>Hi there.
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>In a book that I'm reading in order to improve my English, there are some info about how the idiom has been created and also about its evolution, aggregating words from other languages, like French, German, Italian and Portuguese. Does anybody know some samples of English words that have actually came from Portuguese? :)

Hi Claudio,

To name a few:

bungalow, cobra, jaguar, lacquer, marmalade, molasses, savvy
Source:
http://www.m-w.com/textonly/wftw/97june/61097.htm

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Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil, Angola and Mozambique)

albino (white), Bossa Nova (Brazilian dance), breeze (light wind), cabin, caste, cobra (hood), Creole, dodo (fool - from the silly appearance of the bird), embarrass, emu, fetish, flamingo, Lambada (Brazilian dance), marmalade, massage (dough - because dough is kneaded), molasses, palaver (word), port (a drink named after its town of origin)
Source:
http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html

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jaguar (from Spanish and Portuguese, originally from Guarani yaguar)
banana (word, originally of African origin, entered English via either Spanish or Portuguese)
negro (comes from either the Spanish or Portuguese word for the color black)
Source: http://spanish.about.com/library/weekly/aa071700a.htm

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palaver
Palaver means “talk, or words”. It can mean unnecessary, profuse or idle talk (as in “all that palaver) or it can mean jargon (as in “the palaver of the investment business”). It appears to have come into English from Portuguese. The origin may have been a Latin word (parabola) meaning a story or tale (from which we get the English word “parable”). In Portuguese this became palavra and came to mean “word, speech, or talk”. It appears to have been used by Portuguese traders on the coast of Africa for a talk, or conference, or discussion, with the natives and to have passed from nautical slang into colloquial use – and to have been picked by British sailors who took the word back home. The earliest recorded use in English 1737.

Source http://www.abc.net.au/classic/breakfast/stories/s614842.htm