What's New Read these sentences. Notice the underline words. Can you tell the meaning of these borrowed words? 1. I have toast and marmalade for breakfast. 2. With the skill of an acrobat he swung one leg over the opening. 3. I should have realized you had a phobia about snakes. 4. Not being able to find a new job is causing me great angst. 5. Titanic sunk in 1912 having hit an iceberg in the Atlantic.tulongan ninyo ako
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1. The word "marmalade" is borrowed from the Portuguese marmelada, from marmelo 'quince'. Unlike jam, a large quantity of water is added to the fruit in a marmalade, the extra liquid being set by the high pectin content of the fruit.
2. History and Etymology for acrobat
borrowed from French acrobates, acrobate, borrowed from Middle Greek akrobátēs "tightrope walker," agent derivative of Greek akróbatos "walking on tiptoe," from akro- acro- + -batos, verbal adjective from baínein "to walk, go" — more at come entry 1.
3. The form -phobia comes from Greek phóbos, meaning “fear” or “panic.” The Latin translation is timor, “fear,” which is the source of words such as timid and timorous.
4. What is the origin of angst? Angst “a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish” is a borrowing from German, in which the noun is capitalized, from Old High German angust.
5. The word iceberg is a partial loan translation from the Dutch word ijsberg, literally meaning ice mountain, cognate to Danish isbjerg, German Eisberg, Low Saxon Iesbarg and Swedish isberg.
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