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loan word

noun as in word borrowed from another language

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Example Sentences

Each was called by a local name and not by a loan word, a most demonstrable evidence of local origin.

For example, ingel, meaning boy (it is a Slavic loan-word in Yiddish), has been obliterated by the English word.

Here, obviously, we have an example of a loan-word in decay.

Lallapalooza is also probably an Irish loan-word, though it is not Gaelic.

Line 18 of the passage shoves that aṣammu is a Sumerian loan word.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to loan word, such as: borrowed word, borrowing, calque, imported word, loan translation, and neology.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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