Meaning of loanword | Babel Free
ˈloʊnˌwɝdEquivalents
Azərbaycanca
alınma
Български
чуждица
Català
manlleu
Čeština
přejaté slovo
Ελληνικά
δάνειο
Español
préstamo lingüístico
Suomi
lainasana
Français
emprunt
Magyar
jövevényszó
Հայերեն
փոխառություն
Íslenska
tökuorð
ខ្មែរ
ពាក្យកម្ចី
Македонски
заемка
Bahasa Melayu
kata pinjaman
Nederlands
leenwoord
Svenska
lånord
ไทย
คำยืม
Tagalog
salitang hiram
Українська
запозичення
Yorùbá
ọrọ-ayalo
Examples
“"Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins.”
“New words, and particularly loanwords, are simplified, and hence naturalized in American much more quickly than in English. Employé has long since become employee in our newspapers, and asphalte has lost its final e, and manœuvre has become maneuver, and pyjamas has become pajamas.”
“This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.”
“Indeed, in 1957 Xenophon Zolotas, the then governor of the Bank of Greece, gave two speeches to the IMF that contained just Greek loanwords apart from the inevitable basic English. (Example: “Our policies should be based more on economic and less on political criteria.”)”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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