Germanic Family
History of English
Word Origins
Word Games
Indo-Iranian Family
Language Origin Theories
100

G

German

100

Writer of American English dictionary

Noah Webster

100

SCUBA, NASA e.g.

acronyms

100

Oejay Idenbay, Aylortay Iftsway

Pig Latin

100

Hindi

100

Animal Sounds

bow-wow

200

Du

Dutch

200

Epic Poem in early English

Beowulf

200

Kleenex, Frisbee e.g.

brand names

200

race car, kayak

palindrome

200

U

Urdu

200

Positive emotion

la-la

300

N

Norwegian

300

inventor of the Cherokee alphabet

Sequoia

300

brunch, spork

portmanteaux

300

runny babbit

spoonerism

300

B

Bengali

300

working

yo-he-ho

400

I

icelandic

400

Middle English went through what language "shift"

Great Vowel Shift

400

cool, groovy

slang

400

Jose, can you see?

mondegreen

400

Pu

Punjabi

400

negative emotion

pooh-pooh

500

Y

Yiddish

500

Chaucer wrote the ____ Tales

Canterbury

500

Leotard, Diesel, Fahrenheit

Eponyms

500

Eat to live, or live to eat

chiasmus

500

Pa 

Pashto

500

nature sounds

ding-dong