The Scholar's Path
Knowledge crossing borders
In libraries from Baghdad to Oxford, scholars preserved and transformed words, building bridges of understanding across cultures.
1828
Words
467
Languages
6
Themes
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Greek
192Latin170
French71
Italian51
Arabic51
Japanese44
German40
Sanskrit29
English25
Russian22
Yiddish22
Korean21
Spanish19
Malay18
Hebrew13
Hawaiian13
Nahuatl12
Akkadian11
Persian11
Tibetan10
Māori10
Zulu7
English from Latin
6Maori
6Greek (modern coinage)
5Javanese
5Latin (from Greek)
5Arabic / Urdu
5English from Old French
5Arabic/Persian
4Greek via Latin
4Sanskrit/Pali
4French (from Latin)
3Italian (from Latin)
3Dharug (Aboriginal Australian)
3Middle Dutch / Low German
3Pali3
Tupi3
Classical Chinese (Confucian)
3Thai3
Dharug (Australian Aboriginal)
3English (from Greek)
3Nyungar (Aboriginal Australian)
2Kalaallisut (Greenlandic Inuit)
2English from Old French from Latin
2Brazilian Portuguese
2English (uncertain origin)
2English (technical)
2French zoological usage from an African source
2English from Swahili (Bantu)
2English from Latin from Greek
2Persian / Urdu
2Portuguese / Spanish
2Serbo-Croatian
2Vietnamese
2Old Persian
2Hindi from Sanskrit
2Guaraní
2Hokkien Chinese
2English (scientific portmanteau)
2English (neologism)
2Arabic (from Egyptian)
2Modern Latin, named for a person
2Italian via French
2English (acronym)
2Irish / Scottish Gaelic
2Powhatan (Algonquian)
2Hindi / Sanskrit
2Narragansett (Algonquian)
2Yiddish from German
2Classical Chinese (Daoist)
2Thai from Sanskrit
2French (surname)
2Modern Latin
2Yiddish (from Hebrew)
2Spanish from Quechua
2Modern scientific Latin
1Brazilian Portuguese from Bantu
1Japanese (disputed)
1English (from Greek via Latin)
1West African (Mande languages, via French)
1Wemba-Wemba (Aboriginal Australian)
1Russian (from Kabardian/Nart languages)
1Turkic / Mongolian
1New Latin (named for Pierre Magnol, 1703)
1Australian Aboriginal (Nyungar)
1Arabic (probable origin)
1English from Arabic from Greek
1Kimbundu / Haitian Creole
1Latin (from Greek, possibly from Egyptian)
1English from Latin from Etruscan
1Yolŋu (Yolngu Matha)
1Algonquian (Narragansett/Cree)
1Russian (from Sami)
1Italian (from Greek)
1Old French via medieval Latin via Byzantine Greek
1Latin / Old French
1Tupi-Guaraní
1Unami Delaware (Algonquian)
1Middle English from Anglo-Norman French
1Malay (from Tupi via Portuguese)
1Bantu (various)
1Bavarian German
1Greek (place name)
1Algonquian (Massachusett/Abenaki)
1Old French (possibly Greek)
1Massachusett / Narragansett (Algonquian)
1English from Old French from Medieval Latin
1Narragansett Algonquian (New England)
1Tupi-Guarani (via French)
1Low German / Scandinavian
1Romani-influenced English
1Lingala
1Muscogee (Creek)
1English (nautical)
1French (possibly from Hebrew)
1Polynesian (Oceanic)
1Spanish (quince + años + -era)
1Old French from Latin
1Algonquian (Virginia)
1English from Russian (proper name)
1English (early modern, from Dutch or Low German)
1Pali / Sanskrit
1Wiradjuri (Australian Aboriginal)
1French (from Savoyard dialect)
1French (proper name)
1Sanskrit/Hindi
1English (origin uncertain)
1Yupik / Inupiaq
1Kimbundu
1English (from Latin)
1Ancient Egyptian/Greek
1Algonquian (via Spanish)
1Swedish (surname)
1Spanish (origin disputed)
1Greek (via French)
1English (possibly from Wolof)
1Old Irish
1French (from Greek)
1English from Chinook Jargon
1Cantonese via Malay
1Persian (via Greek and Latin)
1Inuvialuktun
1Spanish (origin disputed; possibly Tertullian)
1Urdu
1Georgian (from Arabic)
1Mi'kmaq (Algonquian)
1Russian from Siberian languages
1Powhatan Algonquian (Virginia)
1Greek + Latin
1Hebrew (via Greek and Latin)
1Greek / Latin
1Malay (via Persian)
1Romani (from Sanskrit)
1English (pseudo-Latin, origin uncertain)
1Greek (disputed: possibly from Italian or Turkish)
1French from Old French
1Italian (from Latin/Greek)
1Lese (DRC)
1Spanish (from Latin mixtus)
1English from Portuguese mangue
1Javanese / Malay
1Amharic / Ge'ez
1Mande
1Cree (Algonquian)
1English (coined from Tanzania)
1Sumerian / Akkadian
1Sanskrit / Tibetan
1Scottish English (possibly Old French)
1Persian (via Dutch and Low German)
1Arabic via Medieval Latin
1English dialectal
1Urdu/Hindi from Persian
1Serbian
1Akan (Asante/Ghana)
1English (from Labrador, Canada)
1Lao1