English Borrowings

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. What language did English take the word sauna from? Hungarian Swedish Basque Finnish

2. What language did English get 'deck', 'boss' and 'yacht' from? German Dutch Gaelic Norse

3. What language is robot from? Czech Croat Russian Serbian

4. Marmalade is from : _________ ? Portuguese Maltese Greek Italian

5. Index originally meant forefinger and is from:_________? Latin Hebrew Greek Arabic

6. Skirt is not originally an English word. The English equivalent was shirt.But skirt was the Scottish variant and came from :______ ? Gaelic German Manx Old Norse

7. Chocolate has its origin in : ____________ Aztec Portuguese Spanish Inca

8. Bamboo came via Portuguese into English. The original word however was mambu, a word for a giant grass in : ___________? Burmese Vietnamese Chinese Malay

9. Tea is a word from ___________ Turkish Chinese Japanese Arabic

10. Beef, pork,veal and also 'boil' are of course kitchen-terms.From what language originally ? Answer: (Six letters. (Remember 1066! ))