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Borrowings from Polish tend to be mostly words referring to staples of Polish cuisine, names of Polish folk dances or specialist, e.g. horse-related, terminology. Among the words of Polish origin there are several words that derive from Polish geographic names and ethnonyms, including the name Polska, "Poland", itself.
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Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.
It's a word of *Czech* origin In 1831, French were dancing a Scottish style dance, and the Czech patriots were rooting for the Poles who were just revolting against the Russians, or something like that, so they named the new artificial dance first shown in Prague "polka", meaning a Polish woman. A very political and artificial way to create a ...
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
Big English-Polish Dictionary with example sentences from translation memories; Polish Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix; Learn Polish Archived 2021-02-25 at the Wayback Machine—List of Online Polish Courses; Polish English wordlist, 600 terms Archived 2013-10-08 at the Wayback Machine; A taste of ...
Derivative words in English include policy, polity, police, and politics. In Greek, words deriving from polis include politēs and politismos, whose exact equivalents in Latin, Romance, and other European languages, respectively civis ("citizen"), civilisatio ("civilisation"), etc., are similarly derived. A number of other common nouns end in ...
Additionally, several words of Turkic origin penetrated English through Central or Eastern European languages like Russian and Polish. Albanian, German, Latin, Spanish, Italian, French, Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian were also intermediary languages for the Turkic words to penetrate English, as well as containing numerous Turkic loanwords ...