Example sentences for: loanword

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

  • 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):

  • 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.

  • 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 -).

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


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