Example sentences for: loanword

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

  • ' The pronunciation “for-tay” is an illiteracy, scarcely attributable (as given here and in various dictionaries) to a confusion with the musical direction so pronounced because that is a loanword from Italian: those who know about musical directions are not likely to blunder that badly.

  • , 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.

  • 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).

  • 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).


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