More word class ratios determined in more languages will no doubt ultimately answer the question.

Also from there is the word bung, from the Sydney pidgin English ( and ultimately from the Sydney Aboriginal language ), meaning " dead ", with some extension to " broken " or " useless ".

However, perhaps it is ultimately taken from the Persian word for brass, birinj.

The word clock is derived ultimately ( via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin ) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning " bell ".

The word derives ultimately from vitula, meaning a stringed instrument.

The name " coyote " is borrowed from Mexican Spanish coyote, ultimately derived from the Nahuatl word cóyotl.

The two meanings of critical theory — from different intellectual traditions associated with the meaning of criticism and critique — derive ultimately from the Greek word kritikos meaning judgment or discernment, and in their present forms go back to the 18th century.

It is ultimately derived from mousa, the Greek word for muse.

are all ultimately borrowings of the French word.

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

Their use of the word " gay " represented a new unapologetic defiance — as an antonym for " straight " (' respectable sexual behaviour '), it encompassed a range of non-normative sexualities and gender expressions, such as transgender street prostitutes, and sought ultimately to free the bisexual potential in everyone, rendering obsolete the categories of homosexual and heterosexual.

The English word howitzer originates ultimately from the Czech word houfnice.

The English word " jackal " derives from Persian, via Turkish çakal, ultimately from Sanskrit.

This has been said to derive from the παν-" all " and θήρ from θηρευτής " predator ", meaning " predator of all " ( animals ), though this may be a folk etymology — it may instead be ultimately of Sanskrit origin, from pundarikam, the Sanskrit word for " tiger ".

The origins of this word lie in the Old Javanese and thus ultimately in the Sanskrit language.

The word is derived from knot and ultimately from the Old English cnyttan, to knot.

The word was adopted into English in the nineteenth century from medieval Icelandic treatises on poetics, in particular the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, and derives ultimately from the Old Norse verb kenna “ know, recognise ; perceive, feel ; show ; teach ; etc .”, as used in the expression kenna við “ to name after ; to express thing in terms of ”, “ name after ; refer to in terms of ”, and kenna til “ qualify by, make into a kenning by adding ”.

The English word " language " derives ultimately from Indo-European " tongue, speech, language " through Latin lingua, " language, tongue ", and Old French langage " language ".

The word entered English from a French word which probably derived from Italian moschea, a variant of Italian moscheta, from either Armenian mzkiṭ or Greek μασγίδιον, from Arabic masjid, meaning " place of worship " or " prostration in prayer ", from the Arabic sajada, meaning " to bow down in prayer " or " worship ", probably ultimately of Aramaic origin.

The word derives from Latin olīva which is cognate with the Greek ἐλαία ( elaía ) ultimately from Mycenaean Greek e-ra-wa (" elaiva "), attested in Linear B syllabic script.

The word ' oil ' in multiple languages ultimately derives from the name of this tree and its fruit.

The term pharaoh ultimately was derived from a compound word represented as, written with the two biliteral hieroglyphs " house " and " column ".

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

The word " acoustic " is derived from the Greek word ακουστικός ( akoustikos ), meaning " of or for hearing, ready to hear " and that from ἀκουστός ( akoustos ), " heard, audible ", which in turn derives from the verb ἀκούω ( akouo ), " I hear ".

The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ( ankura ).

The English word amber derives from the Arabic anbar, via Medieval Latin ambar and Old French ambre.

The word " furlong " itself derives from the fact that it is one furrow long.

It derives from the Greek root ἄλλος, and alius ( Latin ) meaning " other "; then the word αλληλους, allelos, meaning " each other ".

From Thespis ' name derives the word thespian.

The word analgesic derives from Greek αν-(" without ") and άλγος-(" pain ").

The name derives from a Brythonic word Gobannia meaning " river of the blacksmiths ", and relates to the town's pre-Roman importance in iron smelting.

The feast was also known as Céad Shamhain or Cétshamhainin from which the word Céitean derives.

Bald Eagles are not actually bald, the name derives from the older meaning of the word, " white headed ".

The English word breast derives from the Old English word brēost ( breast, bosom ) from Proto-Germanic breustam ( breast ), from the Proto-Indo-European base bhreus – ( to swell, to sprout ).

Kenneth Jackson concludes, based on later development of Welsh and Irish, that it derives from the Proto-Celtic feminine adjective * boudīka, " victorious ", derived from the Celtic word * bouda, " victory " ( cf.

The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

The use of the word borough probably derives from the burghal system of Alfred the Great.

The word borough derives from the Old English word burh, meaning a fortified settlement.

This word derives from the Greek Βάρβαρος-ου, which means stuttering.

Its English name, chive, derives from the French word cive, from cepa, the Latin word for onion.