Learning about words and phrases that we commonly use in English that originate from Latin has gotten me interested in learning more words or phrases that English "steals" from other languages. When a pirate steals something, the object(s) they steal is reffered to as their "loot." The word loot is a seemingly pure-English word; however, its root comes from the Hindi word "lut" meaning an item stolen during a war or riot.
A common theme in American Horror movies is possessions and poltergeists. Poltergeist is a word we use in english to refer to a supernatural spirit, which is usually negative, that reveals itself by creating disturbances in the natural world. The word itself is derived from two German words, poltern meaning to make noise and geist meaning ghost.
Words that are very commonly used in popular video games like juggernaut, assassin, and glitch are also taken from other languages. Juggernaut is orignally derived from the Sanskrit langauge, assassin is derived from the arabic language, and glitch is derived from both Yiddish and German from a word meaning to slip or slide in both languages.
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