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  2. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    The word calque is a loanword, while the word loanword is a calque: calque comes from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close copy"); [5] while the word loanword and the phrase loan translation are translated from German nouns Lehnwort [6] and Lehnübersetzung (German: [ˈleːnʔybɐˌzɛt͡sʊŋ] ⓘ). [7]

  3. Borrow - Wikipedia

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    Borrow or borrowing can mean: to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. In finance, monetary debt; In linguistics, change in a language due to contact with other languages; In arithmetic, when a digit becomes less than zero and the deficiency is taken from the next digit to the left; In music, the use of borrowed ...

  4. English words without vowels - Wikipedia

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    Thus words borrowed from Welsh may use w this way, such as: The crwth [6] (pronounced /ˈkrʊθ/ or /ˈkruːθ/, also spelled cruth in English) is a Welsh musical instrument similar to the violin. [7] He intricately rhymes, to the music of crwth and pibgorn. [8]

  5. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    A loanword is a word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language without translation. It is distinguished from a calque, or loan translation, where a meaning or idiom from another language is translated into existing words or roots of the host language.

  6. Hyperforeignism - Wikipedia

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    Hyperforeignisms can manifest in a number of ways, including the application of the spelling or pronunciation rules of one language to a word borrowed from another; [4] an incorrect application of a language's pronunciation; and pronouncing loanwords as though they were borrowed more recently, ignoring an already established naturalized ...

  7. List of English words of Yiddish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).

  8. List of English words of Old English origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).

  9. Borrowing (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, borrowing is a type of language change in which a language or dialect undergoes change as a result of contact with another language or dialect. In typical cases of borrowing, speakers of one language (the "recipient" language) adopt into their own speech a novel linguistic feature that they were exposed to due to its presence in a different language (the "source" or "donor ...