A Wanderwort (German: [ˈvandɐvɔʁt], 'migrant word', sometimes pluralized as Wanderwörter, usually capitalized following German practice) is a word that...

abandon it for another target language (the superstrate).[relevant?] A Wanderwort is a word that has been borrowed across a wide range of languages remote...

to new areas, via the Dravidian languages of India, into Arabic as a Wanderwort. The word "banana" is thought to be of West African origin, possibly from...

Semitic language, as both saif and xiphos go back to an old (Bronze Age) wanderwort of the Eastern Mediterranean of unknown ultimate origin. Richard F. Burton...

grammatical form. ⟨%⟩ A generalized form, such as a typical shape of a wanderwort that has not actually been reconstructed. ⟨#⟩ A word boundary – e.g. ⟨#V⟩...

*mayVr (whence the Tamil word for peacock மயில் (mayil)) or a regional Wanderwort. Many Hindu deities are associated with the bird, Krishna is often depicted...

kakumei ('revolution'). Gairaigo Inkhorn term Language contact Loanword Wanderwort Word coinage Imperative form of the verb tenir, "to hold". figuratively...

origin, although their morphology rather suggest a non-Indo-European Wanderwort. Some scholars have thus proposed a Paleo-Hispanic origin, pointing to...

Trans-New Guinea. This is because they are more likely to be an areal form (Wanderwort) in the case of the word for 'louse' or to be highly conservative in the...

distribution. In addition, the word for ‘metal’ or ‘copper’ is actually a Wanderwort (cf. North Saami veaiki, Finnish vaski ‘copper, bronze’, Hungarian vas...

ὄρυζα, Sanskrit vrīhí- ("rice"). The 'rice' words in Gk and IIr are wanderworts. The Gk word may be borrowed from an Eastern Iranian language. βρυνχός...

(*kuru or *kolo) which meant castle or fortress. The word was possibly a Wanderwort like the Middle Mongolian qoto-n. Several possible cognates for 忽 exist...

the Dravidian languages of India, into Persian, Greek, and Arabic as a Wanderwort: The late Latin term musa was later chosen by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, as...

analogous phonetic changes in Gothic, North Germanic and modern Faroese Wanderwort, "migratory term/word", a word which spreads from its original language...

contend that the word cannabis likely spread later across Eurasia as a Wanderwort ('wandering word'), ultimately borrowed into Ancient Greek and Sanskrit...

Proto-Niger–Congo). These roots are generally widespread areal forms (Wanderworts), with some of them also found in Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages...

viewed language as an organic system and warned against loan words and Wanderworts, which spread as loanwords among languages and cultures, and which can...