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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|
* {{l|
* {{l|lv|cukurs|t=sugar}} (Latvian, 7 links): from Livonian, from German, from Latin, from Italian, from Arabic, from Persian, from Sanskrit
* {{l|en|oka}} (English, 7 links): from Italian, from French, from Turkish, possibly from Arabic, from Classical Syriac, from Greek, from Latin
* {{l|hi|शामन|t=shaman}} (Hindi, 7 links): from English, from German, from Russian, from Evenki, from either Tocharian B or Chinese, ultimately (either way) from Pali, from Sanskrit
* {{
* {{
* {{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|tpi|rais}} and {{l|bi|raes|t=rice}} (Tok Pisin and Bislama, 6+ links): from English, from [Old] French, from [Old] Italian, from [Byzantine] Greek, from Persian/Iranian, from some Eastern source [compare Sanskrit, from Dravidian or something else]
* {{l|pl|cukier|t=sugar}} (Polish, 6 links): from German, from Latin, from Italian, from Arabic, from Persian, from Sanskrit
* {{l|fi|inkivääri|t=ginger}} (Finnish, 6 links): from Swedish, from [Middle] Low German, from Latin, from Greek, from Middle Indic, from Dravidian/Tamil
* {{l|fi|kanava|t=canal}} (Finnish, 6 links) from Russian, from Polish, from Italian (inherited from Latin), from Ancient Greek, from Akkadian, from Sumerian
* {{l|fi|sokeri|t=sugar}} (Finnish, 6 links): from Swedish, from Low German, from Italian, from Arabic, from Persian, from Sanskrit
* {{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|
* {{
▲* {{l|ja|オレンジ}} (Japanese, 6 links): from English, from French, from Arabic, from Persian, from Sanskrit, from Dravidian
* {{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}}
* {{l|en|sabre}} (English, 4-6 links): from French, from German, from Polish, from Hungarian, from perhaps a Turkic language, from perhaps Manchu <!--Can we find a Creole that borrows it from English?-->
==Longest words==
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==Most anagrams==
* {{l|en|TSA}} (English,
* {{l|en|parse}} (English,
* {{l|en|phrase}} (English, 20)
▲* {{l|en|least}} (English, 20)
▲* {{l|en|scare}} (English, 20)
▲* {{l|en|stare}} (English, 20)
==Most borrowings of the same word into the same language==
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# {{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')
# and {{m|en|maquis||(French) resistance movement}} came via the same
: 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}}.
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; widely borrowed words
* Proto-Indo-European [[User:-sche/sugar|*''ḱorkeh₂'']] ("gravel, boulder"; in descendants: "sugar") (260 descendants, of which 174 are instances of borrowing)
* Proto-
* Proto-Sino-Tibetan {{m|sit-pro|*s-la}} (the source of "tea"; 168 descendants, mostly instances of borrowing)
; widely inherited, inherited by a large number of child languages
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; Terms of more than one character
# {{l|yo|da}} (Yoruba, 20)
# {{l|ar|أغلب}} (Arabic, 16)▼
# {{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|ar|تكدس}} (Arabic, 14)▼
# {{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)
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# {{l|yo|sin}} (Yoruba, 12)
# {{l|aho|𑜁𑜧}} (Ahom, 11)
# {{l|ar|أحسن}} (Arabic, 11)▼
# {{l|ja|幾許}} (Japanese, 11)
# {{l|ko|사화}} (Korean, 11)
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; Single characters:
# {{l|ja|私}} (Japanese, 17)
# {{l|
# {{l|zh|敦}} (Chinese, 15)
# {{l|ko|이}} (Korean, 14)
# {{l|en|a-}} (English, 11)
# {{l|ja|靖}} (Japanese, 11)
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# 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}}
==Most
* {{l|en|take}} (English, 100 senses: 88 verb senses, 12 noun sense)
* {{l|en|set}} (English, 85 senses)
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==Most pronunciations==
;phonemic
* {{l|nan-
* {{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-->
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;phonetic
* {{l|frp|ârbro}} (Franco-Provençal) (185 {{q|some may be repeated more than once}})
* {{l|en|háček}} (English, 10)
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# Middle English: {{l|enm|seien}} (44)
