Question

Words such as loot, safari, and cartoon are words found in the English language. However, these words are actually from heritage languages. What are these words called?(1 point)
Responses

root words
root words

borrowed words
borrowed words

inherited words
inherited words

original words

Answer 1

borrowed words

(These are loanwords—terms adopted from other languages, e.g., "safari" from Swahili, "cartoon" from Italian/Spanish, "loot" from Hindi/Urdu.)