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adobe

The sun-dried mud brick of the American Southwest has a name 4,000 years old: Egyptian ḏbt 'brick' became Coptic tōbe, Arabic aṭ-ṭūb, Spanish adobe, then Mexican Spanish for the mud-brick houses of New Spain, and finally American English.

Weakest linkProbable

The road to American English

From Old Spanish to Spanish

From Arabic to Portuguese

2000 BCEAncient Egyptian

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