Loanword
A loanword (or loan word) is a word borrowed from one language and incorporated into another.
What is an oblast? - Blog The World In Photos
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Oblast is a Russian word (область) that describes a type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region".
Published on Monday 26th of July 2010 04:21:58 AM
How Did the Arabic Loanword Algebra Originate From Arabic?
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How Did the Arabic Loanwords Algebra, Sofa, Sash, and Sequin Originate From Arabic Languages?
Published on Monday 26th of July 2010 04:21:58 AM
Sweet Sevdah Story
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he second annotation I made in my White Wedding article was sevdah, a turcism (Turkish loanword) in Serbian. Abdulah Skaljic wrote a comprehensive book on Turkish loanwords in Serbo-Croatian (Turcizmi u srpsko-hrvatskom jeziku, 1966, p. 561)
Published on Monday 26th of July 2010 04:21:58 AM
Viking Legacy On English: What Language Tells Us About Immig
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Scandinavian loanwords — such as ‘husband’ — suggest that the invaders quickly integrated with their new culture, suggesting that the cultures lived side-by-side and were soon on intimate terms. This is in marked contrast to French loanwords. Though there are many more French loanwords, they tend to refer to high culture, law, government and huntin
Published on Monday 26th of July 2010 04:21:58 AM
Russian slang: composing loanwords
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In Russian is quite common to use foreign (especially English) words. These loanwords are usually modified by language in a certain way and in a while become new slang words. Russian could understand these words easily, but for foreigners these words become a headache. Every Russian knows how it works.
Published on Monday 26th of July 2010 04:21:58 AM
Arabic Loanwords In English
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Words the Arabs bequeathed to the English language.
Published on Monday 26th of July 2010 04:21:58 AM
Loanwords etc.: free software translation dillemas
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Information technology is full of English expressions which other cultures assimilated to some degree, even if sometimes there are proper expressions in the native language. Free software translators (at least the Brazilian ones) recurrently discuss about whether to adopt an English word, hence I decided to do some research on the subject.
Published on Monday 26th of July 2010 04:21:58 AM
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