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Answer for the clue "Master comprehends answer, now cracking each across solution? ", 8 letters:
loanword

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A loanword (also loan word or loan-word ) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into a different, recipient language without translation .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English [syn: loan ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation.

Usage examples of loanword.

Sir Guy Fitz William in a guttural Hebridean Gaelic heavily sprinkled with Norse loanwords, then the knight from out the lands of the Northern Ui Neills turned in his saddle and gave Melchoro a rough translation.

Reining up, the galloglaich rendered his report to Sir Guy FitzWilliam in a guttural Hebridean Gaelic heavily sprinkled with Norse loanwords, then the knight from out the lands of the Northern Ui Neills turned in his saddle and gave Melchoro a rough translation.

Lots of different dialects were spoken, although almost everyone spoke the lingua franca, which was basically trade-slang with a lot of Terranglish cognates and loanwords and a little neighborhood topspin.