Words similar to loanwords

Example sentences for: loanwords

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

Curiously, there are only 118 words pertaining to Physics among the loanwords cited, and one would have expected more.
At the end of his article, “Some English Loanwords in Thai” [XXI, 1], Paul Blackford notes he has been unable to find out why the name for the Beatles in Thai is Sii Tao Tong `The Four Golden Turtles.
To illustrate how useful the volume can be, let us assume that you have heard the two common Yiddish loanwords used in English, schlimazel and schlemiel . How do you find them in a reserve dictionary?
Other loanwords repeat the Sydney pattern, striking or otherwise significant flora, fauna, and weapons being named: so there is the Tasmanian boobialla , a fruit-bearing Acacia, the Melburnian bullan bullan , a beautiful bird with a lyre-shaped tail, the Brisbane yungan gong, the Adelaide pinkie , a bilby or bandicoot, and the Perth quokka , a species of wallaby.
Then, too, the OED does not always transliterate foreign scripts, which might put those who cannot read Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, Thai, etc., at a disadvantage when examining cognates or loanwords.