Re: phonology of borrowed words

From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>

> Amen.  English is particularly full of words borrowed more than once,
> the ultimate example of which is dish/disk/discus/desk/dais, all
> ultimately from Latin DISCUS.
I wonder what cases there have been of English borrowing a word and altering
it, then the language English borrowed from re-borrowing the Anglicized
word? Since I'm re-aquainting myself with Farsi lately, there are cases of
bidirectional word-travel in that language, such as the word for "jewel",
originally _gauhar_ and Arabicized to _jawhar_, even given an Arabic plural:
_jawa:hir_.

~Danny~

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