User:Stelio/Lexical List of Lovely Loanwords

The challenge: Come up with a list of 26 loanwords in English, one for every letter of the alphabet, A to Z.

• Each word must come from a different language.
  • On the Wiktionary entry for the English word, the source language is the one the word is immediately taken from. So cephalic counts as a loanword from Middle French, not the earlier Latin or even earlier Ancient Greek.
  • Different flavours of a language all count as the same language, so each of Old Latin, Classical Latin, Vulgar Latin count as Latin. But Italian is different to Latin.
• Each word must come from a different country.
  • You can only use Spanish and Arabic once each, even though they are spoken in many countries.
  • You can only use India and USA once each, even though they both host multiple languages.
  • You could use Italy for Italian or Latin, but not both. But you could use Italy for Italian and additionally use the Vatican for a loanword specifically from Ecclesiastical Latin.
• They must all be direct loanwords into modern English.
  • For example you can't use example because that came from Old French into Middle English. That's considered part of the modern English corpus already rather than a loanword.

• Easy mode: allow any English lemmata.
• Normal mode: exclude any proper nouns and word parts (prefixes, suffixes, etc.).
• Hard mode: also exclude terms for creatures and food/drink.

Set yourself whatever additional constraints you would like. For example, I deemed common words to be preferable to obscure words. And I didn't just trawl through Wiktionary's categories, as that wouldn't have made it an interesting challenge.

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