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Which language gave us these words?

Which language gave us these words?. m uffin m eringue a nchovy c ookie s auce Marmalade l emon k etchup barbecue pork. Where do our food words come from?. Ketchup Tibetan Alcohol Arabic Anchovy Basque Barbecue Caribbean Cookie Dutch Lemon Persian Sauce French

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Which language gave us these words?

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  1. Which language gave us these words? • muffin • meringue • anchovy • cookie • sauce • Marmalade • lemon • ketchup • barbecue • pork

  2. Where do our food words come from? Ketchup Tibetan Alcohol Arabic Anchovy Basque Barbecue Caribbean Cookie Dutch Lemon Persian Sauce French Muffin German Meringue Haiti Marmalade Portuguese How many more can you find?

  3. Indo-European Italian Spanish French Romanian Portuguese Romanisch Provencal Catalan Galician Moldavian Umbrian English Dutch German Frisian Flemish Afrikaans Yiddish Danish Norwegian Swedish Icelandic

  4. Germanic Indo-european

  5. How many key words in the dictionary? Match the language with the number of words. French 176,000 Spanish 135,000 German about 60,000 English 88,000 Why is it difficult to give an exact answer?

  6. Romance Germanic English cow beef Kuh vache boeuf Rindfleisch

  7. Why are there so many words in English?

  8. Which text is about children having fun?  Which text mentions animals?  Which text mentions war and dangers?  Can you find the word in each language for children?  Which of these two words has a ‘cousin’ or cognate word used in Britain?  Which two languages do you think these might be?  Which language families do they belong to?

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