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Afro-Asiatic
Berber
Egyptian
- adobe, alabaster, barge, ebony, endive, gum, ibis, ivory, lily, oasis, pharaoh, phoenix
Semitic
East Semitic
West Semitic
- mat
- Arabic: admiral, alchemy, alcohol, alcove, alfalfa, algorithm, almanac, aloe, amber, apricot, arsenal, artichoke, assassin, aubergine, average, azure, bezoar, borax, bulgur, candy, check, checkmate, chemistry, cotton, chess, coffee, crimson, elixir, fez, garble, gauze, gazelle, gerbil, ghoul, giraffe, guitar, harem, henna, hookah, hummus, jasmine, julep, kebab, lemon, lilac, lime, magazine, masala, massage, mattress, mocha, monkey, monsoon, mosque, mummy, orange, racquet, ream, saffron, scarlet, sequin, shawarma, sherbet, soda, sofa, sorbet, spinach, sugar, syrup, talc, tambourine, tariff, tuna, zenith, zero
- Aramaic: abbot, abbey, chutzpah, messiah, sesame, sofa
- Hebrew: armageddon, behemoth, cherub, chutzpah, goy, kosher, schwa, shibboleth, toches, tush
- Phoenician: alphabet, cinnamon, scallion
Algic
- hickory, moose, pecan, powwow, toboggan, tomahawk
- Abenaki: skunk
- Cree: woodchuck
- Mi'kmaq: caribou
- Montagnais: husky
- Narragansett: mohawk, squash
- Ojibwe: woodchuck, chipmunk, totem
- Powhatan: opossum, persimmon, raccoon
Arawakan
- cay
- Arawak: guava, papaya
- Taíno: barbecue, cannibal, canoe, cassava, hammock, hurricane, iguana, maize, potato, savanna
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Borneo-Philippines
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Hawaiʻian: aa, aloha, big kahuna, hula, lei, luau, mahi-mahi, pahoehoe, poke, ukulele, wahine, wiki
- Māori: haka, kiwi, moa, tiki, wahine
- Marshallese: bikini
- Samoan: tattoo
- Tongan: taboo
Sunda-Sulawesi
- Javanese: junk
- Malay: amok, bamboo, caddy, cockatoo, durian, gong, launch, mandarin, mango, orangutan, paddy, pangolin, sarong
Aymaran
Basque
Cariban
Creoles and pidgins
- Angloromani: chav, minge, pal, zhoosh
- Chinese Pidgin English: chop-chop, chopstick, chow, look-see, no can do, pidgin
- Gullah: badmouth, goober, jukebox, kumbaya
- Haitian Creole: horizontal mambo, voodoo
- Jamaican Patois: punani, spliff
- Kriol: walkabout
- Louisiana Creole French: craps, jambalaya, voodoo
Dene–Yeniseian
Dravidian
- aloe, beryllium, orange, pariah, teak
- Kannada: bamboo
- Malayalam: atoll, calico, jackfruit
- Old Tamil: ginger
- Tamil: congee, curry, mango, mung bean, pagoda, patchouli
- Telugu: bandicoot, mongoose
Eskimo–Aleut
Etruscan
- atrium, belt, catamite, citrus, letter, people, person, persona, satellite, serve, vernacular
Indo-European
Armenian
Balto-Slavic
Baltic
Slavic
- borscht, broski, intelligentsia, pierogi, quark, vampire
- Czech: polka, robot
- Old Church Slavonic: quartz, slave, tsar
- Old East Slavic: kremlin, tsar
- Old Polish: schmuck
- Polish: horde, kielbasa, knish, rugelach, yarmulke
- Russian: babushka, beluga, commissar, cosmonaut, droog, fedora, gulag, horde, mammoth, parka, pogrom, shaman, smetana, sputnik, steppe, stroganoff, taiga, tsar, tundra, vodka, yurt
- Serbo-Croatian: paprika
- Ukrainian: knish
Celtic
Brythonic
- Welsh: corgi
- Celtiberian: mantel
