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1. almanac: (Spanish-)Arabic; Late Greek (al-manac
"the-calendar") [14th c. annual table: astronomical data/computations,
poss. from late Gk. (Eusebius almenikhiaka); first attested
in midLat > It. almanaco > Fr. almanach]
2. bizarre: Basque; French; Italian [Basque bizar
"beard" > Fr/It bizarro "moustached man,
man of spirit, handsome, brave" > Eng "wearing a moustache/beard")
3. boomerang: Australian native dialect (New South
Wales) [bumarin/wo-mur-rang "type(s) of clubs"]
4. chair: Greek; Latin [Gk. kathedra/Lat.
cathedra "sit-down, seat" >OF chaiere
"bishop's throne"]
5. cherub: Hebrew, "winged heavenly being"
> Lat/Fr [poss. from Akkadian karubu "propitious,
gracious"]
6. chocolate: Aztec (language = Nahuatl) [confusion
of chocolatl "food from cacao seeds and cacaua-atl
"drink, cacao-water"]
7. crag: Celtic (through Mid. Eng./Mid. Dutch), "rock"
8. dollar: Low German/Dutch [joachims/taler,
"Joachim's valley" = source of silver for coins, in Bohemia;
> clipped to taler, 16th c.; later t > d, Low Germ.
daler]
9. galore: Irish (Gaelic), "enough, sufficent";
popularized by W. Scott
10. geyser: (Old) Icelandic; Old Norse ["gush,"
rel. to "gush"]
11. gingham: Malay (Indonesian language of Malay
peninsula) ["striped linen/cotton cloth"; ginggang
"striped"]
12. hominy: Algonkian/Algonquian (= N Am. Indian
lang.) ["parched corn" < appuminneonash = appwoon
"he bakes" + minneash "grain"]
13. horde: Turkic/Turkish; Mongolian [ordi/ordu
"camp" > It. orda]
14. hurricane: Arawak/Arawakan (lang. of Brazil and
West Indies); Taino (= branch of Arawak) [haurachana >
Sp. huracan > Eng. hurricane, prob. influenced
by "hurry" in the sense of "disturb"]
15. julep: Persian [gul-ab "rose-water,
sweet liquor"]
16. khaki: Persian [khak "dust"
> khaki "dusty, dust-colored (cloth)," esp.
used by Brit. troops in the Indian Mutiny]
17. magazine: Arabic [makhazan "storehouse,
granary" > Eng. periodical, 1731, "The Gentleman's Magazine"]
18. mammouth: Russian; Tatar [mammot/mamont,
-on- misread for -ou-; ?< mama "earth,"
because the animal supposedly burrowed]
19. paradise: Iranian; Persian [paradeisos
"garden": Xenophon, "parks (of Persian kings)";
< Old Persian, pairidaeza "enclosure"]
20. robot: Czech [robota "compulsory
service"; robotnik "serf"; cf. Germ. arbeit]
21. sapphire: Sanskrit [saniprija "dear
to the planet Saturn") > Hebrew sappir > Gk. sappheiros]
22. sherbet: Arabic (shariba "drink",
cf. syrup > 17th c. "oriental drink" > 19th c. "powder
for making effervescing drink"]
23. swastika: Sanskrit [svasti "fortune"
< su- + -asti, "well-being"]
24. tungsten: Swedish [tung "heavy"
+ sten "stone"]
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