Associations to the word «Loanword»
Noun
Adjective
- Incorporating
- Welsh
- Inherited
- Bulgarian
- Modern
- Bilingual
- Imported
- Classical
- Proper
- German
- Romanian
- Korean
- Recent
- Czech
- Restricted
- Absorbed
- Slovak
- Adapted
- Variant
- Sound
- Numerous
- Swedish
- Standard
- Distinctive
- Saxon
- Unrelated
- Serbian
- Root
- Retained
- Rare
- Distinct
- Literary
- Polish
- Corresponding
- Preceding
- Acute
- Common
- Italian
- 19th
- European
- Incorporated
- Islamic
- Used
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
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.