- Gaulish: ambassador, awning, barnacle, battery, battle, beak, beret, bin, bourbon, brave, bray, brocade, bruise, budget, bulge, bushel, car, carpenter, carry, change, chock, cream, drab, druid, embassy, ferrule, flannel, frown, garter, glean, gouge, iron, javelin, league, limousine, luge, mantle, mine, mutton, socket, tan, tawny, town, vassal
- Old Welsh: clan
Goidelic
- mush
- Irish: banshee, bard, bog, brogue, galore, glen, keen, leprechaun, limerick, lough, macushla, puck, shamrock, slew, slob, smithereens, whiskey
- Middle Irish: leprechaun, trousers
- Old Irish: clan, slogan
- Scottish Gaelic: bard, bog, clan, galore, glen, loch, slogan, whisky
Germanic
- allegiance, array, baboon, badge, bale, banner, barren, blister, booty, border, brisket, broil, browse, bunion, butcher, button, cower, crabapple, crochet, cut, debut, drape, drapery, encroach, equip, falcon, felony, flank, frisk, frizz, garbage, gloss, gourmet, groom, gruel, guard, hamlet, helmet, hobby, huge, jump, leak, maim, mangle, moat, mogul, muffle, mushroom, pulley, pussy, retire, scabbard, sense, snout, stallion, strife, tack, tap, track, troll, tuft
East Germanic
North Germanic
- Danish: dash, hygge, smile, walrus
- Icelandic: geyser
- Norn: vole
- Norwegian: fjord, lemming, ski, slalom
- Old Danish: guess
- Old Norse: aloft, anger, askew, awkward, axel, bag, bait, bark, bash, bask, bawl, beaker, berate, berserk, billow, birth, blather, bleak, blight, bloom, blunder, bondage, boon, booth, both, bow, brunt, bulk, bungle, bur, bustle, bylaw, cake, calf, call, cart, cast, chubby, clip, club, cog, cottage, cozy, crawl, crazy, creek, cross, crouch, cuff, dandruff, daff, die, dirt, down, doze, drag, dregs, droll, droop, duvet, dyke, egg, -en, fast, fellow, flake, flat, flatter, flaw, fleck, fling, flit, flounder, to and fro, froth, gain, gait, gale, gap, gape, garage, gawk, gear, get, gift, gill, girth, give, glimmer, glint, glitter, gloat, gormless, gosling, grovel, guest, guesthouse, guild, gun, gust, haggis, hale and hearty, harness, hate, haunt, heft, hit, ho, hug, husband, ill, irk, jersey, keel, keg, kenning, kettle, kick, kid, kilt, kindle, knackered, knife, lass, lathe, law, leg, loft, likely, linger, link, litmus, loan, loft, log, loom, loon, loop, loose, lope, low, lug, luggage, lurk, main, meek, mire, mistake, mold, muggy, murky, nay, neat, oaf, oar, odd, pallet, peacock, plough, prod, race, raft, rag, raise, ransack, reef, reindeer, rift, rinse, root, rove, ruck, rump, run, rune, sag, saga, sale, same, scab, scale, scant, scar, scathing, scatter, scoff, scold, score, scrap, scrape, scream, seat, seem, seemly, sheer, sister, skill, skin, skirt, skull, sky, slaughter, sleight, sleuth, sling, slouch, slug, sly, snag, snipe, son of a bitch, spick-and-span, spry, squall, stab, stack, stag, stagger, stain, steak, steep, stern, stifle, swagger, coxswain, take, taken, tang, tattered, tern, tether, their, theirs, them, they, though, enthrall, thrift, thrive, thrust, Thursday, thwart, tight, till, trach, troll, troll, trust, tryst, tyke, ugly, ungainly, unseemly, viking, wad, waif, wail, wake, wand, want, wassail, waver, weak, weave, whisk, whiten, whoa, wicker, window, wing, wreck, wrong
- Swedish: angstrom, geopolitics, moped, orienteering, slag, smorgasbord, Stockholm syndrome, tungsten
West Germanic
