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Example sentences for: loanwords
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Curiously, there are only 118 words pertaining to Physics among the loanwords cited, and one would have expected more.
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):
(In this article, Hindi is used to cover loanwords which etymologists attribute to either Hindi or Urdu.
But the verb kvell , which exactly expresses that emotion, is already (like other Yiddish loanwords, such as chutzpah, meshugga and nosh ) to be found in the Supplement to the Oxford-English Dictionary .
For example, out of a sampling of 481 Hindi loanwords (that is, I know, an odd number for a sampling of any kind, but it happens to be the number I had carded as of the moment I began writing this article), 167 were borrowed by Hindi from Sanskrit and another four from Pakrit.
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