Animals, plants & weather

mosquito

Spanish and Portuguese mosquito is simply 'little fly', from Latin musca; English took it from Iberian sailors in the 1580s, and French, Dutch, German and Russian took it from the tropics too — in Russian it names a sandfly.

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The road to English

From Spanish to French, Haitian Creole

From Spanish to Portuguese

From Spanish to Dutch

From Spanish to German

From Spanish to Russian

From Latin to Italian

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

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