reborrowing — noun a) A word taken back from another language or the process involved in this. Such words may have changed in meaning or form. b) Something reborrowed. See Also: borrowing … Wiktionary
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Loanword — A loanword (or loan word ) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept whereby it is the meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the… … Wikipedia
Proto-Indo-European religion — The chariot, as a symbol of social rank and military strength but also mythologically as the sun chariot (Trundholm sun chariot pictured, Nordic Bronze Age, ca. 160 … Wikipedia
Hapa — is a Hawaiian term used to describe a person of mixed Asian or Pacific Islander racial/ethnic heritage. [ [http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/hapa/] ] [ [http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/hapa/hapa.html] ] [ [http://www.imdiversity … Wikipedia
Doublet (linguistics) — For other uses, see Doublet (disambiguation). In etymology, two or more words in the same language are called doublets or etymological twins (or possibly triplets, etc.) when they have different phonological forms but the same etymological root.… … Wikipedia
Mandarin Chinese profanity — The traditional Chinese characters for the word huàidàn (壞蛋/坏蛋), a Mandarin Chinese profanity meaning, literally, bad egg Mandarin Chinese profanity consists of many slang words and insults involving sex. While many offensive words and expletives … Wikipedia
borrowing — noun a) An instance of borrowing something. b) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword. See Also: reborrowing … Wiktionary
Dorothea — f English, German, and Dutch: Latinate form of a post classical Greek name composed of the elements dōron gift + theos god (the same elements as in THEODORA (SEE Theodora), but in reverse order). The masculine form Dōrotheus (see DOROFEI (SEE… … First names dictionary
arrange — [14] Arrange is a French formation: Old French arangier was a compound verb formed from the prefix a and the verb rangier ‘set in a row’ (related to English range and rank). In English its first, and for a long time its only meaning was ‘array in … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
