All words are either original portuguese, or imported to the english language from other countries (usually colonies) through portuguese. Many more exist of course. Some were excluded from this list because they are identical in portuguese and spanish, and are therefor difficult to attribute to just one of the languages (Breeze, Baroque, Caramel, Caste, Junk, Lasso, Mosquito, Patio, Petunia, Potato, Savvy, Vigilante, etc).
The title of this quiz is "english words of portuguese origin". The meaning of the loan word "fetish" is not the same as the original word "feitiço". But that is something that happens when words are borrowed from different languages. "Commando" for instance (refering to a soldier), just meant "to command" in portuguese, long before there were any actual Commandos in Portugal. Same with "tempura", which in the original portuguese "tempero" just meant condiment.
most of the words you mentioned are borrowed from other languages. for example banana is from arabic "banan" meaning fingers. pagoda is from persian word "botkade" meanin the place were idols are worshipped. monsoon is burrowed from indian and must not be confused. china and korea are both borrowed from persian that is derived from ancient persian traders.
Ok, I like etymology and I like accuracy (but yes I often dont capitalize names..) so I looked them all up:
Bamboo is from dutch, same with monsoon. Zebra from italian, volta I think aswell. Marmalade, serval, caravel, macaque, cashew and cachalot are from french (portuguese->french->english) Corral from spanish. Tempura from japanese. Veranda from hindi.
Sometimes etymologists do not know which language it came from first, so they say from language x or y. If one of them was portuguese I didnt include those words in the correction.
these are the languages the english language got/borrowed these words from. If you mean the actual Origin of the word, well than you get a completely different list.. I suspect most would ultimately come from latin, greek or arabic (should ve looked when I was looking up the words..)
I think you should stick to either a list of words that are directly borrowed from portuguese, or where the actual origin is portuguese. Because now you just have a list of words that have similar words in english.
(Not meant as an attack, just trying to help to get a clean quiz)
edit: but I agree the title can be confusing with the word origin in it.
edit two: I guess this quiz is intentionally a mix of both (origins and loanwords) which can be very confusing.
Bamboo is from dutch, same with monsoon. Zebra from italian, volta I think aswell. Marmalade, serval, caravel, macaque, cashew and cachalot are from french (portuguese->french->english) Corral from spanish. Tempura from japanese. Veranda from hindi.
Sometimes etymologists do not know which language it came from first, so they say from language x or y. If one of them was portuguese I didnt include those words in the correction.
these are the languages the english language got/borrowed these words from. If you mean the actual Origin of the word, well than you get a completely different list.. I suspect most would ultimately come from latin, greek or arabic (should ve looked when I was looking up the words..)
(Not meant as an attack, just trying to help to get a clean quiz)