I knew all of the above words, except Juggernaut. Didn’t know it was derived from Jagannath (there’s a temple by that name too), which is a combo word made up of Jagan (World) + nath (in itself, it would mean husband, but here it means lord). I guess there should be many m...
1语法填空Do you speak any Indian languages? Actually, if youspeak English, chances are you do; at least some Indianwords, anyway.Most of the Indian vocabulary 1use) byEnglish speakers arrived in Britain in the 19th centurybecause 2 the days of British rule in India and are nowheard everywh...
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words to new uses, but they were content to borrow names from the local Indian languages for unknown trees, such ashickoryandpersimmonand for unfamiliar animals, such asraccoonandwoodchuck. Later they took words from foreign settlers:chowderandprairiefrom the French,scowandsleighfrom the Dutch. ...
Dennis KurzonKurzon, D. (2008). Indian languages: Hidden English in texts and society. In R. Kowner & J. Rosenhouse (Eds.), Globally speaking motives for adopting English vocabulary in other languages (pp. 208-226). Cleveden: Multilingual Matters....
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languages, “words can be compounded to any extent,” so that “the languages [are] essentially polysyllabic, and…monosyllables are rarely to be found” (1832). Unlike Benjamin Barton (New views on the origins of the tribes and nations of America, 1797), Duponceau wrote that Indian langua...
German, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, French, Arabic, Armenian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Yiddish, Indian, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Malayan, to a different extent, took part in the process of the transfer of the Turkic words into English. The main language from which the borrowings were made,...
The term "English" is derived fromAnglisc, thespeechof the Angles—one of the three Germanic tribes that invaded England during the fifth century. The English language is the primarylanguageof several countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and many of its former...
z Changes in the English vocabulary in this period: the loss of a large part of the Old English word stock and the adoption of thousands of French words (mostly derived originally from Latin) e.g.A.Law and governmental administration: judge, jury, justice, government, parliament, state, ...