2. Hindi or Sanskrit 3. Mandarin -- 'fish sauce' 5. German -- Joachimsthaler. 'Thal' cognate with English 'dale'. 7. (?) Native American 9. Latin 10. Spanish -> Latin
3. I recently read a long article about ketchup, its origins and migration to the west as a tomato sauce. Lord Somber is quite correct that it was a fish sauce, not sure about the Mandarin origin though, it may have been from the Malay word for fish sauce.
5. Thalers were widely circulated silver coins minted in Germany / Austria, named because they came from, as LSomber says, Joachimsthaler. 'Dollar' is the dutch word for the coin - not many valleys in the Netherlands.
2. Sanskrit - descent
ReplyDelete3. Chinese for "tomato juice"
4. Welsh for "white head"
6. small ball
9. "the many" ?
All good so far.
ReplyDelete2. Hindi or Sanskrit
ReplyDelete3. Mandarin -- 'fish sauce'
5. German -- Joachimsthaler. 'Thal' cognate with English 'dale'.
7. (?) Native American
9. Latin
10. Spanish -> Latin
Hoi polloi Greek.
ReplyDeleteDollar I have as Dutch, near there anyway.
Mosquito Spanish? Little fly.
10 yes.
8 various routes.
No one has 1?
Should have known "mosquito" from Latin "musca."
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ReplyDelete4. Spanish, 'little fatty'
1. Latin, feeble
Yes and dollar does seem Germanic, Bohemian.
ReplyDelete3. I recently read a long article about ketchup, its origins and migration to the west as a tomato sauce. Lord Somber is quite correct that it was a fish sauce, not sure about the Mandarin origin though, it may have been from the Malay word for fish sauce.
ReplyDelete1. At a guess I'd say Latin. Usage, maybe describing empty headedness. That's me to a tee!
ReplyDeleteInsofaras French is of Latin origin.
Delete5. Thalers were widely circulated silver coins minted in Germany / Austria, named because they came from, as LSomber says, Joachimsthaler. 'Dollar' is the dutch word for the coin - not many valleys in the Netherlands.
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