When there is cultural borrowing [...] the associated words may be borrowed too. When the early Germanic peoples [...] first learned of wine-culture [...] from their [...] contact with the Romans, it was only natural that they should adopt the Latin words for the strange beverage [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.193

One can almost estimate the rôle which various peoples have played in the development and spread of cultural ideas by taking note of the extent to which their vocabularies have filtered into those of other peoples.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.193