Typical examples of are
cannabis,
sugar,
ginger,
copper,
cumin,
mint,
wine, and
honey, some of which can be traced back to
Bronze Age trade. ,
Turkic,
Indo-Iranian, and
Chinese words for 'camel' throughout Africa and Eurasia.
Tea, with its Eurasian continental variant
chai (both have entered English), is an example is used in
Cantonese and
Mandarin.
Chocolate and
tomato were both taken from
Classical Nahuatl via Spanish into many different languages, although the specific origin of
chocolate is obscure.
Farang, a term derived from the
ethnonym Frank through
Andalusian Arabic, refers to foreigners (typically white and European ones). From the above two languages, the word has been loaned into many languages spoken on or near the Indian Ocean, including
Hindi,
Thai, and
Amharic, among others. It also existed in Russian in the form "" with the same meaning.
Kangaroo was taken from the
Guugu Yimithirr word for the
eastern grey kangaroo; it entered English through the records of
James Cook's expedition of 1770 and through English to languages around the world.
Orange originated in a
Dravidian language (likely
Tamil,
Telugu or
Malayalam), and its likely path to English included, in order,
Sanskrit, Persian, possibly
Armenian, Arabic,
Italian, and
Old French. The words for '
horse' across many Eurasian languages seem to be related such as
Mongolian (),
Manchu (),
Korean (),
Japanese (), and
Thai (), as well as
Sino-Tibetan languages like Mandarin (). It is present in several
Celtic and
Germanic languages, for example
Irish and English
mare. ==References==