reborrowing

/R IY0 B AO1 R OW0 IH0 NG/
noun
  1. 1

    (linguistics) A word that passed from language A into language B and thence back into language A. Such words may have changed in meaning and/or form.

  2. 2

    Something reborrowed.

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