Words that come from Frankish “wadi”

70 words across 20 languages descend from Frankish wadi — including engage, engagement, mortgage, mortgagee, disengagement, mortgagor, engager, reengagement.

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English (28)

French (10)

Old French (5)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Latin (3)

Italian (3)

German (3)

Dutch (2)

Middle French (1)

Indonesian (1)

Czech (1)

Hungarian (1)

Low German (1)

Macedonian (1)

Polish (1)

Romanian (1)

Malay (1)

Middle English (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Medieval Latin (1)