leo elephantus camellopardis camelus

tigris vacca leopardus feles

ovis porcus canis avis

Which language gave us these words?

1. muffin2. meringue3. anchovy4. cookie5. sauce6. Marmalade7. lemon8. ketchup9. barbecue10. pork

Where do our food words come from?Ketchup TibetanAlcohol ArabicAnchovy BasqueBarbecue CaribbeanCookie DutchLemon PersianSauce

FrenchMuffin GermanMeringue HaitiMarmalade Portuguese

How many more can you find?

Indo-European

Indo European

Celtic

Germanic

Persian

SlavicBaltic

Hellenic

Latin

EnglishDutchGerman FrisianFlemish AfrikaansYiddishDanishNorwegianSwedishIcelandic

ItalianSpanishFrenchRomanianPortugueseRomanischProvencalCatalanGalicianMoldavianUmbrian

Germanic

How many key words in the dictionary?

Match the language with the number of words.

French 176,000Spanish 135,000German about 60,000English 88,000

Why is it difficult to give an exact answer?

Romance

Germanic

EnglishcowbeefKuhvacheboeufRindfleisch

Why are there so many words in English?

Which text is about children having fun? Which text mentions animals? Which text mentions war and dangers? Can you find the word in each language for children? Which of these two words has a ‘cousin’ or cognate word used in Britain? Which two languages do you think these might be? Which language families do they belong to?