Wanderwort
A Wanderwort (plural Wanderwörter; German for "wandering word") is a word that has spread as a loanword among numerous languages and cultures, usually in connection with trade. At a sufficient time depth, it can be very difficult to establish in which language or language family it originated and in which it was borrowed.
Examples
Typical examples of wanderwörter are sugar,ginger, copper,silver,cumin, mint, and wine, some of which can be traced back to Bronze Age trade.
Tea, with its maritime variant tea and Eurasian continental variant chai (both variants have entered English), is an example whose spread occurred very late in history and is therefore fairly well understood: tea is from Hokkien, specifically Amoy, from the Fujianese port of Xiamen, hence maritime, while cha (whence chai) is used in Cantonese and Mandarin. See etymology of tea for further details.
Another example is orange, which originated in a Dravidian language (likely Telugu or Malayalam), and whose likely path to English included, in order, Sanskrit, Persian, possibly Armenian, Arabic, Late Latin, Italian, and Old French. See Orange: etymology for further details.
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by: UnterartI cut my name in your heart,
to assure, the memories remain.
I never will release the pain.
I cut my name in your heart,
and I know, you never will forget.
My love will be your deepest bleeding scar.
I cut my name, I cut it deep.
I take my time.
I come when you're asleep.
I'm leaving you in red and
bloodstained sheets.
I cut my name in your heart
with a knife
the sharpest I can get
as cruel as you have left my broken
heart.
I cut my name in your heart,
I want you to feel my pain.
I cut my name in your heart,
I can't live without your love.
I wanna drown in your blood.
I cut my name right in your heart,
I can live with your pain,
but I can't live, I can't live without your love.
I cut my name in your heart
with my fingernails.
I hurt what still remains.
You never will forget, forget my
name.
I cut the letters, bit by bit,
and in the end
you certainly admit,
a whisper of disease lies on your
lips.
I cut my name in your heart,
I want you to feel my pain.
I cut my name in your heart,
I can't live without your love.
I wanna drown in your blood,
I cut my name right in your heart.
I can live with your pain,
but I can't live, I can't live without your love.
Though I know it's not real,
what I want you to feel is more than unreal.
But still I want you to feel.
I cut my name in your heart,
I want you to feel my pain.
I cut my name in your heart,
I can't live without your love.
I wanna drown in your blood.
I cut my name right in your heart,
I can live with your pain,
but I can't live, I can't live without your love.
I can't live without your love.
I cut my name in your heart.
I cut my name in your heart.