Search results for "Loanword" - New World Encyclopedia
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- suffering; pain"), and this loanword is pronounced ku (苦) in Japanese Buddhism and ko (苦) in Korean Buddhism. In Tibetan it is སྡུག་ ...11 KB (1,613 words) - 18:37, 24 August 2020
- word doudo or doido may itself be a loanword from Old English (cp. English "dolt"). Yet another possibility, as author David Quammen ...10 KB (1,436 words) - 11:03, 2 August 2023
- The word gender comes from the Middle English gendre, a loanword from ... contexts, German has adopted the English loanword Gender to achieve this distinction ...24 KB (3,629 words) - 06:41, 18 April 2024
- to the latter theory and view the loanword hypothesis with skepticism. ... ==As a loanword== ===English and other European languages=== ...42 KB (6,212 words) - 23:54, 4 March 2024
- "Meerkat" is a loanword from Afrikaans. The name has a Dutch origin but by misidentification. Dutch meerkat refers to the "guenon ...15 KB (2,314 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- As a loanword from Norwegian, it is the only word in the English language to begin with the digraph fj. ===Scandinavian usage=== Use of the word ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- The word pistachio is a Persian loanword, coming into English through Italian, and is a cognate to the Modern Persian word پسته Peste'. ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- A truck is a motorized vehicle usually used for transporting bulk goods, materials, or equipment. The word "truck" comes from the Greek ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon) is a person who undertakes and ...16 KB (2,206 words) - 22:07, 4 July 2020
- with the etymologically unrelated Old French loanword isle, which was a component of paenīnsula, which meant "almost-island" . ...19 KB (2,807 words) - 19:43, 7 February 2023
- <!-- --> {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Tamils |picture = Murali.jpg |poptime = 77,000,0002 [http://www.vistawide.com/languages/top_30_languages ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- The very common Chinese loanword ラーメン (rāmen) is rarely written with its kanji 拉麺. Katakana spelling differs slightly from hiragana ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- absent from Gothic), and is thought to be a loanword from one of the north Italic languages. In these it had different meanings: in Raetic plaumorati ...30 KB (5,003 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language ...45 KB (6,537 words) - 15:24, 25 February 2023
- Coyote is the common name for a New World canine, Canis latrans, that resembles a small wolf or medium-sized dog and is characterized by a narrow ...35 KB (5,386 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- which was a loanword from Old English. title=Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. |contribution=bell, n.1 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location ...42 KB (6,679 words) - 22:00, 26 December 2023
- An apartment (American English), or flat (British English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
