Old English (Germanic)

1

Old English (sibb + -ling)

1

Old French (from Middle Dutch/Germanic)

1

Gaulish (Celtic)

1

French (from Latin quartus)

1

English (American, origin unknown)

1

Old French (from Latin bajulare)

1

Italian (from bandire, 'to banish')

1

Italian (contra + bando, 'against the ban')

1

German (Pennsylvania Dutch dialect)

1

German (from the name Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit)

1

Italian (from Latin umbra, 'shadow')

1

Italian (from Latin gustus, 'taste')

1

Italian (from Latin muttum, 'a grunt')

1

Latin (via Portuguese pidgin in China)

1

Portuguese (from Malay/Sanskrit)

1

Italian (Tuscan)

1

French (from Wolof foño)

1

Yoruba / Pidgin English (West African)

1

Kikongo (Bantu)

1

West African Pidgin English (from Portuguese palavra)

1

Tsotsitaal (South African township slang)

1

Xhosa / Zulu

1

South African English (origin debated, possibly Shona/Ndebele)

1

Makonde (Bantu)

1

Zulu / Xhosa

1

Indonesian / Malay

1

Malay / Indonesian (from Pandanus)

1

Algonquian (Ojibwe/Cree)

1

Halkomelem (Salish)

1

English/Scottish Gaelic (adopted by Indigenous North Americans)

1

Spanish (from Nahuatl metatl)

1

Spanish (from Nahuatl centzontli)

1

English (from Old English bolster)

1

English (from Anglo-French hanaper, from hanap)

1

English (from Old French fausset, from fausser)

1

English (from Middle Dutch wagenschot)

1

Greek (coined 1866)

1

English (from Greek poly + German Ester)

1

French (from German + French)

1

German (toponym)

1

French (from Dutch)

1

Ancient Greek (modern coinage)

1

Medieval Latin (from Celtic)

1

Greek (from Hebrew)

1

Spanish (from Latin/Arabic)

1

Italian (from Arabic)

1

English (American slang)

1

Odia

1

English (American, possibly from chemise)

1

Portuguese (Brazilian)

1

French (Old French, from Germanic)

1

English (possibly Irish English)

1

Frankish / Medieval Latin

1

Middle Dutch / Middle High German

1

Dutch / German

1

Greek (from Persian)

1

Hindi (from Sanskrit valayin)

1

French (from Breton bizou)

1

Old English (from Proto-Germanic *dillaz)

1

Latin (from Greek khairéphyllon)

1

English (from Medieval Latin grana paradisi)

1

Latin (from Greek týrris)

1

Old French (from Latin baiulāre: to enclose)

1

French (from Italian scarpa: slope)

1

Middle English (from Middle Dutch lūpen: to peer)

1

Middle English (origin uncertain)

1

Low German / Middle Dutch

1

Latin (from facere: to do, to make)

1

Latin / Proto-Germanic

1

Latin/Polish (coined term)

1

Māori (Aotearoa/New Zealand)

1

Wolof (Senegal)

1

Serbian/Bosnian from Turkish

1

Yup'ik and Inupiaq

1

Mandinka (Mande languages, West Africa)

1

Galician

1

Germanic/Latin

1

English (based on Tibetan Shambhala)

1

Spanish (Andalusian/Romani)

1

Greek + Latin hybrid

1

English acronym

1

Igbo (Nnobi)

1

Serbian-American (eponym)

1

Fijian from Proto-Oceanic

1

Igbo (Central Africa)

1

Hungarian from possibly Slavic

1

Hausa/Fulani

1

Catalan

1

Hausa from West African languages

1

Cherokee

1

Italian via Maltese

1

Kurdish

1

Uzbek (from Persian)

1

Lakota

1

Greek/English

1

Haitian Creole/Fon

1

Guadeloupean Creole

1

Aymara/Quechua

1

Rapa Nui/Polynesian

1

K'iche' Maya

1

Sámi

1

Latin/Greek

1

Tongan/Polynesian

1

Kiribati

1

Russian from Yakut

1

Afro-Uruguayan from Kikongo/Kimbundu

1

Modern Latin hybrid

1

Pitjantjatjara (Australian Aboriginal language)

1

Uruguayan Spanish

1

River Plate Spanish

1

Pipil (Nahuatl variant)

1

Arabic (via Berber)

1

Arabic (via Libyan-Tunisian)

1

Spanish (Mexican colloquial)

1

French (origin disputed)

1

English/Latin

1

Algonquian (Mohegan-Pequot)

1

Muscogean / Spanish

1

Arabic (probable)

1

Arabic / Hindi

1

Arabic / Persian

1

Sanskrit / Hindi

1

Kikongo / Spanish

1

French Antillean Creole

1

Kimbundu / Portuguese

1

Ewe (Ghana/Togo)

1

Yoruba (Nigeria)

1

French / Arabic

1

Middle English / uncertain

1

Latin/French

1

English (slang)

1

Zulu/Ndebele

1

Zulu/Sotho (South African urban)

1

Maranao / Maguindanao (Filipino)

1

Tausug / Yakan (Philippines)

1

English (of Malay technical origin)

1

Syriac → Persian

1

Italian-American

1

French from Uzbek

1

English from Italian

1

Dutch/uncertain

1

French (from Galibi)

1

Latin (New Latin)

1

New Latin (from Greek)

1

French (Provençal)

1

Scots English

1

Japanese (from Dutch)

1

Malayalam / English

1

Urdu / Hindi / Persian

1

Arabic / English

1

Javanese/Malay

1

Malay/Indonesian

1

Latin from Aramaic

1

Arabic from Chinese

1

French from Indian trade

1

Bengali / Odia from Sanskrit

1

Sanskrit via Arabic

1

Old English from Proto-Germanic

1

Gandhari Prakrit

1

Mycenaean Greek

1

English (possibly Hindi)

1

Middle English (Scots)

1

French (eponym)

1

Old Norman French

1

Spanish from Carib

1

English (Old English roots)

1

French (from Greek)

1

English and Arabic

1

New Latin (eponymous)

1

Old French from Medieval Latin

1

Old French from Celtic

1