loanword 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. Cupbearer, Parthian tkrpty, loanword in Ar­menian takarāpet (cf

2. Bourgeoisie is a French loanword that means the middle class

3. Bourgeoisie is a loanword from French and functions as a noun

4. Complaisant, a relatively recent loanword from French, means cheerfully obliging or tending to go along with others

5. The word that is borrowed is called a Borrowing, a borrowed word, or a loanword

6. 19 The word - building ways mainly consist of homonym, overlap, metaphor, metonymy, abbreviation, loanword or explaining a word in another way.

7. Amuck is an old alternative spelling of the Malaysian loanword, and it had a few decades of prevalence before the middle 20th century, but it has now fallen out of favor

8. Amuck is an old alternative spelling of the Malaysian loanword, and it had a few decades of prevalence before the middle 20th century, but it has now fallen out of favor.A few usage authorities still recommend the latter spelling, but Amok is preferred in edited

9. It originates from the Yiddish word "bord" and the German "Bart," which both mean "beard." It may also originate from the Polish word "Borta," a loanword from the German "Borte" meaning "braid" or "galloon."

10. As French culture has come under increasing pressure with the widespread availability of English media, the Académie has tried to prevent the anglicisation of the French language. For example, the Académie has recommended, with mixed success, that some loanword s from English (such as walkman and software) be avoided, in favour of words derived from French (baladeur and logiciel, respectively).

11. The word "compassion" entered the English language in the mid-14th century as a loanword from French, derived from the ecclesiastical Latin term Compassionem: com "together" + pati "to suffer." That sense of "together" makes compassion more powerful than pity, and while "sympathy" is the precise Greek cognate of "compassion," its value has declined somewhat after centuries of neglect.