WOLD - Word: cockroach

Loanword Information
Borrowed status:	1. clearly borrowed
Comments:	Spelling indicates the effects of a folk etymology
Source words:	cucaracha 'the cockroach', from Spanish
Effect:	Insertion
Salience:	Present in pre-contact environment
Other comments:	The English form has been remodelled in order to give a specious analysability.
Contact situation:	Spanish contact Spanish contact Spanish influence on English begins in the early modern period, as does influence from Portuguese.

cockroach

a word from Vocabulary English