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Many languages, including English, contain words (Russianisms) most likely borrowed from the Russian language. Not all of the words are of purely Russian or origin. Some of them co-exist in other Slavic languages, and it can be difficult to determine whether they entered English from Russian or, say, Bulgarian. Some other words are borrowed or ...
The following are lists of words in the English language that are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages. For Old English -derived words, see List of English words of Old English origin .
The English language has borrowed many words from other cultures or languages. For examples, see Lists of English words by country or language of origin and Anglicisation. Some English loanwords remain relatively faithful to the original phonology even though a particular phoneme might not exist or have contrastive status in English.
A lot of the words mentioned in these discussion are from Russian. Russian has more ways to pronounce words than English or almost any other languages, except Slavic languages because they are the same in many ways including this one. You can call a car Mashina, Mashinka, Mashinochka. In English you can only call a car a car.
In words borrowed from other languages, /e/ often follows hard consonants; this foreign pronunciation usually persists in Russian for many years until the word is more fully adopted into Russian. [12] For instance, шофёр (from French chauffeur) was pronounced [ʂoˈfɛr] ⓘ in the early twentieth century, [13] but is now pronounced ...
There are no native Russian words that begin with ы (except for the specific verb ыкать: "to say the ы -sound"), but there are many proper and common nouns of non-Russian origin (including some geographical names in Russia) that begin with it: Kim Jong-un (Ким Чен Ын) and Eulji Mundeok (Ыльчи Мундок), a Korean military ...
[note 3] Because they are used in comparable printed reference works, the stress marks have made their way into the Russian Wikipedia, primarily in the headwords. [note 4] Consequently, imitating the style of—and copying text from—the Russian Wikipedia and the aforementioned types of works has caused them to enter the English Wikipedia as well.
[6] [7] In this same manner many of the Russian loan-words become an English–Russian hybrid, with Russian origins, and English spellings and pronunciations. [8] A further example is the Russian word for 'head', golová, which sounds similar to Gulliver known from Gulliver's Travels; Gulliver became the Nadsat expression for the concept 'head ...