User:Stelio/Lexical List of Lovely Loanwords

The challenge: Come up with a list of 26 loanwords in English, one for every letter of the alphabet, A to Z.

• Each word must come from a different language.
  • On the Wiktionary entry for the English word, the source language is the one the word is immediately taken from. So cephalic counts as a loanword from Middle French, not the earlier Latin or even earlier Ancient Greek.
  • Different flavours of a language all count as the same language, so each of Old Latin, Classical Latin, Vulgar Latin count as Latin. But Italian is different to Latin.
• Each word must come from a different country.
  • You can only use Spanish and Arabic once each, even though they are spoken in many countries.
  • You can only use India and USA once each, even though they both host multiple languages.
  • You could use Italy for Italian or Latin, but not both. But you could use Italy for Italian and additionally use the Vatican for a loanword specifically from Ecclesiastical Latin.
• They must all be direct loanwords into modern English.
  • For example you can't use example because that came from Old French into Middle English. That's considered part of the modern English corpus already rather than a loanword.

• Easy mode: allow any English lemmata.
• Normal mode: exclude any proper nouns and word parts (prefixes, suffixes, etc.).
• Hard mode: also exclude terms for creatures and food/drink.

Set yourself whatever additional constraints you would like. For example, I deemed common words to be preferable to obscure words. And I didn't just trawl through Wiktionary's categories, as that wouldn't have made it an interesting challenge.

Add your completed entries below, hidden to prevent spoilers.

Stelio

Oi, no peeking at my answers!

Genuinely, try coming up with your own list first. If you look at someone else's answers then it will spoil the challenge completely for you.

Spoilers inside...

Loanword	Country	Language
anorak	Denmark	Greenlandic
brandy	Netherlands	Dutch
chimpanzee	Angola	Bantu
dojo	Japan	Japanese
excommunicate	Vatican	Ecclesiastical Latin
fjord	Norway	Norwegian
guitar	Spain	Spanish
hallelujah	Israel	Hebrew
igloo	Canada	Inuktitut
jinn	Arabia	Arabic
kangaroo	Australia	Guugu Yimidhirr
leprechaun	Ireland	Irish
mana	New Zealand	Maori
nirvana	India	Sanskrit
okapi	Congo	Mvuba
port	Portugal	Portuguese
qi	China	Mandarin
ravioli	Italy	Italian
sherbet	Turkey	Turkish
taboo	Tonga	Tongan
urban	France	Middle French
vodka	Russia	Russian
wigwam	USA	Abenaki
xiphos	Greece	Ancient Greek
yo-yo	Philippines	Ilocano
zeitgeist	Germany	German