TY - BOOK ID - 71481661 TI - Borrowed words PY - 2014 SN - 9780191667060 0191667064 1306300231 9781306300230 9780199574995 0199574995 0191667072 0198736495 PB - Oxford Scholarship Online DB - UniCat KW - 802.0-02 KW - 802.0-02 Engels. Engelse taalkunde--?-02 KW - Engels. Engelse taalkunde--?-02 KW - Comparative linguistics. KW - English language KW - Etymology. KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Etymology KW - Words KW - History KW - English language - Etymology KW - English language - Words - History KW - Historical linguistics KW - Germanic languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:71481661 AB - "The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian to, among others, Hebrew, Maori, Malay, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, and Yiddish. Philip Durkin's full and accessible history reveals how, when, and why. He shows how to discover the origins of loanwords, when and why they were adopted, and what happens to them once they have been."--Publishers website. ER -