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Many languages, including English, contain words (Russianisms) most likely borrowed from the Russian language. Not all of the words are of purely Russian or origin. Some of them co-exist in other Slavic languages, and it can be difficult to determine whether they entered English from Russian or, say, Bulgarian. Some other words are borrowed or ...
The following are lists of words in the English language that are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages. For Old English -derived words, see List of English words of Old English origin .
A lot of the words mentioned in these discussion are from Russian. Russian has more ways to pronounce words than English or almost any other languages, except Slavic languages because they are the same in many ways including this one. You can call a car Mashina, Mashinka, Mashinochka. In English you can only call a car a car.
English words of African origin; List of English words of Afrikaans origin; List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas; List of English words of Old English origin; List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin
There are no native Russian words that begin with ы (except for the specific verb ыкать: "to say the ы -sound"), but there are many proper and common nouns of non-Russian origin (including some geographical names in Russia) that begin with it: Kim Jong-un (Ким Чен Ын) and Eulji Mundeok (Ыльчи Мундок), a Korean military ...
Hello - Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)/ Привет (priviet) How are you? - как дела? (Kak dela) What's your name? - Как вас зовут?
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper. [1]