Meaning of reborrowing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A word that passed from language A into language B and thence back into language A. Such words may have changed in meaning and/or form.
2. Something reborrowed.

Equivalents

Examples

“The word flan itself is a relatively recent addition to English, adopted on our behalf from French by the chef Alexis Soyer (a Frenchman working in England), but in that form⟳ it is in fact simply a reborrowing of a word which originally crossed the Channel in the 13th century as flawn, denoting some sort⟳ of custard tart or cheesecake.”

“The borrower will usually argue⟳ that the accordion should be considered as a reborrowing of debt already repaid, and therefore should be a redraw of tranche A first.”

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