Example sentences for: loanwords

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

  • ' Other loanwords which have acquired changed meanings include chitra `axis deer,' from citra `spotted'; hathi `gray,' from hathi `elephant'; pukka `genuine, reliable, good,' from pakka `cooked, ripe, mature'; puttee `soldier's legging,' from patti `bandage'; pyke `civilian at whose expense a soldier is treated,' from payik `messenger'; and toddy `type of hot drink,' from tari `palmyra palm juice.

  • But perhaps the greatest number of loanwords has been provided by games and sports.

  • 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.

  • ) Two years ago, the culture ministers of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland agreed to simplify the German language--among other things, by reducing the rules governing the use of commas from 52 to nine, reducing the number of spelling rules from 212 to 112, and performing Teutonic enhancement on certain foreign loanwords.

  • Part IV consists of an Appendix and a supplementary list of loanwords.


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