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	Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		List of English words of Etruscan origin This is a list of Latin.
		List of English words of Scots Gaelic origin This is a list of Scots Gaelic: ; bard : From Bàrd, poet or reciter.
		List of English words of Tamil origin This is a list of Tamil origin: Catamaran- kattumaram Cheroot- suruttu Curry - kar...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/words.html (1526 words)

	English language : QuicklyFind Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (Vikings), that began populating the British Isles around 500 AD.
		English belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
		English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French), Cameroon (with French and African languages), Dominica, St.
	www.quicklyfind.com /info/English_language.htm (2819 words)

	Sources of English Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Below is a list of different languages and some English words that derive from roots in those languages.
		While in some cases a conclusion may be valid (e.g., Finnish has one word listed and the impact Finnish has had on English is indeed minimal), in others it may not be (e.g., Arabic has about as many words listed as Latin, but the impact of Latin on English is incomparably larger).
		Words marked with a question mark (?) are of uncertain origin, but probably come from that language.
	www.wordorigins.org /loanword.htm (146 words)

	free expressions meanings, words, phrases origins and derivations
		While the origin of the expression is not racial or 'non-politically-correct', the current usage, by association with the perceived meaning of 'spade', most certainly is potentially racially sensitive and potentially non-PC, just as other similarly non-politically correct expressions have come to be so, eg 'nitty-gritty', irrespective of their actual origins.
		The use of the word English to mean spin may also have referred to the fact that the leather tip of a billiard cue which enables better control of the ball was supposedly an English invention.
		During the 1900's the word was shortened and commonly the hyphen erroneously added, resulting from common confusion and misinterpretation of the 'ex' prefix, which was taken to mean 'was', as in ex-wife, ex-president, etc., instead of 'ex' meaning 'out', as in expatriate, expel, exhaust, etc. Strictly speaking therefore, the correct form is expat, not ex-pat.
	www.businessballs.com /clichesorigins.htm (14066 words)

	Etymologically Speaking... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Originally, the crushed seeds were mixed with vinegar--much as we enjoy it today--but the vinegar was eventually replaced for a time in the Middle Ages with grape "must" (a byproduct of the winemaking process).
		Coming to English via the French word meaning the same, this word is thought to derive ultimately from the Latin word lamella, a "thin plate," referring to the long, flat shape of the omlette, and to represent a gradual corruption of allumelle first to allumelette, then to alomelette (Le cuisiner francois of 1651 has aumelette).
		The English word "saffron" comes from the Spanish word azafran, as it is in Spain where most of the world's highest quality crocus flowers (the plant whose stamens are the source of all saffron) are found.
	www.westegg.com /etymology (10416 words)

	KryssTal : The Origin of Words and Names
		Words are changing meaning now: consider how the words bad and gay have changed in recent years.
		English and British surnames (family names) have four main sources: the person's occupation, the place of origin, a nickname and relations.
		A collection of words in the English language that were originally borrowed from other languages.
	www.krysstal.com /wordname.html (1038 words)

	KryssTal : Borrowed Words in English
		This is a collection of tables listing words from the many languages that have contributed words to English.
		For some languages the word list is complete; for others (French, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Spanish) only a selection of borrowed words is given as there are so many.
		Alternatively you can perform a search on the complete list of borrowed words by language, type of word, continent or language family.
	www.krysstal.com /borrow.html (521 words)

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		Gaelic loandwords in English A motley collection of messages from Email lists - badly in need of tidying up =========================================================================== > The word "bother" was introduced into the English language by > eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish writers such as Sheridan.
		It seems likely that a certain English contempt resides in the adoption of the word hubbub from a Celtic source, which is probably related to ub ub ubub, a Scots Gaelic interjection expressing contempt, or to abu, an ancient Irish war cry.
		I can't guarantee that all of these words are of Gaelic origin but have a look anyway.
	www.smo.uhi.ac.uk /gaidhlig/cananan/beurla/faclan.txt (3777 words)

	English Dictionary List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom -includes definition (English) (98KB, indexed 22Jun2002)[3535 words, index = pee]
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	affr01.onelook.com /browse_en.shtml (9177 words)

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