Kayak
It is a popular misconception that the Inuit have many words for snow. The words may differ according to the number of tribes, but generally there is no more words in Inuit that in English. The hoax started in 1911 and from then the number of words may have risen to about 400. However, counting generously, there may be about a dozen.
"Woolly"is an English word and "mammoth" comes from Latin words meaning "earth horn."
It comes from the Latin word Germania. Many English words come from Latin.
There are about 228,132 words total in the English language.
It comes from the Latin word for shadow: Umbra. Many words in the English language come from a Latin source.
The English translation of the word Bate-Papo is 'to chat'. Bate-Papo comes from the Portuguese language. Portuguese is the main language of the Country of Portugal.
Poodle comes from the German language and it is a type of dog!!
They gave a bunch of different words in their language. Such as skirt, oaf and egg
Nitwit comes from a combination of English and German. Cookie and Sleigh come from Dutch.
The Normans added words to the English language during their occupation.
the word kayak comes from Asia, North America and Gr eenlandAns 2The word 'kayak' comes from the word 'inuktitut' in the Aleut/ Inuit group of languages. It's original meaning was 'man's boat' .( I live in Canada and we often hear words in that language or encounter them in crosswords.)
The words joint d'embase are of the French language. These words translate into the English language as the words base gasket.