Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A word adopted from another language and completely or partially naturalized, as very and hors d'oeuvre, both from French.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A borrowed word; a word taken into one language from another.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. blitz is a German word borrowed into modern English.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
Etymologies
- loan + word, a calque of German Lehnwort (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term is a loanword from the Japanese language.”
“He even launched a fragrance called Safari, proof that, by 1990, the loanword from Swahili had journeyed far from its literal, earlier meanings.”
“As a loanword to many other languages, shampoo carries associations of scientific advance, mass production, and national-level marketing, which themselves took off just when shampoos were first manufactured for export.”
“DeMille, and as the new stripe of entertainment seized larger audiences, film became a favorite loanword around the world.”
“Recall how Hindi provided a term that was retooled by speakers of English into shampoo, which has since circled back to the subcontinent to become an “English” loanword to Hindi.”
“In the majority of the most-spoken languages today, stress has become a loanword that readily captures particular experiences of the nerve-rattling kind, those common to people who inhabit the faster-paced millennial world—and who have identified the key source of their problems as their unsettling experience of that world.”
“Peter Harvey, linguist: Spanish hypercorrection of a loanword”
“Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Spanish hypercorrection of a loanword:”
“Only those the splendidly self-confident British upper classes would deign to deliberately and with self-ease not italicise a French loanword; in doing so, I was in fact expressing my position as not being of such social elevation.”
Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘loanword’.
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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WF - all types of word formation
My ambition is to build a list with the names for
1. ALL types of word formation
2. the words put together by 1.
using a strict definition: e.g. "antonym", "aptronym" "palindrom...camel case, incapping, suffixing, capitalization, compound, agglutination, back-formation, blending, acronym, clipping, calque, semantic loan and 56 more...
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amberella's Words
facetious, behoove, akrasia, schadenfreude, halcyon, vapid, wanderlust, bluestocking, drazel, succinct, literati, geason and 116 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for loanword.
reesetee Nah, no one should have to remove a word just because others don't like it. That's so un-Wordielike.
But I do love shad-enfreude, John. Excellent. Sep 8, 2007
john I can't stand it either, but I'm madly in love with shad-enfreude. Sep 7, 2007
seanahan Shall we bug all the people who have it until they remove it? Or does that violate one of the Wordie commandments, "Thou shalt not criticize other's words". Sep 7, 2007
reesetee ...and neither can I. Still. ;-) Sep 7, 2007
uselessness ...and I can't stand it. ;-) Sep 7, 2007
john "Topping the list of the “most wordied�? words is schadenfreude, submitted by 250 users. This German loanword, defined by the New Oxford American Dictionary as “pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune,�? easily outpaces runners-up like quixotic, serendipity, loquacious, and plethora."
- http://blog.oup.com/2007/09/schadenfreude/ Sep 7, 2007