Words like fajita, salsa, and pico de gallo 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. “Fajita,” “salsa,” and “pico de gallo” entered English from Spanish, so they are borrowings. Cognates are related words in different languages that share a common origin, while word roots are the basic parts of words.

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