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This is a list English words of Polish origin, that is words used in the English language that were borrowed or derived, either directly or indirectly, from Polish. Several Polish words have entered English slang via Yiddish , brought by Ashkenazi Jews migrating from Poland to North America .
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.
Pages in category "Lists of English words of foreign origin" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In fact the word has relation to Prussia but is not Polish but was adopted from French. So it is really a French origin word. Second point is that spruce is not "a kind of wood" but fir. Berschneider. Please move this back. Moving this is a bad idea, especially as we already have a List of English words of Russian origin. This looks like more ...
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).
This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.
to add – dodać; to allow – zezwolić; to appear – pojawić się; to ask – zapytać; to be – być; to become – zostać; to begin – na początek
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 ...