Associations to the word «Loanword»
Noun
Adjective
- Vernacular
- Intelligible
- Breton
- Chinese
- Scotch
- Cyrillic
- Khmer
- Greek
- Spanish
- Alphabetical
- Frankish
- Lithuanian
- Icelandic
- Maltese
- Burmese
- Voiced
- Bengali
- Catalan
- Hungarian
- Native
- Somali
- Everyday
- Semantic
- Tamil
- Thai
- Meaning
- Japanese
- Feminine
- Akin
- Stressed
- Estonian
- Lao
- Foreign
- Dutch
- Vulgar
- Croatian
- Armenian
- Peruvian
- Masculine
- Baltic
- Russian
- Neighboring
- Indigenous
- French
- Adopted
- Kurdish
- Recipient
- Tibetan
- Scots
- Ottoman
- Nominal
Wiktionary
LOANWORD, noun. A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation.
Dictionary definition
LOANWORD, noun. A word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.