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cafeteria

Arabic qahwa 'coffee' reached Spanish through Turkish, Italian and French; Mexican Spanish built cafetería 'coffee shop' from it, and American English borrowed that word in 1839, later remaking it into a self-service restaurant.

Weakest linkProbable

The road to American English

From American English to Mexican Spanish

600 CEArabic

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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