_Hindustani_: calico, jungle, pariah, punch, rupee, shampoo, toddy.
_Malay_: a-muck, bamboo, bantam, gamboge, gong, gutta-percha, mango.
_Chinese_: nankeen, tea.
_Polynesian_: kangaroo, taboo, tattoo.
_American Indian_: maize, moccasin, pemmican, potato, tobacco,
tomahawk, tomato, wigwam.
_Celtic_: bard, bran, brat, cradle, clan, druid, pony, whiskey.
_Scandinavian_: by-law, clown, dregs, fellow, glade, hustings, kidnap,
plough.
_Dutch, or Hollandish_: block, boom, bowsprit, reef, skates, sloop,
yacht.
_Italian_: canto, cupola, gondola, grotto, lava, opera, piano, regatta,
soprano, stucco, vista.
_Spanish_: armada, cargo, cigar, desperado, flotilla, grandee,
mosquito, mulatto, punctilio, sherry, sierra.
_Portuguese_: caste, commodore, fetish, mandarin, palaver.
9. PROPORTIONS.--On an examination of passages selected from modern English
authors, it is found that of every hundred words sixty are of Anglo-Saxon
origin, thirty of Latin, five of Greek, and all the other sources combined
furnish the remaining five.
By actual count, there are more words of classical than of Anglo-Saxon
origin in the English vocabulary,--probably two and a half times as
many of the former as of the latter. But Anglo-Saxon words are so much
more employed--owing to the constant repetition of conjunctions,
prepositions, adverbs, auxiliaries, etc. (all of Anglo-Saxon
origin)--that in any page of even the most Latinized writer they
greatly preponderate.
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