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Preferred term

loanword  

Type

  • Microstructure feature

  • owl:NamedIndividual

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Entry terms

  • borrowing
  • foreignism
  • loan-word

Description

  • a word-formation process in which a word or phrase is transferred from one language to another; a word or phrase from one language taken into another language and naturalized; also called loanword (e.g. goulash, into English from Hungarian ‘gulyás-hús’); see also calque.
  • a word or phrase that has been borrowed into a language and has not been fully assimilated into the vocabulary; also called borrowing.
  • word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language

In other languages

  • Fjala e huazuar

    Albanian

  • mailegu

    Basque

  • запазычаныя словы

    Belarusian

  • Чужди думи

    Bulgarian

  • manlleu

    Catalan

  • préstec
  • Posuđenice

    Croatian

  • Přejímání slov

    Czech

  • låneord

    Danish

  • fremmedord
  • leenwoord

    Dutch

  • laensõna

    Estonian

  • sõnalaen
  • lainasana

    Finnish

  • emprunt lexical

    French

  • Préstamo

    Galician

  • Lehnwort

    German

  • Entlehnung
  • Fremdwort
  • δάνειο

    Greek

  • שאילת מילים

    Hebrew

  • jövevényszó

    Hungarian

  • tökuorð

    Icelandic

  • Focal iasachta

    Irish

  • prestito linguistico

    Italian

  • prestito lessicale
  • aizguvums

    Latvian

  • skolinys

    Lithuanian

  • lånord

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • Lånord

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • zapożyczenie

    Polish

  • pożyczka
  • empréstimo lingüístico

    Portuguese

  • împrumut

    Romanian

  • cuvânt de împrumut
  • cuvânt împrumutat
  • neologism
  • заимствование

    Russian

  • заимствованное слово
  • позајмљеница

    Serbian

  • позајмљена реч
  • prevzeta beseda

    Slovenian

  • izposojenka
  • sposojenka
  • calco

    Spanish

  • prestamo
  • lånord

    Swedish

  • мовне запозичення

    Ukrainian

URI

http://w3id.org/meta-share/lexmeta/loanword

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