Words of War
Language born from conflict
Wars destroy, but they also create — new borders, new alliances, and new words that outlast the battles that birthed them.
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Languages
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Latin545
Greek
328Old English210
French198
Old French155
Italian131
English118
Japanese92
Arabic78
German74
Spanish47
Russian45
Korean41
Yiddish41
Sanskrit36
Persian35
Dutch33
Nahuatl28
Malay26
Quechua22
Turkish19
Hebrew19
Tamil18
Hindi17
Thai16
Tibetan16
Māori15
Hawaiian12
Tagalog12
Latin (from Greek)
12Dharug11
Amharic11
English from Old French
11Georgian11
Romani11
Finnish10
Basque10
English from Latin
9French (from Latin)
8Greek (modern coinage)
7Arabic / Urdu
7English (compound)
7Arabic/Persian
5Hindi/Urdu from Persian
5Italian (from Latin)
5Zulu5
English from French
5French from Latin
5English (eponym)
4Chinese
4Maori
4Javanese
4English from French from Latin
4English from Old French from Latin
4Old French from Latin
4Turkic
4Latin/English
4Greek via Latin
4English (origin uncertain)
4Pali4
English (American)
4Pashto
4Oromo
4Kimbundu (Angola)
3Afrikaans from Dutch
3English (uncertain origin)
3Thai from Sanskrit
3Yiddish (from Hebrew)
3Greek (via Latin)
3Middle Dutch / Low German
3Old Persian
3Greek + Latin
3French (eponym)
3Tupi3
Low German / Dutch
3Rapa Nui
3Hindi / Sanskrit
3Hindi (from Sanskrit)
3Dharug (Australian Aboriginal)
3English from Swahili (Bantu)
3Modern Latin from Greek
3Modern Latin, named for a person
3Classical Chinese (Confucian)
3Nyungar (Aboriginal Australian)
3Old Norse / Scandinavian
3Latin (via Old French)
3English (nautical)
3Babylonian (Akkadian)
3Brazilian Portuguese
3Middle English (origin uncertain)
3Latin (modern coinage)
3Burmese
3Samoan
3Sanskrit/Hindi
3Mapudungun
3English from Arabic
2Swahili from Arabic
2Spanish/Portuguese
2Persian via Hindi
2Powhatan (Algonquian)
2Italian from Germanic
2German from Latin
2Venetian Italian
2Japanese from Chinese
2Greek from Turkish
2Arabic via Spanish
2Italian (Venetian)
2Afrikaans (from Dutch)
2German (Swiss dialect)
2German (surname)
2Latin/Italian
2Hindi/Marathi
2English (acronym)
2English (technical)
2Old Church Slavonic
2Old Irish
2Middle English / Old French
2English (neologism)
2Spanish from Latin
2Italian from Greek
2English (from Latin)
2English (personal name)
2Urdu / Persian
2English from Hindi (place name)
2Hindi from Sanskrit
2English (scientific portmanteau)
2Serbian/Croatian
2Irish English
2Ojibwe (Algonquian)
2Narragansett (Algonquian)
2English from Medieval Latin
2Romani (from Sanskrit)
2English (surname)
2Spanish from Quechua
2French from Italian
2Dharug (Aboriginal Australian)
2Irish / Scottish Gaelic
2Javanese / Malay
2Old Norse / Old Swedish
2Tupi (via Portuguese)
2Turkish / Persian
2Italian via French
2Cantonese
2Arabic / Persian / Urdu
2Dutch / German
2French/Latin
2Latin from Greek
2Swahili (from Arabic)
2Old Norman French
2Old French via Middle English
2English from Old English
2Spanish / Portuguese
2Guaraní
2Serbian
2English (place name)
2French (disputed)
2Old French (from Latin)
2Old French (from Frankish)
2Proto-Germanic
2Tagalog (Filipino)
2Medieval Latin (from Celtic)
2Modern Greek (coined)
2Lakota
2Navajo
2Kurdish
2Aymara
2Tahitian
2Nenets
2Modern Latin hybrid
2uncertain
2English/French
2Akan
2Arabic / Persian
2English (South African)
2Zulu (South African)
2English from Arabic/Persian
1English from Nahuatl
1English from Tahitian/Samoan
1English from Dharug (Aboriginal Australian)
1English from Japanese/Chinese
1English from Persian/Arabic
1English from Chinese
1English from Arabic/Persian/Sanskrit
1English from Malay/Kannada
1English from Yiddish/Polish
1English from Old Norse
1Greek (place name)
1Taíno/Arawakan
