Here are the answers to the 20 questions in our Matching Quiz on Loanwords.
- (f) Tongan
- (d) Persian
- (i) Arabic
- (a) Japanese
- (t) Swedish
- (m) Portuguese
- (j) Yiddish
- (s) Turkish
- (g) Hungarian
- (l) Italian
- (r) Bantu
- (b) Scottish
- (k) German
- (p) Tagalog
- (c) Dutch
- (n) Spanish
- (q) Inuit [Canadian Eskimo]
- (h) Micmac [the Algonquian language Lnuísimk]
- (o) Norwegian
- (e) Malay
To learn more about the ways in which words enter our language, see Introduction to Etymology: Word Histories.
