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topic - 13 words from a foreign language that are common in English use
They all are, either Anglo Saxon, Norse, French, Latin or more recent languages. English is like the Borg. It assimilates.
1. Potato - From the Spanish patata, itself a hybrid of two other words
2. Bidet - French
3. Compound - From kampung, which is Indonesian for "village".?
4. Coup - French
5. Rucksack - From the German Rück, 'the back' and Sack, 'large bag'
6. antifa — meaning anti-fascist, from the German Antifaschistische
7.Schadenfreude
8. Parliament. When the Normans invaded French words became associated with power. Parliament from parler ment, to talk a lot.
9. poodle--German, not French