1Yiddish from Hebrew
1Turkish via Latin from Persian
1Mongolic/Turkic
1Urdu/Persian
1Persian from Mongol
1Turkic/Mongol via Russian
1Yiddish from German
1Hindi/Urdu
1Old Norse/Icelandic
1Fon/Ewe (West African)
1Polynesian (Oceanic)
1Nahuatl (Aztec)
1Greek (medical Latin coinage)
1Cantonese/Mandarin Chinese
1Turkic (via Russian)
1English (brand name)
1English (possibly from Wolof)
1Russian (from Sami)
1Russian (from Turkic/Mongolian)
1Russian (from Slavic)
1Dutch (from Old Norse)
1Taino/Arawak
1Greek from Phoenician
1Latin from Italian
1Hebrew via Medieval Latin
1Ancient Greek (possibly pre-Greek)
1Latin via English
1Spanish/Portuguese from Provençal/Germanic
1Dutch/Norse
1Italian/Basque
1Greek (coined 1789)
1Italian (from a place name)
1Old French from Latin/Greek
1French from Croatian
1Arabic via Italian
1Korean from Japanese
1English from Quechua/Mapudungun
1English from Quechua
1English from Quechua/Aymara
1English (New Zealand marketing)
1English from Malay
1Māori/Polynesian
1Mexican Spanish (from a name)
1Spanish (diminutive)
1Italian (brand name)
1Valencian/Catalan
1Dhivehi (Maldivian)
1Inuit (Kalaallisut)
1Algonquian (Mi'kmaq/Abenaki)
1Medieval Italian
1Italian (from Germanic)
1Latin (via Vatican usage)
1Algonquian (Illinois/Miami)
1Italian (from Celtic/Gaulish)
1Sicilian/Italian
1Hungarian (from Turkic)
1American English (coined)
1English (RAF slang, origin unknown)
1Dutch (via Spanish and French)
1Mande (West African)
1English (from Crimean place name)
1French (from Italian, from Medieval Latin, from Arabic)
1Arabic (possibly from Greek)
1Old French (from Germanic)
1English (from Hebrew via place name)
1Sanskrit (via Portuguese and Persian)
1Spanish (from Carib/Taino)
1English (from Irish surname)
1Greek (from Hebrew qanna'im)
1American English (from a surname)
1Neo-Latin (coined from Greek)
1French (from German/Dutch)
1English (from a surname)
1Italian (from Latin/Greek)
1English (medieval coinage)
1Greek (coined 1817)
1Greek (from Carian name)
1French / Italian
1American English (coined 1907)
1English (from literary character)
1Latin / Etruscan
1Lenape (Munsee Delaware)
1American English (origin unknown)
1French (from Greek)
1Ottoman Turkish / Arabic
1Arabic / Persian / Turkish
1Sanskrit/Persian
1Norman French
1Bantu (Kongo)
1Kimbundu / Haitian Creole
1Turkish/Arabic
1Welsh English
1Nenets (via Russian)
1English (from Irish/Joycean)
1Latin / Old French
1Algonquian (Powhatan/Renápe)
1French (proper name)
1Old Irish / Welsh
1Gaulish / Old Celtic
1Dutch/Middle Dutch
1Persian / Hindustani
1Persian / Old Iranian
1Gaulish via Latin
1Yagara
1French from Franco-Provençal
1English (calque from multiple indigenous languages)
1Afrikaans from Portuguese
1Persian/Tajik
1English (from Hindi/Persian)
1Akan (Asante/Ghana)
1Scottish English (possibly Old French)
1French (from Cambrai)
1Italian/French
1Italian (Florentine)
1Middle Dutch / Middle English
1English (origin disputed)
1English (from Old French and Anglo-Norman)
1French/Italian (origin debated)
1New Latin (from Greek)
1Marshallese / French
1French (personal name)
1Gascon French
1Cree
1Italian / Latin
1Latin (via English)
1Latin (from Greek, possibly from Egyptian)
1Greek / Latin
1French (from Savoyard dialect)
1Spanish (from Latin)
1Yoruba (via Hausa)
1Shona
1Modern Latin (from Greek)
1Anglo-French (from Latin)
1Old French (from Medieval Latin)
1New Latin (named for Pierre Magnol, 1703)
1New Latin (named 1789, for Louis Antoine de Bougainville)
1Greek (from akis, a point or thorn)
1New Latin (named 1753, for Georg Josef Kamel)
1New Latin (named 1821, for Stamford Raffles)
1Hindi/Urdu from Sanskrit
1Urdu/Hindi from Persian
1English (Latin/scientific coinage)
1Modern Latin (scientific)
1Dutch / Portuguese
1Portuguese (from Malay)
