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Dolphin, music (from muse), logic, ethics, physics, mathematics, pharmacy, angel, comedy, drama. The list of Greek loan words that are shared by many European languages goes on and on

Edit: I think almost every word with "ph" in it is from Greek and "th" in languages other than English.




They're asking about Arabic loanwords.


If you add all Latin words with Greek origins, most European languages are really forms of Greek




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