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A Wanderwort is a word that has been borrowed across a wide range of languages remote from its original source; an example is the word tea, which originated in Hokkien but has been borrowed into languages all over the world. For a sufficiently old Wanderwort, it may become difficult or impossible to determine in what language it actually ...
A calque / k æ l k / or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: "verbum pro verbo") translation. This list contains examples of calques in various languages.
Reanalysis of loan words can affect their spelling, pronunciation, or meaning. The word cockroach, for example, was borrowed from Spanish cucaracha but was assimilated to the existing English words cock and roach. [18] The phrase forlorn hope originally meant "storming party, body of skirmishers" [19] from Dutch verloren hoop "lost troop".
Additionally, some English words in French might not have the same meaning as those words in English. One example is the word "golf", which has an increased semantic field, referring not just to the game of golf, but also to a golf course, as in on va aller au golf (trans: "we're going to the golf course"). [citation needed]
The phoneme [t͡ɬ] at the end of a word underwent varying changes. In some cases, an [e] was appended, and the final phoneme [t͡ɬ] became [t], giving rise to the common ending -te. Some examples are the words elote (<élotl), meaning “corn cob”; metate (métatl), which refers to a mealing stone; and petate (<pétatl), a type of
So the word became a metaphor for something immense and unstoppable because of institutional or physical inertia; or impending catastrophe that is foreseeable yet virtually unavoidable because of such inertia. Jungle from the Sanskrit word जङ्गल jaṅgala, and later jangal in Hindi as जंगल and Urdu as جنگل. Jaṅgala means ...
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Other words are 'early anglicisms', having entered the language in the 18th and 19th centuries: praghas: "price" (also possibly from Norman French preis, pris) dabht: "doubt" (the Irish words are: ambras, gó) The word péint may have been borrowed directly from English "paint" or from Old French peint.