In cases where parts of the claimed etymology are beyond doubt, perusal of various dictionaries may reveal that the dictionaries differ among themselves on the details. Speculative claims are identified properly (as being speculative) by some dictionaries and not by other dictionaries. Some etymological claims are nothing more than a speculation as to what the etymology could possibly be an example of this is the claim that "monkey" derives from Arabic. Various dictionaries may differ among themselves on the etymology of a given word, to a minor extent or a major extent. Many claimed etymologies are difficult to verify. Reliability of etymological claims Speaking about etymological claims in general, interested persons are cautioned to examine them carefully for validity and detail. Within the Afro-Asiatic language family, Arabic borrowed words from the Semitic languages Hebrew, Aramaic, and Akkadian and the non-Semitic language Coptic (Ancient Egyptian). Arabic acquired words from Latin, Greek, Persian, or from fellow members of the Afroasiatic language family. But some of these loanwords from Arabic (a Semitic language) are not of Arabic origin: they are loanwords in Arabic itself. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia There are numerous Arabic loanwords in English, i.e., words of English acquired directly from Arabic or indirectly, by passing from Arabic into a third language (often Spanish) and then into English.
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