[dmoy]

> European

It's not restricted to European languages. 贝果 is bagel, just sounded out phonetically, and 三明治 is sandwich.

Idk if there's anything super odd about it.

Of course, English is the worst offender of loan words. As someone else said somewhere, "[English doesn't] just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

Gung ho, monsoon, filibuster, herbivore, vacation, etc etc etc. Thousands upon thousands of loanwords.

[dionian]

Fun fact, 99% of words ending in -tion are the exact same in French. Every English speaker has a head start of hundreds of word vocabulary in French.

[stragies]

Those words also exist in Spanish, there the ending is "cion", and in Portuguese with ending "cão"

[ElevenLathe]

And in Polish: -cja. Lots of languages have had a deep relationship with Latin, not just Romance languages.