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loanword
Sash is an Arabic loanword that was introduced into the English language in 1590.
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Meanwhile, the word taekwondo itself has been adopted into English as a loanword.
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It was created to replace Ottoman Turkish mektep, an old loanword from Arabic.
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The name is a loanword from Wiradjuriguuguubarra, and is onomatopoeic of its call.
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In stead enoot, a loanword derived from the English naught is generally used.
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Terroir is often italicized in English writing to show that it is a French loanword.
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The term, in this later sense, entered the English language as a loanword.
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The latter is considered to be an early Lithuanian loanword from Germanic origin, cf.
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In many of these cases, the loanword has functionally become a noun rather than a gerund.
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- A word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
- A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation
- A word adopted from another language and completely or partially naturalized. See also: calque, Wanderwort.
- [morphology,lexicology] Any word which can be shown to have been imported from one language into another, that is which does not represent an historical continuation of an earlier form (although loan-words may be related at a greater time depth). ...
