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gainword

noun

Etymology

From gain + word.

  1. inherited from *werdʰh₁om✻ — “word”
  2. inherited from *wurdą✻ — “word”
  3. inherited from *word✻
  4. inherited from word
  5. inherited from word
  6. compounded as gainword — “gain + word”

Definitions

  1. A word that a language has borrowed from other languages. In the process, the spelling…

    A word that a language has borrowed from other languages. In the process, the spelling and pronunciation, and even meaning, may be altered.

    • Words comprising a gainword + Maori suffix are entered as run-ons in alphabetical order where there is a root gainword as headword.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gainword. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA