Loanword

Pronunciation

• Australia IPA: en, /ˈloÊŠnwɝd/
• UK IPA: en, /ˈləʊn.wɜː(ɹ)d/

Alternative forms

Origin

Compound of , .

Noun

1. A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation.The word exit is a loanword from Latin.
• 1921, H. L. Mencken, S:The American Language/Chapter 32, New words, and particularly loanwords, are simplified, and hence naturalized in American much more quickly than in English. Employé has long since become employee in our newspapers, and asphalte has lost its final e, and manÅ“uvre has become maneuver, and pyjamas has become pajamas.
• 2018, James Lambert, Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles

Synonyms

• borrowing
• foreign word informal
• gainword

Trivia

• While the term loanword is a calque from German, the term calque is a loanword from French.