Associations to the word «Loanword»
Noun
Adjective
- Vernacular
- Intelligible
- Breton
- Chinese
- Scotch
- Cyrillic
- Khmer
- Greek
- Spanish
- Alphabetical
- Frankish
- Lithuanian
- Icelandic
- Maltese
- Burmese
- Voiced
- Bengali
- Catalan
- Hungarian
- Native
- Somali
- Everyday
- Semantic
- Tamil
- Thai
- Meaning
- Japanese
- Feminine
- Akin
- Stressed
- Estonian
- Lao
- Foreign
- Dutch
- Vulgar
- Croatian
- Armenian
- Peruvian
- Masculine
- Baltic
- Russian
- Neighboring
- Indigenous
- French
- Adopted
- Kurdish
- Recipient
- Tibetan
- Scots
- Ottoman
- Nominal
Wiktionary
LOANWORD, noun. A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation.
Dictionary definition
LOANWORD, noun. A word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English.
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.