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These new English speakers do not hesitate to inflect borrowed English words as if they owned them.
In English, too, the spelling of the corresponding words can be regarded as etymological with the added peculiarity that they also exemplify the mechanism of spelling pronunciation, because they were borrowed for English from French rather than from Latin at a time when the was no longer pronounced in French.
Pencil (as well as penicillin ) was borrowed from Latin pēnicillus `paintbrush,' a diminutive of peniculus `brush,' which is also a diminutive of penis , which in Latin (also) meant `tail.
A mortgage is a key form of contractual saving in which the homeowner's commitment to repay the principal borrowed compels future saving.
Originally Celtic for wagon , it was borrowed into Latin and thence Norman French as carre , yielding not only the verb carry and its abstract carriage , but also cargo, charge, chariot.