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Loanword

A loanword is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing. Borrowing is a metaphorical term that is well established in the linguistic field despite its acknowledged descriptive flaws: nothing is taken away from the donor language and t…

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Loanword

Nodes112
Edges111
Triples82
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017857
Components1

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Loanword

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related to Transmission in the Ottoman Empire · 26
Loanword → After, Albanian, Arabic, Atatürk's Reforms, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, During, French, Greek, Hungarian, Ladino, Macedonian, Many, Montenegrin, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Republic, Serbian
related to Linguistic classification · 12
Loanword → Basing, Betz's, Duckworth, Einar Haugen, English, German, German Fremdwort, Loanwords, Such, The, Uriel Weinreich, Werner Betz
related to Examples and related terms · 11
Loanword → English, Examples, French, German, German Kindergarten, IPA-label-small, Lehnwort, Lehnübersetzung, Loanwords, Persian, The
related to Romance languages · 11
Loanword → Classical, Ecclesiastical Latin, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romance, Spanish, These, This, Vulgar Latin
related to In English · 8
Loanword → Anglicisation, English, For, Hawaiian, Lists, Some English, The English, The Hawaiian
related to Cultural aspects · 4
Loanword → According, Brian Joseph, Hans Henrich Hock, The
related to External links · 3
Loanword → AfBo, WOLD, World Loanword Database
is a · 2
Loanword → calque, word at least partly assimilated from one language

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language words english languages french word loanwords many also borrowed latin romance borrowing borrowings used und dutch linguistic new contact

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Loanwordis aword at least partly assimilated from one language0.90text
Loanwordis acalque0.90text
bon vivantinstance ofThere are many foreign words and phrases used in English0.80text
Persianinstance ofleft-wing publications use more words adopted from Indo-European languages0.80text
Frenchinstance ofleft-wing publications use more words adopted from Indo-European languages0.80text
while centrist publications use more native Turkish root words.Dutch words in IndonesianAlmost 350 years of Dutch presence in what is now Indonesia have left significant linguistic tracesinstance ofleft-wing publications use more words adopted from Indo-European languages0.80text
while centrist publications use more native Turkish root wordsinstance ofleft-wing publications use more words adopted from Indo-European languages0.80text
Loanwordrelated to Cultural aspectsAccording0.60section
Loanwordrelated to Cultural aspectsHans Henrich Hock0.60section
Loanwordrelated to Cultural aspectsBrian Joseph0.60section
Loanwordrelated to Cultural aspectsThe0.60section
Loanwordrelated to Examples and related termsLoanwords0.60section

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