English Word Etymologies - Statistics

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Root	Etymology	Meaning	Word	% Correct
? + Mare	German: Evil female spirit who sits on your chest, suffocating you	Bad dreams	Nightmare	88%
Palantine Hill	Emperor’s residence on this hill of Rome	An opulent residence for a ruler	Palace	88%
Kē-chiap	Chinese Amoy sauce of pickled fish and spices. The recipe changed as it moved around the worldi	Spicy sauce made chiefly from tomatoes and vinegar	Ketchup	87%
Medieval Italian: ‘Bad air’	Infectious fever believed to be caused by the bad air around swamps	Disease carried by parasite transmitted by mosquitoes	Malaria	80%
Italian ‘forty days’	During the Black Death ships were put into isolation on islands offshore for this period to attempt to halt the disease	Isolation to prevent potential health risks to others	Quarantine	77%
4th Earl of ?	Playing cards, this Earl requested a slice of meat between two slices of bread so that the cards wouldn’t get greasy while he ate	Filling between two slices of bread	Sandwich	75%
Ostrakon	Ancient Greek: shard of broken pottery used for closed ballot regarding potential exile of someone thought to be becoming too powerful for democracy to thrive	Exclude from a society or group	Ostracise	70%
John Duns Scotus	Philosopher and theologian who died before the Reformation, when his followers were ridiculed for adhering to his teachings	Someone who can’t learn.	Dunce	65%
Admiral’s grogham cloak	Admiral Vernon’s nickname came from this cloak. He decreed that all his sailors should have rum every day, so the drink also got this nickname, as did its effect	Weak and unsteady, unable to think clearly	Groggy	53%
Björn serkr	Old Norse ‘bear coat’.	One who fights with uncontrolled ferocity	Berserker	52%
Latin: ‘three roads’	Place where people would hang around for idle chat	Unimportant information	Trivia	48%
Greek: ‘ball of yarn’	Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of yarn to help him find his way out of the labyrinth	Something that points the way to solving a problem	Clue	39%
Latin: ‘knee’	Roman father would hold a newborn child on his knee to confirm paternity	Authentic, truly what it is said to be	Genuine	35%
French: ‘Genoa’	French word for the town where a twill fabric was invented. A coarser version was made in Nimes	Heavy cotton twirled material	Jean	29%
Al-zahr	13th century Arabic for the dice used for gambling. Crusaders brought the games home	Danger; risk; chance	Hazard	28%

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