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Loanword logo #10101) Borrowed term 2) German linguistic term 3) Linguistic borrowing 4) Loan 5) Word
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Loanword logo #10101) Gallicism
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Loanword logo #21000 A loanword (or loan word or loan-word) is a word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language without translation. It is distinguished from a calque, or loan translation, where a meaning or idiom from another language is translated into existing words or roots of the host language. Examples of loan words in English inc...
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loanword logo #21003(from the article `linguistics`) Languages borrow words freely from one another. Usually this happens when some new object or institution is developed for which the borrowing ... ...is matched by a similar use of Sanskrit words for certain parts of learned vocabulary in some modern Indian languages (Sanskrit being the ... [20 related...
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Loanword logo #22385A word borrowed or adapted from another language.
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loanword logo #20400[n] - a word borrowed from another language
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loanword logo #20974loan noun a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz` is a German word borrowed into modern English
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loanword logo #21199a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
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