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  2. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms - Wikipedia

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    Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...

  3. List of English words of Japanese origin - Wikipedia

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    Words of Japanese origin have entered many languages. ... 菜っ葉, Chinese cabbage, (in Japan, it is a generic term for leaf vegetables.) nashi (pear)

  4. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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    A great number of words of French origin have entered the English language, to the extent that many Latin words have come to the English language. Up to 45% of all English words have a French origin. [1] [verification needed] [better source needed] This suggests that 80,000 words should appear in this list.

  5. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    The original series initially consisted of 3 million records (Persian: فیش (French: fiche) or برگه "barge") (up to 100 meanings/records for each word or proper noun) until Dehkhoda's death in March 1956, and currently contains 343,466 entries that, according to the latest digital release of the dictionary by Tehran University Press ...

  6. Loanwords in Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Gairaigo (外来語, Japanese pronunciation: [ɡaiɾaiɡo]) is Japanese for "loan word", and indicates a transcription into Japanese.In particular, the word usually refers to a Japanese word of foreign origin that was not borrowed in ancient times from Old or Middle Chinese (especially Literary Chinese), but in modern times, primarily from English, Portuguese, Dutch, and modern Chinese ...

  7. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".

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  9. Japanese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Called gairaigo (外来語) in Japanese, this layer of vocabulary consists of non-Sino-Japanese words of foreign origin, mostly borrowed from Western languages after the 16th century; many of them entered the language in the 20th century. [8]