- booty, buckle, buckwheat, clop, coif, cork, dredge, drug, freight, grab, jog, knapsack, lobby, marshal, monkey, mud, nip, nitwit, ogle, peer, pill, plump, pouch, shudder, sled, slip, slot, smelt, smuggle, snap, snip, snout, sod, splint, stripe, sump, tap, tackle, tram, tramp, tub, waft, wilt
- Afrikaans: aardvark, apartheid, commandeer, commando, meerkat, springbok, trek, wildebeest
- Alemannic German: muesli, putsch, spaetzle, stroll
- Bavarian: lederhosen
- Dutch: amok, bamboo, bazooka, beleaguer, bluff, boom, boss, brandy, brewery, bully, bumpkin, burlap, clomp, coffee, coleslaw, cookie, crate, cravat, cruise, cruller, decoy, dingus, dollar, domineer, dope, duffel, easel, etch, filibuster, foist, frolic, furlough, gas, gas, gecko, gherkin, gouda, holster, hump, hustle, iceberg, jeer, keelhaul, kill, kink, kit and caboodle, knickers, krill, landscape, maelstrom, mannequin, monsoon, muff, narwhal, noodle, pea coat, pinkie, pinky, pit, plug, poppycock, rant, unravel, roster, schooner, skate, sketch, slaw, sleigh, slim, snap, snoop, snuff, snuffle, soy, splice, spook, stoked, stoop, swab, tea, trawl, trigger, veldt, waffle, wagon, wildebeest, yacht
- Frankish: abandon, afraid, ah, ambush, arrange, array, attach, attack, bacon, balloon, bargain, bastard, beignet, blank, blemish, blond, blue, bonnet, boot, brandish, brawny, broil, browse, bucket, bun, buoy, burgeon, burglar, butt, camouflage, champion, cramp, crush, cry, cuckold, dance, dart, debauchery, debris, debut, delay, drape, dub, emboss, enamel, etiquette, falcon, fee, felon, feudal, fiasco, fief, filter, flan, flank, flask, floss, foolhardy, forage, foray, forest, frock, fur, furnish, gala, gallant, gallop, garage, garçon, garden, garland, garment, garnish, garrison, gauge, gay, grape, grapple, grate, grimace, guarantee, guard, guerrilla, guide, guileless, guise, hamper, hangar, hardy, haricot vert, harrowing, haste, hatch, hatchet, haughty, haul, haunches, heinous, herald, hideous, hoe, install, jay, jig, juggle, label, lanyard, lattice, lecherous, lodge, loot, lure, mail, marauder, march, marquis, mason, mince, minion, mitten, mooch, mousse, muffle, mushroom, park, patrol, paw, perform, pinch, pledge, pocket, poke, pot, quail, raffle, ramp, rampant, random, range, rank, rebuke refurbish, regret, reward, roast, rob, robbery, robe, scale, scion, scroll, seize, sense, skew, skim, slate, slice, soil, spell, spelt, spy, staccato, stalemate, standard, strife, strive, stuff, sturgeon, tampon, tap, target, tarnish, teat, ticket, touch, toupee, towel, trebuchet, trip, troop, troupe, trot, trumpet, vagrant, veneer, wage, wait, war, warden, warrant, warrior, waste, wince
- German: in progress
- Lombardic: balcony, balloon, bank, banquet, -esque, gnocchi, rocket, salon, saloon, skiff, stucco
- Lorraine Franconian: quiche
- Low German: buckle, cranberry, fob, poodle, snuffle, sparerib, stump, wobble, wrangle
- Middle Dutch: anchor, berm, bicker, block, boulevard, brackish, bulwark, buoy, bush, caboose, cant, clamp, clipper, clock, cricket, crimp, croon, dapper, deck, dock, drill, droll, drum, dune, elope, fade, flamenco, frumpy, golf, gruff, grumble, gulp, heckle, hodgepodge, hops, -kin, kit, kit and caboodle, leak, loiter, luck, margrave, measles, meringue, muddle, pack, pamper, peg, pickle, placard, plaque, poll, prank, quack, rabbit, rack, rasp, rattle, -scape, school, scoop, scour, scrabble, scream, scrub, skipper, slim, slobber, slot, slurp, snack, snuff, speckle, splinter, split, spool, spout, spray, staple, stay, stove, toy, trace, treachery, trip, tub, utter, Waterloo, whip, wiggle, yammer
