loanword

Etymology

A compound noun of loan + word, a calque of German Lehnwort.

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.
    This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages. 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 251

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