loan word in English

noun
1
a word adopted from a foreign language with little or no modification.
Katakana are used for foreign loanwords from languages other than Chinese; most of these come from English.
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1. Credit: License: A Bagnio is a loan word into several languages

2. 19 When a new fruit is first imported, its name is usually also imported as a loan word.

3. Legal English has particularlyacceptation, a lot of archaism especially archaism adverbappeared, loan word adopted, glossary accuracy required, succinct in the use of word.

4. The English loan word Cheongsam, which comes from the Cantonese pronunciation of the original Shanghainese term, is used for the garment when worn by either men or …

5. שֵׁשׁ noun masculine Exodus 26:1 Byssus (loan-word probably from Egyptian šen-suten Reinischap.DHM VOJ viii (1894), 7 Coptic šens, compare Coptic šent, weave; see M'Lean Ency.Bib

6. Adieu is a loan word which has crossed over to the English language, but English speakers tend to say it so that the '-dieu' sounds like 'dew', which is perfectly acceptable in English, but not French.

7. Burglar "one who commits robbery by breaking into a house," 1540s, shortened from Anglo-Latin burglator (late 13c.), earlier burgator, from Medieval Latin burgator "Burglar," from burgare "to break open, commit Burglary," from Latin burgus "fortress, castle," a Germanic loan-word akin to borough.

8. Bowsprit (n.) "large spar projecting forward from the bow of a ship," late 13c., probably from Middle Low German bochspret, from boch "bow of a ship" (see bow (n.2)) + spret "pole" (compare Old English spreot "pole," Dutch spriet "spear;" see sprit).The variation in early forms (including boltsprit, bolesprit, boresprit) suggests a non-native word.French beaupre is a Dutch loan word.