Example sentences for: loanword

How can you use “loanword” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For instance, the British use the word machismo (but pronounce it, almost invariably, as if it were a loanword from Italian, with a - k -where the Spanish has a - tch -).

  • As for stalemate , which is related to checkmate , would it not have been important to indicate that the - mate part has nothing to do with English, having been borrowed from checkmate which is a loanword from Persian (and has nothing to do with check , either).

  • The strangest example of a loanword I have encountered in Thai is half-English, half-Italian musically derived: dedsmollay.

  • Paul Blackford's article [Some English Loanwords in Thai, XXI, 1,5] brought to my mind my favourite chunk of Thai vocabulary and, incidentally, another loanword from English (from Thai for Travellers , DK Arts, Bangkok):

  • Strictly speaking it is not an English loanword.


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