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
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.