Food & drink
sugar
Source:śarkarāSanskrit · “grit, sugar”probable
Three routes for one word: Greek to Russian, German to Polish, Czech and Ukrainian, Turkish to BCS.
English
sugar
Polish
cukier
ˈtsukʲɛrCognateSame source — the sound laws connect them.
In all five languages
BCS script
- Russianса́харsaxarˈsaxərborrowed · Byzantine Greek sákcharon
- Ukrainianцу́корcukorˈtsukɔrborrowed · Polish cukier (from German Zucker)
- Polishcukierˈtsukʲɛrborrowed · German Zucker
- Czechcukrˈtsukr̩borrowed · German Zucker
- Bosnian-Croatian-Serbianšećerшећерˈʃetɕerborrowed · Turkish şeker (from Persian)
- Englishsugar
English shares this source — English sugar comes from the same Sanskrit word via Arabic sukkar.