Balaclava- wearing vampires
The vampire ( Serbian) in a balaclava ( Ukrainian) sat in a coach ( Hungarian), using a biro( Hungarian) to tot up his bridge ( Russian) score while the sleazy( Latvian) Cossack (Ukrainian) waved his sabre ( Hungarian) at the cravat (Croatian) – wearing cosmonaut ( Russian); the robot( Czech) shot a horde(Polish) of mammoths (Russian) with a pistol(Czech). They all retired to a bistro (Russian) to talk (Lithuanian) and eat some pastrami (Romanian).
Can you find some words from your own language that have been incorporated into the English Language? If you are a mother tongue speaker you could choose a different country. List the words in the comment section below. We would like to make a collection of these for the classrooms and see how many we can find by the end of the year.
Happy hunting!
In England in many villages names ends in by, that in danish means village, Grimsby is named after a danish viking called grim who found the village.
ReplyDeleteA Danish comes from the word wienerbrød in Denmark,which means a cake espacilly a round cake with cinneman or chocolate on the top
ReplyDeleteJames, This is an amazing list! Well done indeed.
ReplyDeleteAnna, how interesting! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWell done Emelia. Thank you for your contribution.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good list Marissa.Well done.
ReplyDeleteCan you research further to find words that have come from another language and are now used in English, e.g. algebra is from arabic.
Gosh, it seems very difficult to pronounce! Thanks for your interesting contribution.
ReplyDeleteGrazie per your contribution Candida. Well done.
ReplyDeleteThank you ma!
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