Crossword clues for loanword
loanword
The Collaborative International Dictionary
loanword \loanword\ n. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. blitz is a German word borrowed into modern English.
Syn: loan.
Wiktionary
n. A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation.
WordNet
n. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English [syn: loan]
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.
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.