Can you name the languages of origin of the following words (excludes Old/Middle English)? by cairo140

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Word Etymologies Quiz

by cairo140

Created Nov 13, 2009 in Language
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	RS89:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 09:02 GMT		4 points
	Schmooze is Yiddish, not Hebrew. Also, not entirely sure that sadism belongs on here, as it comes from a person's name.

	kagomeshuko:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 04:28 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz.

	Pit_trout:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 17:21 GMT		1 point
	Some of these are a bit ambiguous... e.g. excise probably came originally from Latin, via French and then Dutch - so Latin is at least an arguable answer for it. Conversely, encyclopedia was apparently never authentically ancient Greek, but a pseudo-Greek coinage by late Latin writers. So maybe there should be some more alternate answers for things like these? Nice quiz, though. (I'm going from oed.com as a reference here.)

	skatty14:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 04:56 GMT		1 point
	Yes, would have to agree some of these are a bit questionable...I mean, I swear to god I typed in every language from sanskrit to welsh trying to get the right answer! I never even though of dutch, doh. Excellent quiz nevertheless, I loved it! :)

	samcash13593:	Mar 27th, 2011 at 20:18 GMT		1 point
	what does lei mean?

	BenjaminBaudin:	Feb 20th, 2013 at 17:00 GMT		1 point
	"Lei" has at least three meanings, only one of which is Hawaiian (the garland). I tried "Romanian", "Rumanian" and even "Roumanian" :\| Interesting quiz though.