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which are known as "loanword
Loanword
A loanword is a word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept where the meaning or idiom is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself. The word loanword is itself a calque of the German Lehnwort,...
s" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages.
For purely native (Anglo-Saxon-derived) words, see List of English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
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See also
- AnglicisationAnglicisationAnglicisation, or anglicization , is the process of converting verbal or written elements of any other language into a form that is more comprehensible to an English speaker, or, more generally, of altering something such that it becomes English in form or character.The term most often refers to...
- AnglishAnglishAnglo-Saxon linguistic purism is a kind of English linguistic purism, which favors words of native origin over those of foreign origin. In its mild form, it merely means using existing native words instead of foreign ones...
, a type of linguistic purism in English - Foreign language influences in EnglishForeign language influences in EnglishWhile many words enter English as slang, not all do. Some words are adopted from other languages; some are mixtures of existing words , and some are new coinages made of roots from dead languages: e.g. thanatopsis. No matter the origin, though, words seldom, if ever, are immediately accepted into...
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