by contact with nearby peoples, basque has borrowed words from latin, spanish, french, gascon and others but accepted fewer than indo-european languages. some claim that many of its words come from latin, but phonetic evolution has made many of them now appear as if they were native words, e.g. "lore" ("flower", from "florem"), "errota" ("mill", from "rotam", "[mill] wheel"), "gela" ("room", from "cellam").