for example pizza is italian.
2007-03-14 18:39:44 · 5 answers · asked by Alex 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
kindergarten--German
sauerkraut--German
tsunami--Japanese
2007-03-14 18:49:26 · answer #1 · answered by rebekkah hot as the sun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are so many words that are from other languages that are adapted into the english language. All this is because english is a mixed of german, french, dutch, spanish, latin, greek and the norwegians, etc, etc. The best bet for you is to go look in the dictionary, it will tell you what the origin of the language is.
2007-03-15 01:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are thousands and thousands of words that have been adapted into English. Here is a really good site that has many many words and they are even categorized according to their language of origin. E.g. bandanna, cheetah and shampoo all come from the Hindi language. Awesome.
http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html
2007-03-15 01:45:52 · answer #3 · answered by lolo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pajama, bandana- from india, hindi
renaissance, escargot -french
wasabi, teriyaki-japanese
night- german for 'nacht'
there's a lot from french, german, and japanese
2007-03-15 01:46:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
garage, soi-disant.....
2007-03-15 01:43:21 · answer #5 · answered by T-spooon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