loanword

How To Use loanword In A Sentence

• So it's a surprise to find that some languages have few loanwords.
• Katakana are used for foreign loanwords from languages other than Chinese; most of these come from English.
• In fact, I'm starting to get the strong notion that the real reason why some Indoeuropeanists like Julius Pokorny had included Sanskrit kapr̥t- 'penis' into his cognate series under the 'goat' etymon was just to make it look less like a substratal loanword restricted to Western Europe and more like a fully attested IE root in order to fill out his 1959 book Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. Archive 2010-09-01
• In some cases, the Southern Amerind loanwords acquired by English through the filter of Spanish, Portuguese, French, and New Latin had already passed through another language. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
• The Japanese title of this manga uses the English loanword "maid" and the Japanese word Senki, meaning the record of a military campaign. Undefined
• Similarly, Eskimo Jargon has kaukau ‘food’, itself a loanword in Hawaiian, introduced from Chinese Pidgin English chowchow.
• Romance and Spanish have been filled with Arabic loanwords, be they chemical, culinary, agricultural, technological, social or scientific.
• In the majority of the most-spoken languages today, stress has become a loanword that readily captures particular experiences of the nerve-rattling kind, those common to people who inhabit the faster-paced millennial world—and who have identified the key source of their problems as their unsettling experience of that world. The English Is Coming!
• Only those the splendidly self-confident British upper classes would deign to deliberately and with self-ease not italicise a French loanword; in doing so, I was in fact expressing my position as not being of such social elevation. Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars
• Secondly, we see the impact of the language contact between Irish and English and the use of several English loanwords, which have been successfully adapted to Irish spelling and pronunciation.