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A word your language borrowed and never planned on returning.
means A word adopted from another language and used as part of your own, usually without translating it.
from From a direct translation (a 'loan translation' or calque) of the German word 'Lehnwort,' itself built from 'leihen' (to lend) and 'Wort' (word) — making the term for a borrowed word delightfully a borrowed idea itself, lifted straight from German linguistics into English.
- no repayment
- languages never give words back
- english example
- kindergarten, smuggled in whole from german
- irony
- the word loanword is itself calqued from german
- scale
- english is roughly 80 percent borrowed vocabulary