What are such words called ?
2006-10-05 23:04:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Depending on how you look at it, the majority of English words are not originally English.
You could call them foreign loan words or whatever you want.
The best way is to get your hands on an "etymological dictionary." This is a dictionary that not only gives the definition of words, but gives their origins.
Very interesting stuff!
English has plenty of words from French as you've noted, but there are a lot from German and other languages too.
2006-10-05 23:07:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mardi Gras Panache à la carte A la mode Debut apres ski Double entendre aperitif Femme Fatale
Frottage Rendez Vous Voyerism au naturel. au pair creme de la creme
loads more on: http://french.about.com/library/bl-frenchinenglish-list.htm
2006-10-06 06:15:26 · answer #2 · answered by leicestertroy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Words of Indian origin...
Bungalow
Lathi
Aunty
2006-10-06 06:14:59 · answer #3 · answered by BignTall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about rendezvous? I call them french words that have become part of our english language. Souffle is another one. i would have more if you asked for Spanish. I'm not a big French girl.
2006-10-06 06:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alchohol
is an arabic word
pyjama
is iranian word
2006-10-06 06:15:08 · answer #5 · answered by anna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
words like...
in vogue, bon voyage,
ab initio, in vitro, vox populi, ad hoc, doux reve, billet doux...
i think these kind of words ur lookin for.. even im crazy bout them.. but my priority has always been french
2006-10-06 12:23:21 · answer #6 · answered by gabriel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
parliament, mesa, geography (combination of geo (earth) and graphia (Description)
There are probably more words that don't have roots in English then words that do.
2006-10-06 09:08:02 · answer #7 · answered by sayhello 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
vis-a-vis
au contraire
cul-de-sac
ad nauseum
2006-10-06 06:11:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.allwords.com
2006-10-06 06:12:37 · answer #9 · answered by kidd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