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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
...everyday English sight ), the other being a loanword from an influential foreign source (such as vision , a loanword from Latin). In English, the vernacular...Old English or Old Norse), while the loanwords are mainly classical (usually from Latin...
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Chipaya
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Chipaya language consists of up to 20 percent loanwords from Aymara and/or Quechua, as well as loanwords from Spanish. History and Cultural Relations...Chipaya settlement, and there are some loanwords from Quechua that are not cognate with...
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Kyrgyzstan
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...intelligible with both Kazak and Uzbek. Northern pronunciation varies from southern and has more Russian loanwords. Many Uzbek loanwords are used in the south. Kyrgyz was originally written in Arabic script, but Soviet policy changed its alphabet...
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SPANGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...mixtures of SPANISH and English, ranging from extensive uses of LOANWORDS and LOAN TRANSLATIONS to CODE-SWITCHING among bilinguals...refers broadly to non-standard Spanish which contains: (1) Loanwords from English, such as wachar to watch, pushar to push...
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GAIRAIGO
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...expressions they derive. Non-Japanese may also fail to recognize LOANWORDS because of adaptations in pronunciation, meaning, and...as long a , as in hanbāgā hamburger. Loanwords may undergo semantic as well as phonetic change, as with...
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JEWISH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...the immigrant generations. Grammar (1) Yiddish and Hebrew LOANWORDS are integrated into English in four ways: by dropping infinitive...so. (2) There are many compounds of Yiddish and Hebrew loanwords with English words: matse balls round dumplings, shana tova...
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Persian
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...Muslims. There are also a number of Turkish and Mongolian loanwords, reflecting Turkish and Mongol rule in Iran. Growing contacts...Roxanne). Bibliography Jazayery, Mohammad Ali. "Western Loanwords in Persian, with Reference to Westernization." Islamic...
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Jews of Kurdistan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...speak various Aramaic dialects containing many Kurdish, Persian, Turkish, and Arabic loanwords. The Jewish dialects also include many Hebrew loanwords. Because the topography and climate make travel and communication very difficult, almost...
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APOSTROPHE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...of using the apostrophe for noun plurals, especially in loanwords ending in a vowel (as in We doe confess Errata's , Leonard...had them. Most of the nouns using such apostrophes were loanwords ending in -o, such as Romeo's . The device proved useful...
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