English borrowed the name yogurt from Turkish yoğurt. Familiar foods often travel with names attached, and the English spelling adapts a sound and letter combination from the source language.
yogurt
A food made by fermenting milk.
Yogurt came from Turkish.
How yogurt reached English
oldest firstTurkish
yoğurt
‘Yogurt’
into English
English
yogurt
‘The fermented milk food’
The story of yogurt
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The spelling variants yogurt and yoghurt show different ways English represents a borrowing.