The German dialects of South Tyrol have been influenced by local Romance languages, in particular with many loan words from Italian, and Ladin.

Through the long contact with Romance languages, Basque adopted a sizable number of Romance words.

Cohabitation with the Scandinavians resulted in a significant grammatical simplification and lexical enrichment of the Anglo-Frisian core of English ; the later Norman occupation led to the grafting onto that Germanic core of a more elaborate layer of words from the Romance branch of the European languages.

The current Romance language spoken, Galego, has many words of Celtic origin and is the ancestor of the Portuguese language used mainly in Brazil and Portugal.

The term was not endemic to Romance languages ( e. g. native words for " forest " in the Romance languages evolved out of the Latin word silva " forest, wood " ( English sylvan ); cf.

The Hungarians migrated to the Carpathian Basin around 896 and came into contact with Slavic peoples – as well as with the Romance speaking Vlachs, borrowing many words from them ( for example tégla – " brick ", mák – " poppy ", or karácsony – " Christmas ").

Though the language is typically Romance, some words in the language are not of Latin origin, and often are of uncertain etymology.

Sometimes the loanword has a slightly different meaning from the native Turkish word, creating a situation similar to the coexistence of Germanic and Romance words in English ( see List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents ).

In the alphabets of most modern Romance languages ( excepting far northern French and Walloon ), W is used mostly in foreign names and words recently borrowed ( le week-end, il watt, el kiwi ).

Cornelian, cognate with similar words in several Romance languages, comes from the Mediaeval Latin corneolus, itself derived from the Latin word cornum, the cornel cherry, whose translucent red fruits resemble the stone.

In other words, unlike other Romance languages, French is neither a null subject language nor a pronoun-dropping language.

Vulgar Latin featured a large vocabulary of words that were productive in Romance.

The latter's name is source of numerous words in English and the Romance languages, including the word " money ".

By testing historically verifiable cases where we have knowledge of t through non-linguistic data ( e. g. the approximate distance from Classical Latin to modern Romance languages ), Swadesh arrived at the empirical value of approximately 0. 14 for L ( meaning that the rate of replacement constitutes around 14 words from the 100-wordlist per millennium ).

In Greek, words deriving from polis include politēs and politismos, whose exact equivalents in Latin, Romance and other European languages, respectively civis ( citizen ), civilisatio ( civilization ) etc.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature ; it has a total of 800, 000 words and nearly a thousand dramatic characters ( mostly historical ) in 120 chapters.

The words " prefect " and " prefecture " are also used, more or less conventionally, to render analogous words in other languages, especially Romance languages.

He is similar to the Guan Yu depicted in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, except for some words and his weapon.

The first contains words common to two at least of the three principal groups of Romance -- Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, and Provençal and French.

German Dachs, Dutch das, Norwegian svin-toks ; Early Modern English: dasse ), probably from the PIE root * tek '- " to construct ," so the badger would have been named after its digging of setts ( tunnels ); the Germanic term * þahsu-became taxus or taxō ,-ōnis in Latin glosses, replacing mēlēs (" marten " or " badger "), and from these words the common Romance terms for the animal evolved ( Italian tasso, French tesson / taisson / tasson – now blaireau is more common –, Catalan toixó, Spanish tejón, Portuguese texugo ).

Some Gaulish words influenced Vulgar Latin and, through this, other Romance languages.

In certain obscure magical writings of Egyptian origin ἀβραξάς or ἀβρασάξ is found associated with other names which frequently accompany it on gems ; it is also found on the Greek metal tesseræ among other mystic words.

Although Afrikaans adopted words from languages such as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu languages, and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95 percent of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin.

Category: English words and phrases of foreign origin

The censors ' regulation of public morality is the origin of the modern meaning of the words " censor " and " censorship.

In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common etymological origin.

False cognates are words that are commonly thought to be related ( have a common origin ) whereas linguistic examination reveals they are unrelated.

False cognates arise in the same way as false or folk etymology, spurious explanations for the origin of words.

The construction involves replacing a common word with a rhyming phrase of two or three words and then, in almost all cases, omitting the secondary rhyming word, in a process called hemiteleia, making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.

The use of rhyming slang has spread beyond the purely dialectal and some examples are to be found in the mainstream British English lexicon and internationally, although many users may be unaware of the origin of those words.

( In these examples and many subsequent ones the final step of hemiteleia has been omitted in order to allow the reader more readily to trace the origin of the substituted words ).

The study of placenames is called toponymy, while that of the origin and historical usage of placenames as words is etymology.

In other words, the apparent velocity in the rotating frame is altered by the amount of the apparent rotation at each point, which is perpendicular to both the vector from the origin and the axis of rotation and directly proportional in magnitude to each of them.

There are also numerous words of Genoese and Ponzese origin.

The first steps toward the modern restaurant were locations that offered restorative bouillons, or restaurants – these words being the origin of the name " restaurant ".

The term should be distinguished from " false cognates ", which are similar words in different languages that appear to have a common historical linguistic origin ( whatever their current meaning ) but actually do not.

Demand in English and demande in French or domanda in Italian are representative of a particularly treacherous sort of false friend, in which – despite a common origin – the words have differently shaded meanings.

An estimated 12 % of the English vocabulary has Greek origin, while numerous Greek words have English derivatives.

The Treasury Department subsequently stated that the country of origin markings of goods from the West Bank and Gaza shall not contain the words " Israel ", " Made in Israel ", " Occupied Territories-Israel ", or words of similar meaning.

In some words of French origin, the " soft G " is pronounced as a fricative (), as in rouge, beige, and genre.

There are many English words of non-Romance origin where ⟨ g ⟩ is hard though followed by ⟨ e ⟩ or ⟨ i ⟩ ( e. g. get, gift ), and a few in which ⟨ g ⟩ is soft though followed by ⟨ a ⟩ ( margarine ).

Danish and Norwegian settlement made enough of an impact to leave significant traces in the English language ; many fundamental words in modern English are derived from Old Norse, though of the 100 most used words in English the vast majority are Old English in origin.