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ENGLISH WORDS OF ARABIC ORIGIN: AN ETYMOLOGICAL SURVEY
Abstract:
This research work discusses the sociolinguistic phenomenon of borrowing among languages whenever they come into contact. It provides an insight into the notion of language borrowing and how it affects the vocabulary build-up of a given language. This research investigates the roots of some English words of Arabic origin and how they made their way into the stock of the English vocabulary. The study elaborates the meaning of language borrowing, its implications, reasons, the role it plays in vocabulary build-up, etc. It also discusses the nature of the relationship between the English language and Arabic and how they came into contact. The research work is archival. The researcher explains how he went about collecting the data that would be sampled, presented and analyzed later, and the techniques applied in the data collection and analysis. The research presents the data collected and analyzes it by putting the data in tables. This tabulation categorizes the meanings, routes, the nature of borrowing, and the approximate time of the appearance of some of these loanwords in the English vocabulary. The raw data of this research comprises a list of Arabic loanwords in the English language. The findings of the investigation show how the English and Arabic languages came into contact, and how Arabic words influenced the English vocabulary, and it also indicates the major fields of specialization from which most of the borrowed words originated. It also examines the levels to which most of these loanwords got assimilated into the borrowing language. It is generally an etymological analysis of some Arabic originated words that became part of the English vocabulary today
ENGLISH WORDS OF ARABIC ORIGIN: AN ETYMOLOGICAL SURVEY
