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From: enedervo@adobe.com (Eric Nedervold)
Subject: Re: reverse borrowing
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 21:53:18 GMT
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In article: <dasherDLs438.9o5@netcom.com>  dasher@netcom.com (Anton 
Sherwood) writes:
> I've been looking for examples of reverse borrowing:
> a word formed from roots of language A, but coined in language B
> and later borrowed into A.

A longer route is the word for zero:

'sunya'	  Sanskrit "void"  -->
'sifr'    Arabic   "empty" -->
'zefiro'  Italian          -->
'zero'    English          -->
and back to the Indian subcontinent (where Sanskrit is no longer quite
as popular) as 'ziro' or 'jiro', supplanting the still extant 'sunya'.

--Eric
 
