User:Stelio/Lexical List of Lovely Loanwords

The challenge: Come up with a list of 26 loanwords in English, one for every letter of the alphabet, A to Z.
 * Each word must come from a different language.
 * On the Wiktionary entry for the English word, the source language is the one the word is immediately taken from. So counts as a loanword from Middle French, not the earlier Latin or even earlier Ancient Greek.
 * Different flavours of a language all count as the same language, so each of Old Latin, Classical Latin, Vulgar Latin count as Latin. But Italian is different to Latin.
 * Each word must come from a different country.
 * You can only use Spanish and Arabic once each, even though they are spoken in many countries.
 * You can only use India and USA once each, even though they both host multiple languages.
 * You could use Italy for Italian or Latin, but not both. But you could use Italy for Italian and additionally use the Vatican for a loanword specifically from Ecclesiastical Latin.
 * They must all be direct loanwords into modern English.
 * For example you can't use because that came from Old French into Middle English. That's considered part of the modern English corpus already rather than a loanword.


 * Easy mode: allow any English lemmata.
 * Normal mode: exclude any proper nouns and word parts (prefixes, suffixes, etc.).
 * Hard mode: also exclude terms for creatures and food/drink.

Set yourself whatever additional constraints you would like. For example, I deemed common words to be preferable to obscure words. And I didn't just trawl through Wiktionary's categories, as that wouldn't have made it an interesting challenge.

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Stelio
Oi, no peeking at my answers! Genuinely, try coming up with your own list first. If you look at someone else's answers then it will spoil the challenge completely for you. Spoilers inside...  