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petunia1369
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I need the etymology of these words: magazine, mosquito, orange, turban, umbrella.
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dbrooks22 Teacher
High School - 11th GradeeNotes Editor
Posted by dbrooks22 on Thursday October 9, 2008 at 4:38 PMHere is the etymology of the words you need.
Magazine
"a place where goods are stored, especially military ammunition," from Middle French, magasin
"warehouse, depot, store," from Italian magazzino
from Arabic makhazin, plural of makhzan "storehouse" from khazana "to store up."
Mosquito
from Spanish mosquito "little gnat," diminutive of mosca "fly,"
from Classical Latin. musca "fly"
from Proto-Indo-European, base *mu-, perhaps imitative of the sound of humming insects.
Orange
from Old French orange
from Midieval.Latin pomum de orange
from Italian arancia, originally narancia (Venetian naranza)
alternate of Arabic naranj
from Persian narang
from Sanskrit naranga-s "orange tree"
Turban
from Middle French turbantfrom Italian turbante (Old Italian. tolipante)from Turkish tülbent "gauze, muslin, tulle"from Persian dulband "turban"
Umbrella
from Italina ombrello,
from Late Latin umbrella, altered (by influence of umbra)
from Classical Latin umbella "sunshade, parasol," diminutive of umbra "shade, shadow".
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