Borrowed Tongues

Swipe word roots, uncover etymology, and collect every borrowed word in English.

Every word has a story. Some of them are a thousand years in the making.Did you know English is more than half French in origin — a legacy of the Norman Conquest of 1066? Did you know most star names in English are Arabic, because Arab astronomers mapped and named the sky a thousand years before telescopes existed? Did you know "rodeo" — a word that feels as American as it gets — is actually Spanish, from …