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geardaddy

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16. "tea" comes from Min-nan (Taiwanese Hokkien)

Reply to Betty Karlson (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 01:43 PM

Jan 2012

Te: From tê in Amoy dialect, spoken in Fujian Province and Taiwan. It reached the West from the port of Xiamen (Amoy), once a major point of contact with Western European traders such as the Dutch, who spread it to Western Europe.

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Languages you didn't know you borrow words from (1) [View all] Betty Karlson Dec 2011 OP

English's usage of "do" as a dummy verb is a Welsh influence. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #1

That would be a grammatical substratum. Betty Karlson Dec 2011 #2

A borrowing from French is our use of the object pronouns as emphatics Lydia Leftcoast Dec 2011 #4

And the Italians would say "Sono io" I am I Starboard Tack Dec 2011 #5

English has to some extent been absorbed into the West Romance sprachbund. Odin2005 Jan 2012 #18

That is not exactly right. OldEurope Jun 2015 #29

There is a strong Old Norse adstratum. Odin2005 Jan 2012 #17

Case and gender still survive in English, Lionel Mandrake Aug 2014 #28

In the case of "do you speak English" Welsh doesn't change word order for a question geardaddy Dec 2011 #3

The Celtic languages are awesome. Odin2005 Jan 2012 #19

Yep! geardaddy Jan 2012 #20

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Interesting! geardaddy Jul 2013 #25

messed up refrescanos Jul 2013 #26

Two borrowings from Japanese: Lydia Leftcoast Dec 2011 #6

I thought Tycoon was Chinese. pink-o Jan 2012 #7

Typhoon is Chinese geardaddy Jan 2012 #10

That's Interesting. Wolf Frankula Jan 2012 #8

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Pidgin geardaddy Jan 2012 #11

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Hindi: Shampoo and Pajamas pink-o Jan 2012 #13

I think Thug comes from Hindi, too. geardaddy Jan 2012 #14

Other words from Arabic A777 Jan 2012 #15

Same with zero, alcohol, algebra, several names of stars (Altair, Betelgeuse), and magazine NuclearDem Jul 2013 #27

"tea" comes from Min-nan (Taiwanese Hokkien) geardaddy Jan 2012 #16

'Boondocks' comes from Tagalog RZM Jan 2012 #21

"Amok" as in "run amok" comes from Malay Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2012 #22

I was going to enter "Amok", you beat me to it.. years ago! vkkv Mar 2016 #30

Spam deleted by MaineDem (MIR Team) bestbagsforu Apr 2012 #23