loan word

noun

1. a word adopted, often with some modification of its form, from one language into another

Example Sentences

Each was called by a local name and not by a loan word, a most demonstrable evidence of local origin.

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For example, ingel, meaning boy (it is a Slavic loan-word in Yiddish), has been obliterated by the English word.

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Here, obviously, we have an example of a loan-word in decay.

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Lallapalooza is also probably an Irish loan-word, though it is not Gaelic.

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Line 18 of the passage shoves that aṣammu is a Sumerian loan word.

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