Example sentences for: loanwords

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

  • Many Hindi loanwords are simply transliterations of the Hindi originals.

  • And were (or are) the js pronounced like h in the scores of loanwords from Spanish?

  • The differences are hard to discern, but no matter, for the book is a user-friendly excursion through the history of the language, with many good examples of loanwords, derivations, and other linguistic incunabula, curiosa, and paraphernalia interestingly presented in a lively fashion by a good writer.

  • As the examples cited above make clear, Hindi loanwords in English relate to a wide variety of subjects.

  • Begum `high-ranking Muslim lady' derives ultimately from Eastern Turkic, while cowrie `a type of sea shell' comes from Tamil or Malayalam kavati via Hindi kauri or kaudi . Two Hindi loanwords have their origin in Europe: ayah `native maid or nurse,' the Hindi version of Portuguese aia , and pulton or pultun `infantry regiment,' adapted from paltan , the Hindi version of English battalion .


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