Germanic Family
G
German
Writer of American English dictionary
Noah Webster
SCUBA, NASA e.g.
acronyms
Oejay Idenbay, Aylortay Iftsway
Pig Latin
H
Hindi
Animal Sounds
bow-wow
Du
Dutch
Epic Poem in early English
Beowulf
Kleenex, Frisbee e.g.
brand names
race car, kayak
palindrome
U
Urdu
Positive emotion
la-la
N
Norwegian
inventor of the Cherokee alphabet
Sequoia
brunch, spork
portmanteaux
runny babbit
spoonerism
B
Bengali
working
yo-he-ho
I
icelandic
Middle English went through what language "shift"
Great Vowel Shift
cool, groovy
slang
Jose, can you see?
mondegreen
Pu
Punjabi
negative emotion
pooh-pooh
Y
Yiddish
Chaucer wrote the ____ Tales
Canterbury
Leotard, Diesel, Fahrenheit
Eponyms
Eat to live, or live to eat
chiasmus
Pa
Pashto
nature sounds
ding-dong