Indian Loanwords

How true.

All evil Westerners are guilty of these deliberate distortions of Indian history.

Obviously, all Western backpackers are complicit in this evil plot to compress Indian history and, by reducing the size of Indian history textbooks, allow the West to go on seizing more than its fair share of the world's wood pulp resources.

It is clear that we must cancel their visas and send the evil Mlecch back to Gondwanaland where they came from.

I'm pretty sure ananaas for pineapple comes from Portugese- it's the same in dutch. The Oxford Hindi-English dictionary denotes the origin of words in Hindi if known

The name "ananas", and the fruit itself, originates with the Guarani Indians of South America.

Veranda

Here is an image of a map of languages that show the common roots of many of today's languages. Unfortunately, it does not shed any light on "loanwords" (Click thumbnail to enlarge)