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Etymology

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Acalque ofGermanLehnwort, equivalent toloan +‎word. CompareWest Frisianlienwurd,Dutchleenwoord,Danishlåneord,Swedishlånord,Icelandiclánsorð.

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Noun

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loanword (pluralloanwords)

  1. Aword directly taken into onelanguage from another one.
    "Calque" is aloanword with French origins, and"loanword" is a calque with German origins.
    • [1921 [1919],H. L. Mencken, chapter32, inThe American Language, 2nd edition, New York:Alfred A. Knopf,→ISBN,→OCLC:
      New words, and particularlyloanwords, are simplified, and hence naturalized in American much more quickly than in English.Employé has long since becomeemployee in our newspapers, andasphalte has lost its finale, andmanœuvre has becomemaneuver, andpyjamas has becomepajamas.]
    • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, inWorld Englishes, volume37, page251:
      This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used forloanwords from Indian languages.
    • 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, inCNN‎[1]:
      Indeed, in 1957 Xenophon Zolotas, the then governor of the Bank of Greece, gave two speeches to the IMF that contained just Greekloanwords apart from the inevitable basic English. (Example: “Our policies should be based more on economic and less on political criteria.”)

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word taken from another language

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Trivia

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  • While the termloanword is a calque from German, the termcalque is a loanword from French.

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