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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.
Probably an elided mix up of sexy, sex bomb, and sex symbol (/sek/sy/m/ bon/) because l is not a final consonant in Thai and if encountered in a loanword becomes n (or in this case m as bomb is also a loanword).
Strictly speaking it is not an English loanword.
As in all languages, the older a loanword, the less recognizable it is, so I start with some of these and then move on.
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):