Across
- 1. a warm, fruity color- originates from the fruit, and comes from the Sanskrit word "naranga", which refers to the orange tree or its fruit- started being used/spelled in Modern English
- 4. a person who kills animals and sell their meat- the Old French word bochier means "slaughterer of goats"- started using "butcher" in Old English
- 6. expressing happiness by laughing- from Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" when he has a character chortle in joy- from the English language
- 8. a wealthy, powerful person- the Japanese root word taikun that means "great lord"- Modern English started using the word
- 9. a true statement- the Latin verb factus, which means "done"- started to be used in English
- 10. a ball of thread or yarn- a ball of yarn helped Greek mythology's Theseus kill the Minotaur- started in Middle and Old English
Down
- 2. an automatically operated machine- Karel Capek needed a name for the characters in his play who were mechanical machines and go on adventures, so his brother came up with the name robota- English had started using the word robot decades later
- 3. when the ships arrived in Venice, people had to spend forty days in port to see if they had any possible cases of the plague, and in Italy, forty days is quaranta giorni- English started using the word "quarantine"
- 5. the soap used for hair- came from a conjugation of the Hindi verb campna or champna which means to press of knead muscles- the word was exported to England
- 7. life that happens at night- from a story called The Ambiguities with a character named Pierre who is looking for a cab at night- started in English