- Middle High German: angst, glint, haggard, liege, pistol, swindle, widdershins
- Middle Low German: bluster, bulwark, cower, dote, freight, glum, holster, knob, lazy, mate, mulberry, nub, pad, paltry, pulley, rump, sable, schlep, slip, split, trade, wake, whip, withershins
- Old Dutch: broker, crap, embroider, heron, quail, rifle, scavenger, screen, slender, spool
- Old English: sibling
- Old High German: engross, gross, halt, hut, lease, mush, rob
- Old Saxon: beaker, hump, mock, peg, vogue
- Pennsylvania German: dunk, hex
- Saterland Frisian: gherkin
- Scots: blatant, bother, caddie, caddy, cozy, dandy, dredge, feckless, flat, fogey, glamour, glint, golf, implement, jiggery-pokery, kerfuffle, long drink of water, lug, naw, pet, plaid, pony, queer, raid, scuff, snooty, stab, stalwart, tot, tweed, waffle, -y, yank
- West Flemish: hunk
- Yiddish: bagel, borscht, chutzpah, glitch, goy, kaput, klutz, knish, kosher, latke, lox, mensch, nosh, oy, pastrami, phooey, pogrom, rugelach, schlep, schlong, schlub, schmear, schmoe, schmuck, shtick, spitz, toches, tush, yarmulke
Hellenic
- Ancient Greek: in progress
- Ancient Macedonian: varnish
- Byzantine Greek: antelope, apricot, endive, gondola, iconoclasm, metaphysics, monogram, mustache, opal, patriarch, patriarchy, phagocytosis, pita, polysyndeton, pope, protocol, rice, sandalwood, slave, talisman, tartar, tsar, varnish
- Greek: feta, galactic, gyro, phyllo
- Koine Greek: encyclopedia, rabbi, rhubarb, theology
- Mycenaean Greek: meta-
Illyrian
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
- paprika, pepper
- Dhivehi: atoll
- Gujarati: bungalow
- Hindi: avatar, bandana, bangle, bindi, burka, cashmere, chai, cheetah, chokey, chutney, cot, cowrie, cowry, cummerbund, cushy, dungarees, guru, juggernaut, jungle, khaki, kush, lacquer, loot, naan, pajamas, paneer, punch, pundit, raj, rupee, samosa, sari, seersucker, shampoo, tandoori, thug, veranda, yogi
- Marathi: mongoose, thug
- Oriya: juggernaut
- Pali: shaman
- Prakrit: beryllium
- Punjabi: guru
- Romani: minge, pal, posh, zhoosh
- Sanskrit: aloe, aubergine, avatar, brahmin, candy, chakra, crimson, dharma, gingerbread, jackal, karma, lilac, mandala, mandarin, mantra, mung bean, musky, namaste, nirvana, om, opal, orange, pagoda, sandalwood, sandhi, sugar, sutra, swastika, tantric, yoga, yoni, zen
- Sinhalese: anaconda
- Urdu: avatar, burka, cashmere, chai, cummerbund, cushy, guru, hookah, juggernaut, jungle, kebab, khaki, loot, naan, pajamas, paneer, punch, raj, tandoori
Iranian
- absinthe, paradise, pistachio, rice, tiger
- Median: satrap
- Middle Iranian: arsenic
- Middle Persian: amber, bezoar, borax, gauze, henna, musky, sandalwood
- Old Iranian: magic
- Old Persian: leopard, rose
- Persian: alfalfa, algorithm, atoll, aubergine, azure, bazaar, bulgur, burka, calabash, candy, caravan, caviar, chai, check, checkmate, chess, crimson, cummerbund, cushy, divan, falafel, gauze, ghoul, jackal, jasmine, julep, kebab, khaki, kiosk, lacquer, lemon, lilac, lime, masala, mogul, mummy, naan, orange, pajamas, paneer, pilaf, rook, saffron, samosa, scarlet, seersucker, shah, shawl, sherbet, sitar, sorbet, spinach, -stan, sugar, tabby, taffeta, talc, tandoori, tariff, tulip, turban
