loanword
Americannoun
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loanwords
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Etymology
Origin of loanword
1870–75; translation of German Lehnwort
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The sheer clip at which English words rotate in and out of the vernacular has made it difficult for any statistic to accurately capture the scale of loanword creep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
Deciding whether to use the Anglicized or loanword pronunciations can be fraught for bilingual performers.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2021
Local journalists describe the scenes here as the local telenovela, a Spanish loanword meaning soap opera.
From Time ● Oct. 27, 2017
Sadly, these words failed to stick, and nowadays one is forced to answer wrong numbers on a loanword: tilifun.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
The presence of a word in O. E. excludes Scand. influence, except in cases where the O. E. word has been shown to be a loanword.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
“We can’t rework loanwords as soon as they appear — we have to observe for a bit until it’s clear that it’s being used widely, after which we can step in,” Kim said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
During World War I, “hamburger steak” became “Salisbury steak,” part of an effort to curb the use of German loanwords, according to H.L.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
In contrast, software should have a much easier time representing loanwords.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2021
As for the rest of the vocabulary, about half comes from Italian, with English and French loanwords.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
The larger number of loanwords in Wall's "List A" seem to me to be Danish.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
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