English /Borrowing from other languages

probably from obsolete hob or nob , literally “have or not have.” Originally in the meaning “to drink together” (perhaps from the notion of buying alternate rounds).

Borrowed from Spanish :

Mosquito = Mosquito in Spanish
Jersey= Jersey in Spanish
Towel = toalla in Spanish
Coward = cobarde in Spanish
Map = mapa Spanish
Jacket = chaceta Spanish
Trap = trapa Spanish
Alumna = alumno Spanish
Lemon = limon Spanish
Junkie = yonkis Spanish
Attic = aticos Spanish
Oyster = ostra Spanish
Asparagus = esparragos Spanish
Spanish speakers, could you please tell me if these words are borrowed from Spanish.

Lemon is 'Farsi' in origin and is pronounced like /limou/ in Farsi. It came into French through Arabic and they called it 'Limon' and then to English and other languages.

Alumnus/a is Latin. It was used way back when the language of instruction in schools was only Latin. Spanish borrowed it from Latin just as much as English did.

Ryan

Map comes from Latin mappa

Do you know where did the word "jeopardy" come from ?

I think "jeopardy" came through French or precisely Old French 'ieu parti'.
The French can tell more.

Jeopardy is from Latin "Jocus Partitus".
Jocus => Game
Partitus => P.P. of "partiri" => divide

From Old French jeu (from Latin jocus “pastime”) + parti (past participle of partir “to divide”), literally “even or divided game.”

Mosquito = borrowed from Spanish, which derived from the Latin "musca" (to fly)
Jersey= named after isle of Jersey in Channel Islands
Towel = from Old French "toaille", borrowed from Old German "dwahila" - "dwahan" (to wash)
Coward = from Old French "couart", which derived from Latin "cauda"
Map = from Latin "mappa"
Jacket = from French "jacquet" - "jacque" (peasant)
Trap = from Latin "drappus"
Alumna = from Latin "alumnus"
Lemon = from Arabic "laymun" or Persian "limun"
Junkie = from Middle English "jonk" (rope). "Yonki" was borrowed from English
Attic = from Latin "atticus"
Oyster = from Latin "ostreum", borrowed from Greek "ostrea"
Asparagus = from Latin "asparagus", borrowed from Greek "aspharagos"

To 'to Fred'

>>Lemon = from Arabic "laymun" or Persian "limun" <<
in Farsi lemon is pronouced like 'limu'.

jeopardy [middle English] The early spelling was 'iuparti', from Old French 'ieu parti' 'an (evenly) divided game'. The term was originally used in chess and other games to refer to a problem or a position in which the chances of winning or losing were evenly balanced : this led to the sense 'a dangerous situation'.

Do you know the origin of the word 'kiosk' ?

Via French kiosque from Turkish kö&#351;k “villa,” from Persian k&#363;šk “villa, palace.”

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From Persian kusk*
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