- Scythian: butter, cottage, hood, path
Italic
Latin
- in progress
- Ecclesiastical Latin: amen, archbishop, benediction, cowl, deacon, excommunicate, martyr, superintendent
- Late Latin: in progress
- Medieval Latin: in progress
- New Latin: abdominal, -aceous, acne, ad hoc, adrenaline, alliteration, aluminum, anachronism, anarchy, anthropology, apnea, archaism, asphyxia, aurora borealis, autopsy, azalea, bacteria, boa constrictor, brontosaurus, calcium, camera, centripetal, cervical, chlamydia, chronology, cine-, criterion, -cyte, defenestration, dermis, differentiate, diglossia, dys-, dyslexia, electric, elongate, encyclopedia, ephemeral, epiglottis, euphoria, fauna, flexor, focal, fricative, glottis, gonorrhea, helium, herbivorous, hippopotamus, hyperthermia, hypochondria, hypothermia, hysteria, id, incisor, instantaneous, -itis, kine-, lexicon, lithium, logarithm, magnesium, mantis, mastodon, melanin, microscope, mimosa, mnemonic, natural logarithm, neurology, neuron, oncology, oral, ornithology, ovary, pamphlet, paraplegic, penicillin, percent, petunia, pharynx, phase, philtrum, -phobia, -phore, planetarium, -plasia, polyhedron, postscript, propaganda, protozoan, pupa, quotum, rectum, redaction, reptilian, rhotacism, sagittal, sartorial, schizophrenia, sensory, sorghum, spasmodic, spruce, stalactite, stalagmite, subjugation, suicide, synaptic, synoptic, syphilis, tensor, tentacle, theism, therapy, triceratops, trigonometry, trilogy, tuberculosis, typhus, typographical, tyrannosaurus, utopia, ventricular, vibrator
- Vulgar Latin: allocate, alms, disciplinary, imp, kitchen, pear, pipe, pope, radish, shambles, shingle
Oscan
Romance
- Catalan: apricot, aubergine, paella
- Corsican: anchovy
- Franco-Provençal: chalet, glacier, luge
- French: in progress
- Genoese: anchovy, careen
- Italian: in progress
- Ligurian: artichoke, celery, mascarpone
- Middle French: in progress
- Mozarabic: cork
- Neapolitan: wop
- Norman: casket, funk, scaffold
- Anglo-Norman: in progress
- Occitan: accolade, aioli, brocade, cape, charade, cinch, mascot, nougat, ratatouille
- Old Catalan: surge
- Old French: in progress
- Old Italian: alarm, ambassador, average, bank, calm, carol, cash, cavalier, charlatan, colonel, cotton, desk, embassy, faggot, luster, manage, model, orange, porcelain, reprisal, rice, sentinel, skiff, sugar, tarantula
- Old Norman: able, await, barnacle, blanket, bulge, cable, camel, cant, carnage, carriage, case, caterpillar, cauldron, caulk, chisel, cloak, clock, coffin, compost, gallon, garter, goblin, hurt, market, paunch, pier, pouch, rinse, scarce, scarcity, scarf, skate, skew, tack, task, urchin, wait, war, wardrobe, wily
- Old Occitan: ambassador, amble, ballad, band, bias, bracket, camisole, card, career, cash, cavalier, colander, embassy, fig, gaffe, gay, guide, jambalaya, lute, noose, orange, patio, rugged, somersault, sonnet, spaniel, spigot, spinach, terrace, truffle, velvet, viol, viola, violin
- Old Spanish: alcohol, artichoke, escapade, monkey