1Portuguese / Spanish
1Portuguese (from Fiot/Bantu)
1Pali / Sanskrit
1Sanskrit / Tibetan
1French (from Swiss dialect)
1Tibetan / Dzongkha
1Serbian/South Slavic
1Czech/Slovak
1Russian (from Old Norse)
1Medieval Latin / Celtic
1Ukrainian/Turkic
1Russian/Latin
1Massachusett (Algonquian)
1Massachusett / Narragansett (Algonquian)
1Mi'kmaq (Algonquian)
1Nuu-chah-nulth (Wakashan)
1Papuan Malay (via Malay)
1Arabic (via Malay/Tamil)
1Tswana (Bantu)
1Zulu/Xhosa
1Samoan / Proto-Polynesian
1Ottoman Turkish / Persian
1Latin / Hungarian military tradition
1Hungarian (personal name)
1Polish / Turkic origin
1English (disputed: possibly from Hungarian bocskai)
1Chinese (origin debated)
1Dutch / Middle Dutch
1Middle Dutch / Old Norse
1Malay (place name)
1Hindi / Malay
1Anglo-Indian English (from British slang, adopted into Hindi)
1Urdu / Hindi (from Persian, from Arabic)
1Urdu / Persian (from Arabic)
1Tamil / Sanskrit (via Portuguese)
1Hindi / Urdu (hybrid of English + Arabic)
1Spanish (from Basque)
1Spanish (from Chincha, Quechua)
1Spanish (possibly from Portuguese or Khoikhoi)
1Mexican Spanish (from Nahuatl)
1Hebrew / Aramaic
1Old Welsh / Common Brythonic
1Cornish / Brythonic substrate
1Welsh / Brythonic Celtic
1English (origin obscure)
1French (from the Tatar peoples)
1English via Arabic
1Hindi via English
1English (from Madras, India)
1English via French
1English via Spanish
1Nyulnyul / Gangulu (Australian Aboriginal)
1Yuwaalaraay (Australian Aboriginal)
1Yagara (Australian Aboriginal)
1Middle Low German / Dutch
1Old Provençal / Old French
1New Latin (from German)
1English from Portuguese from Khmer
1English from Italian / Latin
1English from Old French / Latin
1Filipino Spanish / Tagalog
1Vietnamese (from French)
1Italian/Spanish
1Spanish (Colombian)
1Spanish (Dominican)
1Amharic / Ge'ez
1Chinook Jargon / English
1Occitan / French
1Italian / Arabic
1Hausa / Twi
1German / Latin
1Venetian / Greek
1Arabic (from Egyptian)
1Ancient Egyptian (via Latin)
1English from Dutch/German via French
1English from Middle High German via French
1English from Spanish or French
1English from Swahili from Arabic
1English from Ga (Ghana)
1English from Swahili from Arabic from Akkadian
1English from Afrikaans
1English from Zulu / Tsonga (Bantu)
1Georgian (from Arabic)
1Abkhazian
1English from Japanese from Chinese
1English from Japanese
1Romani (from Ossetic/Iranian)
1Romani (via Persian)
1English from Middle French from Latin
1English from Dutch
1English from Old French from Medieval Latin
1Persian/Arabic
1English (technical portmanteau)
1Akkadian / Sumerian tradition
1Italian (surname)
1Swedish (surname)
1French (surname)
1English (surname blend)
1Norwegian (surname)
1Thai from Pali/Sanskrit
1Lao/Thai
1Thai from Malay
1Catalan / Occitan
1French (possibly Frankish)
1Old French (possibly Greek)
1French (from Turkish)
1Latin (from Semitic)
1Chinese Pidgin English
1Italian (from Arabic lisān al-Faranī)
1Jamaican Creole (from Bube dupe or related Bantu/Igbo forms)
1Jamaican Creole (from Igbo/Twi/West African, possibly from Hebrew via Arabic)
1Caribbean Creole (Trinidad, Guyana, St. Vincent — from Kikongo nzambi or related Bantu)
1Trinidad Creole (origin disputed: West African kaiso, or possibly French Caribbean créole)
1English (onomatopoeic, origin uncertain)
1English from Russian (proper name)
1Spanish (from Caribbean origin, possibly Arawakan)
1Latin (possibly from Iberian Celtic or pre-Latin Alpine source)
1English (early modern, from Dutch or Low German)
1English (Caribbean colonial)
1English naval slang
1Italian (from Langobardic)
1Latin place name
1Latin from Greek (Phasis, Colchis)
1Arabic / French place name
1Latin from Greek (Troy)
1Akkadian / Hebrew place name
1Yupik / Inupiaq
1English from Mahlemut (Inupiaq people name)
