loanwords

/L OW1 N W ER0 D Z/

noun

1
A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation.
“The word exit is a loanword from Latin.”

Synonyms

borrowing foreign word gainword

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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loanword, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loanwords

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