Loan Word

A Loan Word is a Base Word that is used by a Natural Language other than the one it was borrowed from.

• Context:
  • Word Borrowing Process.
  • Loan Translation Process.

• Example(s):
  • Schadenfreude is a German Loan Word into the English Language.
  • pasta, Italian.
  • piano, Italian.
  • grattacielo a Calque from “skyscraper”.
• See: Calque.

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