leo elephantus camellopardis camelus
tigris vacca leopardus feles
ovis porcus canis avis
Which language gave us these words?
1. muffin2. meringue3. anchovy4. cookie5. sauce6. Marmalade7. lemon8. ketchup9. barbecue10. pork
Where do our food words come from?Ketchup TibetanAlcohol ArabicAnchovy BasqueBarbecue CaribbeanCookie DutchLemon PersianSauce
FrenchMuffin GermanMeringue HaitiMarmalade Portuguese
How many more can you find?
Indo-European
Indo European
Celtic
Germanic
Persian
SlavicBaltic
Hellenic
Latin
EnglishDutchGerman FrisianFlemish AfrikaansYiddishDanishNorwegianSwedishIcelandic
ItalianSpanishFrenchRomanianPortugueseRomanischProvencalCatalanGalicianMoldavianUmbrian
Germanic
How many key words in the dictionary?
Match the language with the number of words.
French 176,000Spanish 135,000German about 60,000English 88,000
Why is it difficult to give an exact answer?
Romance
Germanic
EnglishcowbeefKuhvacheboeufRindfleisch
Why are there so many words in English?
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?