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loanword

noun
/ˈloʊnˌwɝd/CA/ˈləʊnˌwɜː(ɹ)d/UK

Etymology

A calque of German Lehnwort, equivalent to loan + word. Compare West Frisian lienwurd, Dutch leenwoord, Danish låneord, Swedish lånord, Icelandic lánsorð.

  1. calqued from Lehnwort

Definitions

  1. A word directly taken into one language from another one.

    • "Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins.
    • This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for loanword. 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