A word word (German: Wanderwort) is a word that originates from one particular language and then terminates in many other languages as a loan word, for example, through trade. The word in question gets so many cognates in various languages, making it difficult to know the right origin.
Words like cumin, mint, wine, ginger, coffee and tea are examples of stringed words that have already ended in the Middle East as a result of intercontinental trade in most of the Indo-European languages, including Dutch. About the exact origin of all these words, not everyone agrees. However, it is assumed, among other things, that coffee from Arabic and tea comes from classical Chinese. This last word has undergone strong phonetic adjustments in the different lending languages.
Other old gesture words are spread through the script. An example is the Proto-Indo-Iranian * mudra (cf. Sanskrit Mudrā seal, sign, Pahlavi mwdar, Mutrāk, Persian mohr seal)) which was sealed by the Elamite or Oxus culture to the Akkadian musarû, mušarû ' earning 'is derived. This word is likely to return to the Sumerian musar, composition of mu 'name, fame and sar' writing.
In the 21st century, most of the words have an English origin, such as Internet and computer (indirectly, both words also come from Latin). Two real words with a Dutch origin are (apart from Afrikaans) apartheid and the gas derived by Jan Baptista of Helmont from the Ancient Greek. Also see
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