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Vocabulary by Language #1

For each selected English word, name the language it came from.
Guess the most recent language
For example: If the word went from Latin to French to English, the answer is French
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
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Last updated: June 10, 2019
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First submittedJanuary 31, 2013
Times taken35,219
Average score52.4%
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Word
Language
Bourgeois
French
Bravo
Italian
Ethos
Greek
Gesundheit
German
Futon
Japanese
Harem
Turkish
Apartheid
Afrikaans
Word
Language
Brogue
Irish
Census
Latin
Dollar
Dutch
Chutney
Hindi
Chutzpah
Yiddish
Corgi
Welsh
Açai
Portuguese
Word
Language
Goulash
Hungarian
Junta
Spanish
Karma
Sanskrit
Orangutan 
Malay
Lychee
Chinese
Hashish
Arabic
Polka
Czech
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Level 62
Mar 29, 2013
Could you please accept Indonesian for Orangutan? It also comes from that language according to Wikipedia. Thanks!
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Level 41
May 18, 2014
I agree that Indonesian should be accepted. From a linguistic point of view, Indonesian and Malay are one entity, called differently only for political/prestigious reasons by the two states where it is an official language.
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Level 75
Dec 6, 2014
Agreed - I was just going to post to ask the same thing!
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Level ∞
Aug 4, 2015
Yes, that will work now.
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Level 82
Apr 28, 2016
"Bahasa" would cover Malay and Indonesian.
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Level 65
May 25, 2019
Bahasa just means language..
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Level 74
Mar 29, 2013
Got them all with 5 seconds left. Fun quiz.
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Level 33
Mar 29, 2013
Lovin' this quiz! Another, similar one sometime would be great!
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Level 89
Mar 29, 2013
Yes, please, another like this one! Etymology rules!
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Level 25
Mar 29, 2013
irish is not a language the answer would be gaelic
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Level 42
May 16, 2015
I put Erse, which a name for Irish gaelic; please accept.
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Level 59
Mar 23, 2017
Irish is a language, and it is the English name for the Celtic language spoken in Ireland. A quick google will tell you that - check out Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica or any dictionary website (or any paper dictionary).
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Level 67
Jul 29, 2019
No, the language is called Irish.
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Level 75
Nov 12, 2020
Gaeilge (or Gaelic) should be accepted. Using 'Irish' as a description originally just came from differentiating between Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic and/or carrying on from saying "English" for that particular language. It's not incorrect, just ironic especially when people sometimes think that 'Irish' refers to the way English is spoken in Ireland and don't know that it's a separate language.
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Level 82
Mar 29, 2013
Fun quiz and not all that hard. Though getting 100% in the time allotted is a bit difficult.
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Level 82
Feb 20, 2019
Did it easily this time. Don't know if the time limit was increased or my vocabulary has just gotten better.
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Level 27
Mar 30, 2013
Nice for you, was hard for me.
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Level 23
Mar 31, 2013
Interesting quiz.
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Level 45
Oct 30, 2013
I tried arabic for harem and turkish for hashish...fml
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Level 59
Jan 6, 2014
Duh! tried Hindi for Karma
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Level 66
Apr 12, 2014
i agree that harem is arabic in origin.

also, i think dollar came from German - http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dollar

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Level ∞
Aug 4, 2015
German -> Dutch -> English. The quiz instructions say to name the most recent language.
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Level 50
Oct 21, 2015
Disagree. I looked at three or four sources, and couldn't find any reference to the Dutch language (even the Flemish link was tenuous) in the etymology of the word.

Especially since the US adoption of the word 'dollar' for their currency occurred because of its use by the Spanish to refer to certain coins.

The word's evolution was joachimsthaler -> thaler -> taler/dollar. German is a correct answer, even with your rules.

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Level 37
Mar 6, 2018
Same goes for Apartheid: Dutch - Afrikaans - English
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Level 70
Nov 16, 2015
Dollar is one of those words where the direct origin is disputed.
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Level 51
Nov 16, 2015
chutzpah is hebrew. and isn't apartheid dutch?
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Level 82
Nov 16, 2015
Aramaic > Hebrew > Yiddish > American English

Dutch > Afrikaans > American English

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Level 37
Oct 3, 2016
I always thought that Chutzpah was Yiddish; Maybe I'm wrong.

But apartheid is definitely a DUTCH word. It may be identified

with South Africa because it was the system of government

there for a long time and Afrikaans is a dialect of Dutch, but the

word itself is a Dutch word.

