Meaning

1 senses
  1. A word directly taken into one language from another one.

    "Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins.

    Lehnwort, Fremdwort

    заи́мствованиеzaímstvovanije, заи́мствованное сло́воzaímstvovannoje slóvo

    запози́ченняzapozýčennja

    a word borrowed from another language; e.g. ‘blitz’ is a German word borrowed into modern English

Examples

14 sentences
  1. There probably isn't a language without loanwords.

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  2. There is not a language without some loanwords.

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  3. "Calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque.

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  4. There is not a language which doesn't have some loanwords.

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  5. Loanwords don't corrupt a language; they merely change it.

    deFremdwörter verderben eine Sprache nicht, sondern verändern sie lediglich.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

A calque of German Lehnwort, equivalent to loan + word. Compare West Frisian lienwurd, Dut

A calque of German Lehnwort, equivalent to loan + word. Compare West Frisian lienwurd, Dutch leenwoord, Danish låneord, Swedish lånord, Icelandic lánsorð.

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Forms

plural: loanwords

Synonyms

4 synonyms
borrowinggainwordforeign word
Close in meaning
  • a word borrowed from another language; e.g. ‘blitz’ is a German word borrowed into modern English:loan

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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