loan word

Noun

Meaning

loan word (plural loan words)

Alternative spelling of loanword.

Alternative names

loan-word

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Examples

Agricultural History 35: 35 46. However, as a loan word in English, cedar had become fixed to its biblical sense of Cedrus by the time of its first recorded usage in AD 1000. Source: Internet

At present, the main source of new loanwords is English e.g. rapper, e-mail, catering, juice, bag (originally a loan word to English from Old Norse). Source: Internet

Svennung considers the Sami name to have been introduced as a loan word from the North Germanic languages ; Svennung, J. (1963). Source: Internet

So apostrophe followed by s was often used to mark a plural, especially when the noun was a loan word (and especially a word ending in a, as in the two comma’s). Source: Internet

The Greek word, στίμμι stimmi, is probably a loan word from Arabic or from Egyptian stm O34:D46-G17-F21:D4 and is used by Attic tragic poets of the 5th century BC. Source: Internet

The theory linking the ethnoym to the verb 'to speak' was advanced by Hahn who suggested it was perhaps a Latin loan word from excipio. Source: Internet

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