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Level 82
Feb 20, 2019
But how did the word make its way into English?
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Level 66
Nov 16, 2015
Hungarian = Magyar?
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Level 82
Apr 28, 2016
Seconded. I tried that first and was briefly baffled before I thought to try Hungarian.
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Level 82
Nov 9, 2019
Did you also try Deutsch and español first and were baffled when it didn't work?
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Level 68
Nov 16, 2015
"Karma" is derived from the Pali language. I recognize "Sanskrit" as the correct answer here but think it would make for a more challenging quiz had you substituted for Pali and the Pali equivalent of Karma.
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Level 67
Nov 16, 2015
Please accept Flemish for dollar.
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Level 55
Feb 20, 2019
Flemish is a Dutch dialect.
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Level 38
Sep 27, 2019
Wow, don't say that to Flemish nationalists !
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Level 39
Nov 16, 2015
I missed Greek and Latin... That was a dork move...
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Level 56
Nov 19, 2015
If you are going to make the answers the most recent language by which these words came to English usage, then Polka should be either French or German, not Czech. Also, by this standard, dollar would be either German or Flemish, not Dutch.
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Level ∞
Nov 20, 2015
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dollar#Etymology
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Level 30
Aug 10, 2016
Polka for Czech? Srsly? This is Polish word!
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Level 82
Feb 20, 2019
Do you mean Polska? I actually thought Polka was Polish, too, and brought this up to my Polish friends who corrected me. Polka is Bohemian or Czech, not Polish.
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Level 51
Dec 5, 2016
Challenging quiz, thanks
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Level 70
Aug 30, 2017
I agree that it would be great to add "Bahasa" for Orangutan
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Level 76
Jun 29, 2019
"Bahasa" means language. So... when some word comes from English, would you agree that writing just "language" would be enough?
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Level 54
Jan 29, 2019
"Goulash" is not a Hungarian word. In Hungarian we use "gulyás". For some reason all foreigners call it goulash and the most popular English name for it became goulash.
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Level 55
Feb 20, 2019
I have a very hard time figuring out which word is close to dollar and I'm Dutch...
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Level 37
May 16, 2019
^ Same here. Eschewing extensive research, my first thought upon seeing the word would be that it is a corruption of the word "dolor" (pain in Spanish) but I don't know how that would translate into dollar as a monetary unit.
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Level 65
May 25, 2019
Seriously? It is obviously daalder (but perhaps less obvious for people that were born after the introduction of the euro, i guess they are old enough to take quizzes now) and even if it is not obvious to some, i am pretty sure it gets taught in school.

If you know any names for coins it would be a no brainer, i think after gulden it is the next most known name. And i really dont see if you have done extensive research how you could miss it.

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Level 88
Jul 29, 2019
Knowing the full name of the Corgi dog breed was helpful on that one! ;)
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Level 75
Jul 30, 2019
Same here. I immediately thought of Welsh corgi, along with Irish brogue, Hungarian gulyas, Indian chutney which could only be Hindi, and lychees found on Chinese buffets. I wasn't so bright when it came to Turkish harem - wondered why Arabic didn't work, and why Polish didn't work for polka. Call those a learning experience.
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Level 49
Jul 30, 2019
Dollar actually comes from German, the pennsylvania "dutch" are germans, not dutch, the word "dutch" comes from "deutsch".

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=dollar+etymology

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Level 45
Jul 31, 2019
The language is Mandarin, not Chinese.

Great quiz, btw!

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Level 65
Aug 9, 2019
Missed ethos futon brogue and karma :(
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Level 67
Oct 22, 2019
Got sanskrit 😁
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Level 62
Dec 8, 2019
I thought Harem was Japanese.. :')
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Level 43
Feb 19, 2021
Goulash is actually spelled ''Gulyás'' in hungarian. I mean it's not a quiz for native speakers but it's called ''vocabulary'' and ''goulash'' is not hungarian vocabulary, while ''Gulyás'' is.. don't mean to be rude, I enjoyed the quiz otherwise :)
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Level 71
Jul 18, 2023
Each of the words is a word in the English language--it's not asking what is the origin word in the foreign language.
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Level 75
Oct 29, 2022
shouldn't the name be Language by Vocabulary? in most others i could find of the same format, the second thing after the 'by' is what you're given in order to name the thing before the 'by'. e.g. celebrities by picture, capitals by map etc