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Definition of Loanword

1. Noun. A word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English.

Definition of Loanword

1. Noun. A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Loanword

1. a word taken from another language [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loanword

Literary usage of Loanword

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Etymology: A Select Glossary Serving as an Introduction to the by Friedrich Kluge, Frederick Lutz (1898)
"corslet corselet: a loanword fr. FR. corselet, dimin. of OFR. cors with suffix -et. cost vb. ME. coste: borrowed fr. OFR. coster (= FR. couter, ..."

2. A Critical Commentary on the Book of Daniel: Designed Especially for by John Dyneley Prince (1899)
"It is probably a Persian loanword, perhaps from the Old Persian ni- baj-va "gift"8. Bar and Ginsburg point it xatas in v. ..."

3. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"This brief article on " Finno-Slavic relations" treats of old traces of the Karelians, a Finnish loanword in Slavonic (Polish ..."

4. Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A Contribution to the by George Tobias Flom (1900)
"The distribution of a word in South England diall., or in OF, OS or MLG, indicates that the word is not a Scand. loanword. 8. On the other hand, ..."

5. The Language of the Northumbrian Gloss to the Gospel of Saint Matthew: Pt. I by Emily Howard Foley (1903)
"25. For the e in felle(read) 27. 28 v. F. p. 25. loanword ... loanword : oele 25. 3, 4. III. Umlaut of u. The i-umlaut of u is у ; i and ui occur in a few ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1903)
"... is probably a NE loanword from the same stem as Natick kinuk- ... is a-very interesting survival of a New England loanword, /'. e., ..."

7. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"... or the loanword cygnus from ... Another instance of Greek x" appearing in Latin as « with long vowel is the (loanword ? ..."

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