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:Terms which passed (by borrowing) through the greatest number of languages on their way to their destination. (Descent through different temporal stages of a language doesn't count, e.g. a word that passed from PIE into Proto-Italic into Latin into Old French into Middle French, and was borrowed into Middle English and survived into modern English, was only borrowed once: otherwise, this becomes just a list of "languages for which we reconstruct, and which we divide up into, the most ancestors".)

 

* {{l|en|oka}} (English, 7 links): from Italian, from French, from Turkish, possibly from Arabic, from Classical Syriac, from Greek, from Latin

* {{l|en|papirosa}} (English, 6-7 links): from Russian, from Polish, partly from Spanish, and partly from German, from Latin, from Greek, from Egyptian

* {{l|en|shaman}} (English, 6 links): from German, from Russian, from Evenki, from either Tocharian B or Chinese, ultimately (either way) from Pali, from Sanskrit

* {{l|en|burnoose}} (English, 6 links): from French, from Arabic, from Aramaic, from Greek, from Latin, from Gaulish

* {{l|en|indium}} (English, 5-6 links): from New Latin, from German, from Spanish, from Greek, from [Old] Persian, possibly from {{w|Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex|the BMAC substrate}}

 

==Longest words==

 

==Most anagrams==

* {{l|en|phrase}} (English, 20)

 

==Most borrowings of the same word into the same language==

# {{m|en|mail||chainmail}} passed through Old French {{m|fro|maille}} (losing the 'c'),

# {{m|en|macchia||Mediterranean scrubland}} came via Corsican (losing the 'l')

: Furthermore, {{m|en|macle||crystal, twin crystal}}, which comes from French {{m|fr|macle}}, is of unclear origin; it may derive from {{m|la|macula||spot}}, or it may derive from {{m|la|mascula||mesh}}.

 

; widely borrowed words

* Proto-Indo-European [[User:-sche/sugar|*''ḱorkeh₂'']] ("gravel, boulder"; in descendants: "sugar") (260 descendants, of which 174 are instances of borrowing)

 

; widely inherited, inherited by a large number of child languages

; Terms of more than one character

# {{l|yo|da}} (Yoruba, 20)

# {{l|enm|here}} (Middle English, 15)

# {{l|enm|won}} (Middle English, 15)

# {{l|egy|zꜣ}} (Egyptian, 15)<!--although this is an odd case, a romanization of several things-->

# {{l|enm|wane}} (Middle English, 14)

# {{l|ja|上下}} (Japanese, 13)

# {{l|ko|지대}} (Korean, 13)

# {{l|enm|wan}} (Middle English, 13)

# {{l|vi|chỉ}} (Vietnamese, 13)

# {{l|yo|sin}} (Yoruba, 12)

# {{l|aho|𑜁𑜧}} (Ahom, 11)

# {{l|ja|幾許}} (Japanese, 11)

# {{l|ko|사화}} (Korean, 11)

 

; Single characters:

# {{l|ja|私}} (Japanese, 17)

# {{l|zh|敦}} (Chinese, 15)

# {{l|ko|이}} (Korean, 14)

# {{l|en|a-}} (English, 11)

# {{l|ja|靖}} (Japanese, 11)

# English (10): {{l|en|Cy}}, {{l|en|psi}}, {{l|en|sai}}, {{l|en|scye}}, {{l|en|Si}}, {{l|en|sie}}, {{l|en|sigh}}, {{l|en|Sy}}, {{l|en|xi}}, {{l|en|Sye}}

 

* {{l|en|set}} (English, 85 senses)

* {{l|en|go}} (English, 74 senses: 61 verb and 13 noun senses)

* {{l|en|parashah}} (English, 7) (different English spellings of three Hebrew pronunciations)

* {{l|ar|ذَكَر|t=[[male]]}} (Arabic, 6)

* {{l|en|rete mirabile}} (English, 5) (four non-standard Latin plurals)

<!--Agens and Seraph have 4 each, but this is possibly not impressive-->

==Most pronunciations==

;phonemic

* {{l|en|pecan}} (English, 10–12)

* {{l|en|quahog}} (English, at least 10 phonemic pronunciations)<!--more if UK vs US /əʊ/ and /oʊ/ and vowel length and /ɒ/ vs /ɑ/ were correct and considered contrastive-->

 

;phonetic

* {{l|en|háček}} (English, 10)

 

# Middle English: {{l|enm|seien}} (44)

# Old French: {{l|fro|gingembre}} (43)

# English: {{l|en|ambergris}} (35)

# English: {{l|en|kinnikinnick}} (34)

# Portuguese: {{l|pt|signo-de-salomão}} (24)

# Old French: {{l|fro|amiral}} (22)

# English: {{l|en|khoomei}} (21)

# English: {{l|en|Hanukkah}} (19)

# English: {{l|en|whoop-de-doo}} (19)

# Armenian: {{l|hy|բադրիջան}} (18)

# Chinese: {{l|zh|疙瘩}} (18)

# English: {{l|en|Portuguese man-of-war}} (15)

# English: {{l|en|yarmulke}} (15)

 

; personal names and related terms<!--listed separately because names' spellings are often more variable than words'-->

# English: {{l|en|Gaddafi}} (61)

# English: {{l|en|Farquhar}} (28)

# Portuguese: {{l|pt|Gengis Khan}} (21)

# English: {{l|en|Muammar}} (14)

 

==Most syllables in one character==

 

 

==Most translations==

 

(as of April 15, 2016)

# [[woman/translations|woman]] [789] - [879] as of 03:22, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

# [[corpse]] [381]

# [[horse]] [326]

# [[mouth]] [322]

# [[butterfly]] [300]

# [[tree]] [289]

# [[four]] [287]

# [[bee]] [273]

# [[mountain]] [270]

# [[five]] [268]

;English:

* {{l|en|alligator||one who binds|id=binds}}

* {{l|en|beer||one who exists|id=exists}}

* {{l|en|bullet||little bull|id=bull}}

* {{l|en|flower||one that flows|id=flows}}

* {{l|en|irony||pertaining to iron|id=iron}}

* {{l|en|misle|misled|rained lightly}}

* {{l|en|mister||a device that makes or sprays mist|id=spray}}

* {{l|en|outer||one who outs (someone or something)|id=outverb}}

* {{l|en|peer||one who pees|id=urinator}}

* {{l|en|prayer||one who prays|id=prays}}

* {{l|en|remember||to reconstitute, re-member|id=reconstitute}}

* {{l|en|sewer||one who sews|id=sews}}

* {{l|en|shower||one who shows|id=shows}}

* {{l|en|singer||one who [[singe]]s|id=singes}}

* {{l|en|teenage||brushwood|id=brushwood}}

 

==Silly spellings==

* surprisingly not the result of keyboard mashing: {{l|sq|gjyq}}<!--replace with longer strings of all consonants if they exist-->

* something which ''is'' the result of keyboard-mashing, across two scripts: {{l|ja|くぁwせdrftgyふじこlp}}

* an ancient word (attested ~2280 years ago) that looks like an emoji: [[𑀇𑀥]] ("here")

 

==Words created in error==

 

 

==Other silliness==

 

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