Sentences with phrase «loan words»

Mother - tongue translation «conforms to the insight of the incarnation, namely, that divinity is not a human loan word but rather humanity is the chosen language of divine self - expression.»

Japan's love of «decorative English», a long list of misleading loan words, and the tight deadlines and shoestring staffs of early game development created a new video game dialect that is beloved - and still spoken - to this day.

English delights in loan words, is rapacious in fact, and eventually moulds everything to its shape until it sounds like something a Dickens character might say, origin be damned.

First, it asks students to define a number of etymology terms (e.g. cognate, derivative, loan word), and then it presents a number of questions that has them figuring out how words transform over time and how languages are related to each other.

13c, to lend, to borrow, originally, to let have, to leave (to someone), gift, loan is attested from 1620s, Loan word (1874), loan - translation is attested 1933.

By Rob Poindexter Wanderlust, a loan word from German that came to English sometime between 1875 and 1902, depending on whom you ask.