Example sentences for: loanword

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

  • , Wagen `car'/ wagen `dare,' Arm `arm'/ arm `poor'); loanword identification (e.g.

  • As in all languages, the older a loanword, the less recognizable it is, so I start with some of these and then move on.

  • The dropping of goulash communism (1968 citation; economic approach in thencommunist Hungary emphasizing greater production of consumer goods) and gramadan (1970 citation; Hindi loanword applied to a Gandhian form of land collectivization in India), both in the 1963 book but not in TBDNE , reflects the fact that, in a living language, citations require different analysis and judgment after the perspective of time is added.

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

  • 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).


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