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LOANWORD
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
LOANWORD, also loan-word , loan word. A WORD taken into one language from another...garage and Lehnwort itself (which has for general purposes been converted to loanword ). A Lehnwort proper is a word that has become indistinguishable from the...
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BISOCIATION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...being native to that language (such as everyday English sight ), the other being a loanword from an influential foreign source (such as vision , a loanword from Latin). In English, the vernacular members of such pairs are mainly Germanic...
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LOAN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...item of language given, as if by a lender, from one language to another, used both on its own and in such combinations as LOANWORD , LOAN TRANSLATION , LOAN BLEND , and loanshift . The commonest loans are single words: pizza (from Italian to English...
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BORROWING
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...borrowed is not returned, because it never left the source language and in any case changes in the transfer. Compare LOAN , LOANWORD . Patterns of borrowing Any language, under appropriate circumstances, borrows lexical material from other languages, usually...
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Picnic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...event. In 1862, "picnic" was translated as shokuji (meal), and in the twentieth century, the Japanese adopted the loanword pikunikku . Food Writers on Picnics Cookbooks are excellent resources for picnic menus and recollections. Je
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Komi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Zirjan(in)," spread into the languages of the world via scholarly literature. The Russian word is itself an Ob-Ugric loanword (Vogul, saran; Ostyak, sar ă n ) which in turn is possibly of Iranian origin (from Ancient Iranian, zraya...
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Soslovie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...disprivileged. Amalgamation was first apparent in collective terms for the privileged nobility, initially as shlyakhetstvo (a Polish loanword) and by mid-century as dvoryanstvo, the modern term. From the 1760s, chiefly in an effort to transplant West European...
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NONCE WORD
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...not easy to exemplify them. Recent occurrences, however, have included the verb to perestroik , formed from the Russian loanword perestroika , as if it were ‘perestroiker’ (one who perestroiks), and the noun Excaliburger , for...
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Gael
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...those who adhere(d) to the Irish language and native culture. The word appears originally as Goídel and is a loanword from Welsh Gwyddel, ‘Irishman’, which itself has a pejorative meaning (Welsh gwydd , ‘wild...
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ATTRIBUTIVE NOUN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...commíttee POLicy decísion ). Such phrases are numerous and unpredictably creative, especially when they incorporate one or more loanword: alfresco staircase , glissando laugh , goy Zionist , Uzbek mafia . See EPONYM .
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