English is described as a language that has borrowed useful words from many other languages over centuries. An unfamiliar origin therefore does not mean a word has only recently entered English. Bungalow supplies the example: it can seem characteristically English while coming from India and the period of the Raj.
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Bungalow and the long history of English borrowing
The Indian origin of bungalow illustrates how borrowed words become familiar parts of English.