# Old French: {{l|fro|gingembre}} (43)
# English: {{l|en|ambergris}} (35)
# English: {{l|en|kinnikinnick}} (34)
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# 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)
▲# English: {{l|en|papadam}} (18)
# Armenian: {{l|hy|բադրիջան}} (18)
# Chinese: {{l|zh|疙瘩}} (18)
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# English: {{l|en|Portuguese man-of-war}} (15)
# English: {{l|en|yarmulke}} (15)
▲# English: {{l|en|Caesarean#Usage_notes|cesarean}} (12)
; personal names and related terms<!--listed separately because names' spellings are often more variable than words'-->
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# English: {{l|en|Gaddafi}} (61)
# English: {{l|en|Farquhar}} (28)
# English: {{l|en|Husayn}} (
# English: {{l|en|Dostoyevskian}} (
# Portuguese: {{l|pt|Gengis Khan}} (21)
# English: {{l|en|Muammar}} (14)
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==Most syllables in one character==
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<!-- Do not include cases where Unicode gave plainly multiple-character (even multiple-word) phrases a single codepoint, e.g. [[ﷺ]] -->
* Japanese: {{ja-r|承|うけたまわり}} (6 syllables; 6 morae)
* Japanese: {{ja-r|慮|おもんぱかり}} (5 syllables; 6 morae)
* Japanese: {{ja-r|志|こころざし}} (5 syllables; 5 morae)
* Japanese: {{ja-r|詔|みことのり}} (5 syllables; 5 morae)
* Japanese: {{ja-r|忝|かたじけな}} (5 syllables; 5 morae)
* Japanese: {{ja-r|忇|こうろうがおお}} (4 syllables; 7 morae)
* Chinese: [[File:Zhaocaijinbao.svg|22px]]
==Most translations==
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(as of April 15, 2016)
# [[water/translations|water]] [
# [[woman/translations|woman]] [789] - [879] as of 03:22, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
# [[dog/translations|dog]] [482]
# [[fish/translations|fish]] [399]
# [[rain/translations|rain]] [399]
# [[corpse]] [381]
# [[one/translations|one]] [346]
# [[fire/translations|fire]] [338]
# [[smoke/translations|smoke]] [331]
# [[horse]] [326]
# [[mouth]] [322]
# [[coffee/translations|coffee]] [321]
# [[eye/translations|eye]] [308]
# [[sun/translations|sun]] [305]
# [[ear/translations|ear]] [304]
# [[iron/translations|iron]] [300]
# [[butterfly]] [300]
# [[tree]] [289]
# [[four]] [287]
# [[bear/translations|bear]] [287]
# [[father/translations|father]] [286]
# [[I/translations|I]] [284]
# [[house/translations|house]] [276]
# [[language/translations|language]] [274]
# [[man/translations|man]] (2) [273]
# [[bee]] [273]
# [[heart/translations|heart]] [273]
# [[book/translations|book]] [272]
# [[mountain]] [270]
# [[five]] [268]
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;English:
* {{l|en|alligator||one who binds|id=binds}}
* {{l|en|apply
* {{l|en|beer||one who exists|id=exists}}
* {{l|en|bullet||little bull|id=bull}}
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* {{l|en|flower||one that flows|id=flows}}
* {{l|en|irony||pertaining to iron|id=iron}}
* {{l|en|liver||one who lives|id=lives}}, {{l|en|liver||more live|id=more live}}
* {{l|en|luster
* {{l|en|misle|misled|rained lightly}}
* {{l|en|mister||a device that makes or sprays mist|id=spray}}
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* {{l|en|outer||one who outs (someone or something)|id=outverb}}
* {{l|en|peer||one who pees|id=urinator}}
* {{l|en|pen||pans|id=pans}}
* {{l|en|periodic||relating to the highest oxidation state of iodine|id=iodine}} * {{l|en|prayer||one who prays|id=prays}}
* {{l|en|
* {{l|en|pretender||to tender in advance|id=tender in advance}}
* {{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|spice||spouses|id=spouses}}
* {{l|en|teenage||brushwood|id=brushwood}}
* {{l|en|tired
* {{l|en|undies
* {{l|en|unionize||to deionize|id=deionize}}, {{l|en|unionized||not ionized|id=not ionized}}
* {{l|en|watched
==Silly spellings==
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* Who needs vowel sounds? Not one Bella Coola speaker, because {{m|blc|xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓||he had had in his possession a [[bunchberry]] plant}} {{IPAchar|[xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ]}}.
* an ancient word (attested ~2280 years ago) that looks like an emoji: [[𑀇𑀥]] ("here")
* a Luxembourgish word with 5 e's in a row: {{l|lb|zweeeeëg}}
==Words created in error==
:''see'' [[:Category:Ghost words by language]]▼
==Other silliness==
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