Words like taco, burrito, and quesadilla appear on menus in the United States, but they were not originally English words. These are examples of .

Words adopted from another language and used in English are called borrowings. “Taco,” “burrito,” and “quesadilla” came into English from Spanish, so they are borrowings; cognates are related words in different languages, and word roots are the basic parts from which words are formed.

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