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1. What English word do we get from the Arabic word 'sharab'?
2. What word do we get from the Hindi 'bangla'?
3. Which word comes from the Persian 'taftah'? Persia is modern-day Iran.
4. What word derives from the Middle Italian 'rigattare'?
5. The word is from China, and is 'si'. What English word comes from it?
6. What word comes from the Carib 'Galibi'?
7. What word do we get from the Germanic 'krappon'?
8. What word descends from the Oscan 'hirpus'?
9. What word does the English language owe to the Latin 'lacertus'?
10. Let's go back to the beginning, to the Indo-European roots of the English language. What word comes from the Indo-European root 'reudh'?
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