1. ketchup (from Amoy, a sino-tibetan language spoken in Eastern China)
2. anorak (from Inuit, spoken by Eskimos)
3. cola (from Temne, a Niger-Congo language spoken largely in Sierra-Leone)
4. shampoo (from Hindi, the fifth most widely spoken language in the world)
5. ziggurat* (from Akkadian, a long- extinct Babylonian language, that is credited by some to have been the first to use an alphabet)
* possibly not a quotidian (from French, spoken by the French, some Swiss, some Belgians, parts of Africa, you know, French) word for some
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