Blighty

Origin: Corruption of the विलायती / foreign, which is related to Arabic state, province, whence also, through Turkish, vilayet. Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell explained in their Anglo-Indian dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, published in 1886, that the word was used in the names of several kinds of exotic foreign things, especially those that the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato, विलायती बैंगन, and especially to soda water, which was commonly called विलायती पानी. Blighty was the inevitable British soldier’s corruption of it. But it only came into common use as a term for Brit. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).