- Portuguese: açai, albacore, albatross, albino, alcove, bamboo, banana, baroque, bossa nova, brocade, buffalo, cashew, cassava, caste, cobra, coconut, commando, creole, criollo, dodo, emu, fetish, flamingo, futsal, grouper, indigo, infanta, infante, jackfruit, jaguar, junk, lacquer, launch, macaque, macaw, mandarin, mango, mangrove, maracas, marmalade, molasses, mongoose, monsoon, muscovado, negro, n****r, pagoda, petunia, pimento, piranha, port wine, samba, savvy, tank, tapioca, tempura, veranda, yam, zebra
- Romanian: pastrami
- Spanish: in progress
- Venetian: ciao, gazette, gondola
- Walloon: mop, rabbit
Sabine
Phrygian
Tocharian
Japonic
- Japanese: in progress
- Okinawan: karate
Khoe
Koreanic
Mongolic
Muskogean
Niger–Congo
Atlantic-Congo
Senegambian
Volta–Congo
Volta–Niger
Mande
Pama–Nyungan
Purepecha
Quechuan
Salishan
Sino-Tibetan
Sinitic
- chai, ginkgo, kowtow, shaman, typhoon, won, yen
- Cantonese: bok choy, chop suey, chop-chop, dim sum, hoisin sauce, kumquat, lo mein, lychee, mahjong, shar-pei, wok, wonton
- Mandarin: baozi, boba, chi, Chow Chow, erhua, feng shui, ginseng, goji, gung ho, honcho, jiaozi, kung fu, manhua, momo, moo shu, oolong, ramen, renminbi, shaojiu, Shih Tzu, tai chi, wushu, xiaolongbao, yin-yang, yuan, zongzi
- Middle Chinese: bonsai, futon, geisha, haiku, hanja, hentai, jujitsu, kabuki, kanji, kendo, manga, natto, noh, onsen, rickshaw, senpai, sensei, seppuku, shinkansen, shochu, shogun, shuriken, soju, soy, tofu, udon, zen
- Min Nan: ketchup, tea
- Taishanese: chow mein
Tibeto-Burman
Siouan
Sumerian
Tai–Kadai
Tungusic
Tupian
Turkic
- horde, khan, taiga, turk
- Ottoman Turkish: bazaar, caviar, coffee, divan, harem, lemon, sorbet, tariff, yogurt
- Turkish: baklava, balaclava, bulgur, dolman, doner kebab, doodle, fez, hummus, jackal, kebab, kiosk, lavash, pastrami, pilaf, shawarma, sherbet, shish kebab, sultan, tulip, turban, yarmulke
Uralic
Uto-Aztecan
- saguaro
- Classical Nahuatl: avocado, axolotl, cacao, chili, chipotle, cocoa, guacamole, peyote, quetzal, tomatillo, tomato
- Nahuatl: chocolate, coyote, jicama, marijuana, mesquite, ocelot, shack, tamale, tequila
- O'odham: jojoba
Notes
- Note 1: Not listed are:
- Proper nouns
- Demonyms, languages, etc.
- Non-lemma forms
- Terms with uncertain etymologies
- I've been really inconsistent with this. Will edit later.
- Calques and translations. For example, Christ would be listed under Latin and Ancient Greek, but not Hebrew, from which the Ancient Greek term is calqued.
- Rarely-used terms (e.g. bein, ettle, orgul)
- Terms descended from Middle English < Old English < Proto-Germanic < PIE
- For now, terms derived solely from languages whose categories have 1000+ entries. These are marked with "in progress".
- Note 2: Terms will only be listed in ancestor languages if they did not enter English from a native descendant of that ancestor language. For example, fjord is listed under Norwegian, but not Old Norse, because it entered English through Norwegian.
- Note 3: Still working on the formatting; bear with me.
- Note 4: Terms derived from a proto-language are be listed under the proto-language's appropriate family.
- Note 5: Disclaimer 1: There is unavoidable human error in this list. I'm trying to be accurate as possible but there's bound to be mistakes.
- Note 6: Disclaimer 2: The terms in this appendix are chosen by both quantitative and qualitative measures, and inclusion is contingent on my judgement. This appendix is inherently biased.