English Word Origins
See also: Lists of English words of international origin- Non-loanwords
- proto-Indo-European — Proto-Germanic — Anglo-Saxon
- How words have been loaned from various languages to (many) other languages:
- Australian Aboriginal — African — Afrikaans — Algonquian — Arabic — Bengali — Chinese — Czech — Dutch — Etruscan — French — German — Greek — Hawaiian — Hebrew — Hindi — Hungarian — Irish — Italian — Japanese — Korean — Latin — Malay — Malayalam — Maori — Nahuatl — Norwegian — Old Norse — Persian — Polish — Portuguese — Punjabi — Quechua — Russian — Sanskrit — Scots — Scottish Gaelic — Spanish — Swedish — Tamil — Turkic — Ukrainian —Urdu — Yiddish
- Lists of foreign words with English derivatives
- Greek — Latin
See: Medical terminology
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