Assorted Words in English
Breton
- dolmen – from taol, "table" + maen, "stone"
- menhir – from maen, "stone" + hir, "long"
Danish
- kilt – from kilta, "clothing fold"
- maelstrom – from male, "to whirl" + strøm, "stream"
- midden – from mög, "muck" + dynge, "dung"
- walrus – from hvalros, "horse-whale"
- wicker – from vika, "bending branch"
Dharuk
- koala – from gula, for the animal
Eora
- wallaby – from the name for the animal
- wombat – from the name for the animal
Finnish
- sauna – for the traditional bath and bathhouse
Guugu Yimidhirr
- kangaroo – from gangurru, "grey kangaroo"
Malay
- agar – from agar-agar, "jelly"
- boondocks – from bundok, "distant mountains"
- compound (buildings) – from kampung, "village"
- orangutan – from orang hutan, "people of the jungle"
- paddy (field) – from padi, "rice field"
- sarong – from sarung, "wrap, sheath"
Malayalam
- atoll – from atolu, "reef"
Maori
- kiwi – of imitative origin
Romanian
- pastrami – from păstra, "preserve, cure"
Telugu
- bandicoot – from pandikoku, for the animal
- mongoose – from mungeesa, for the animal
Wiradjuri
- billabong – from bilabaŋ, for the body of water
- kookaburra – from guuguubarra, onomatopoeic of its call