Wanderwort

Typical examples of Wanderwörter are cannabis, sugar,[2] ginger, copper,[1] silver,[3] cumin, mint, wine, and honey, some of which can be traced back to Bronze Age trade.

Tea, with its Eurasian continental variant chai (both have entered English), is an example[1] whose spread occurred relatively late in human history and is therefore fairly well understood: tea is from Hokkien 茶 tê, specifically Amoy dialect, from the Fujianese port of Xiamen, hence maritime; while 茶 chá (whence chai)[4] is used in Cantonese and Mandarin.

Farang, a term derived from the ethnonym Frank through Arabic and Persian, refers to (typically white, European) foreigners.

Orange originated in a Dravidian language (likely Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam), and whose likely path to English included, in order, Sanskrit, Persian, possibly Armenian, Arabic, Italian, and Old French.

The words for 'horse' across many Eurasian languages seem to be related such as Mongolian морь (mor), Manchu ᠮᠣᡵᡳᠨ (morin), Korean 말 (mal), Japanese 馬 (uma), and Thai ม้า (máː), as well as Sino-Tibetan languages leading to Mandarin 馬 (mǎ), and Tibetan རྨང (rmang).