War, law & rule

commando

Portuguese comando 'command' reached the Dutch of the Cape, whose mounted militia units were kommandos; English met them in the frontier and Boer wars, named its own raiders Commandos in 1940, and the Second World War spread the word to French, Greek and Hebrew.

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The road to English

From Dutch to Afrikaans

From English to French

From English to Modern Hebrew

From English to Modern Greek

200 BCELatin

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