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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.
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However, he found considerable discrepancy between the most common and least common words. The top thousand words were 83% of English origin, while the least common were only 25% of English origin. [6] However, due to the variability of vocabulary of individuals, dialects, and time periods, exact percentages cannot be taken at face value. [3]
As a matter of fact that word is indeed of Russian origin, although it might've came to English from French. Halibu tt 07:28, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC) Perhaps it is, but I couldn't find any evidence of that in the Oxford English Dictionary, the Oxford American Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, or the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
See as example Category:English words: Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. ... List of English words of Russian origin; 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).
English words of Ukrainian origin are words in the English language that have been borrowed or derived from the Ukrainian language. Some of them may have entered English via Russian, Polish, or Yiddish, among others. They may have originated in another languages, but are used to describe notions related to Ukraine.