loanword

or loan word

[ lohn-wurd ]

noun
  1. a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.

Origin of loanword

1
1870–75; translation of German Lehnwort

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How to use loanword in a sentence

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

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

    The American Language | Henry L. Mencken
  • Here, obviously, we have an example of a loan-word in decay.

    The American Language | Henry L. Mencken
  • Lallapalooza is also probably an Irish loan-word, though it is not Gaelic.

    The American Language | Henry L. Mencken
  • Line 18 of the passage shoves that aṣammu is a Sumerian loan word.

British Dictionary definitions for loan word

loan word

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

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