1Portuguese, from Sanskrit/Gujarati tānkī
1Classical Chinese (strategic/aesthetic)
1Classical Chinese (Neo-Confucian)
1Spanish (from duen de casa)
1Spanish (tele + novela)
1Spanish (correr + de + toro)
1Spanish (from Quechua or Mapuche; origin disputed)
1Powhatan Algonquian (Virginia)
1Lakota (Siouan)
1Natick (Massachusetts Algonquian)
1Narragansett Algonquian (New England)
1Muscogee (Creek)
1Cree (Algonquian)
1Unami Delaware (Algonquian)
1English place name
1Italian (from Medieval Latin)
1Yuwaalaraay (Aboriginal Australian)
1Jagera / Turrbal (Aboriginal Australian)
1Scottish Gaelic / Old French
1Irish (place name)
1Welsh / Celtic
1Celtic / Old French
1Malay / Indonesian
1Malay (via Persian)
1Low German / Scandinavian
1Russian (from Turkic)
1Temne / Mandinka
1Kikongo / Kimbundu
1Persian (via Latin)
1Persian (via Old French)
1Persian (via Greek and Latin)
1Tupi (via Portuguese/French)
1Uncertain (possibly Mayan/Arawak)
1Rumsen Ohlone
1Algonquian (Abenaki/Powhatan)
1Hawaiian / Proto-Polynesian
1Turkish / Arabic
1Nigerian English
1Ghanaian English
1Louisiana Creole French
1Ancient Egyptian/Greek
1Okinawan / Japanese
1Middle English from Latin
1Old English via Old Norse
1Arabic (place name)
1Chinese (Cantonese/Pidgin English)
1Chinese (Hokkien/Cantonese via Pidgin English)
1Chinese (Hokkien/Cantonese)
1Tibetan (via Balti)
1Old Turkic / Mongolian
1Turkic / Mongolian
1Old English (from Proto-Germanic)
1Greek (via Latin and French)
1Hindi (via Persian, from Chinese)
1Arabic / Persian / Turkish (via French)
1German (from Czech)
1Dutch/Greek
1English (coined 1977)
1Persian / Urdu
1Tamil / Sanskrit
1Russian / Caucasian
1Middle English / Germanic
1Scandinavian / Middle English
1Modern English (coined from Greek)
1English (from Inuit/Cree contact)
1Inuvialuktun
1Arabic from Greek from Akkadian
1Latin from Mesopotamian technology
1Latin from ancient Near Eastern trade
1Russian (from Greek name)
1Sinhalese
1English (from German surname Kunz)
1English (from Labrador, Canada)
1Latin (from Gaulish)
1English dialectal
1Latin (humorous misuse)
1Greek (via Latin/French)
1Greek/Italian
1Portuguese/Latin
1Anglo-French/Latin
1Old French/Latin
1Hawaiian / Polynesian
1Hokkien (Min Nan Chinese)
1Amharic (via Italian)
1Tigrinya / Amharic
1Arabic via Medieval Latin
1Hindi / Punjabi
1Hindi (patti) via British India
1Old French via medieval Latin via Byzantine Greek
1Latin via Old French
1Afar / East African
1Swahili (from English)
1Lithuanian (also Latvian: dziesma)
1Latvian and Lithuanian
1Portuguese (from Kimbundu/Bantu)
1Turkish (from Persian)
1Mandinka / Dyula (West Africa)
1Sanskrit/Pali
1Old French / Latin
1Middle Low German
1English from Tamil via French
1English from French, ultimately Arabic
1English from Greek via Latin
1Italian / French
1French — the name Cyprus
1English from Latin tuberosa
1Biblical Hebrew
1French from Latin and Greek
1Sumerian / Akkadian
1Romani-influenced English
1Ancient Greek (from Egyptian)
1Arabic (for Egyptian concept)
1Arabic (for Egyptian structure)
1Greek (via French)
1Greek via Modern Latin
1English from Middle Low German
1Brazilian Portuguese / Spanish
1English from Latin from Proto-Indo-European
1English from Latin from Etruscan
1English from Old Norse / Proto-Germanic
1Late Greek / Medieval French
1English from French, from Italian
1English from Italian
1English from French, possibly from Spanish or Arabic
1Russian (from Kabardian/Nart languages)
1French (place name)
1English from Latin via French
1Old English from Proto-Germanic
1Spanish from indigenous (Cumanagoto / Timoto-Cuica)
1Gujarati via Portuguese and English
1Modern scientific Latin
1Fula / West African Creole
1Punjabi/Sanskrit
1Middle Low German / Scots
1Lao1
Australian Aboriginal
1Spanish from a Philippine place name
1Twi1