Foreign Words is a novel by Greek author Vassilis Alexakis that tells the story of middle-aged writer Nicolaides and his decision to learn the African...
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Tagalog language (redirect from Tagalog Words of Foreign Origin)
foreign words that are "Filipinized" by reforming them using Filipino rules, such as verb conjugations. Users typically use Filipino or English words...
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English-derived words, see List of English words of Old English origin. English words of African origin List of English words of Afrikaans origin List of South...
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Loanword (redirect from Loan words)
it is from another language, the word can be called a foreign word. There are many foreign words and phrases used in English such as bon vivant (French)...
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English language (redirect from Number of words in the English language)
presumably includes words such as Latin species names, scientific terminology, botanical terms, prefixed and suffixed words, jargon, foreign words of extremely...
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Estonian orthography (section Foreign words)
in writing foreign proper names. They do not occur in Estonian words, and are not officially part of the alphabet. Including all the foreign letters, the...
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Slovene language (section Foreign words)
a Second/Foreign Language Slovenian Phonology Slovene Grammar Slovenian National Corpus 600 M words corpus of Slovenian FidaPLUS 200 M words corpus of...
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Euphemism (section Foreign words)
and laid are euphemisms for 'sexual intercourse'. Expressions or words from a foreign language may be imported for use as euphemism. For example, the French...
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language and claims to have reduced the use of foreign words, but the reality is that many foreign words appear in North Korean dictionaries and textbooks...
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Anglicisation (linguistics) (section Loan words)
linguistics, anglicisation or anglicization is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce or understand...
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Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms. These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms)...
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Russian alphabet (section Treatment of foreign sounds)
or in compound words (e.g. поэ́тому 'therefore' = по + этому, where этому is the dative case of этот). In words that come from foreign languages in which...
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pangram not using any of the special letters used in Estonian only for foreign words (c, f, q, š, z, ž, w, x, y). Põdur Zagrebi tšellomängija-följetonist...
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for Latin speakers, and the letter was initially only used to spell foreign words. This history has led to the standard modern names of the letter in...
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information. Later on, these phonemic symbols also became used to transcribe foreign words. The first fully phonemic script was the Proto-Sinaitic script, also...
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⟨q⟩, ⟨v⟩, and ⟨x⟩ are not used in any native Polish words and are mostly found in foreign words (such as place names) and commercial names. In loanwords...
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The words of foreign origin or loanwords illustrate those processes: calques, loanwords, the distinction between function words and content words. Note:...
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for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia,...
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most common foreign language influences in English, where other languages have influenced or contributed words to English. Celtic words are almost absent...
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of foreign words. For the patent doctrine regarding equivalent means to practice an invention, see Doctrine of equivalents. The doctrine of foreign equivalents...
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unorthodox readings for kanji, pop culture references, or the use of foreign words. Names with one or more of these characteristics have been described...
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wanted to know the meaning, including technical terms, neologisms, and foreign words. "uwu". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. February 12, 2020....
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Pleonasm (section Foreign words)
results when two seemingly contradictory words are adjoined. Redundancies sometimes take the form of foreign words whose meaning is repeated in the context:...
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Turkish phonology (section Foreign words)
more regularly, especially for frequent words and those whose foreign origin is not apparent. For example, the words rahat ('comfort') and sanat ('art') take...
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Yo (Cyrillic) (section Transcription of foreign words)
stages.[citation needed] ⟨Ё⟩ can be used in Russian transcription of foreign words originating from languages that use the sound /ø/ or /œ/, spelled eu/ö/ő/ø...
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Slovene alphabet (section Foreign words)
letters: The following Latin letters are also found separately alphabetized in words of non-Slovene origin: Ć (mehki č), Đ (dže), Q (ku), W (dvojni ve), X (iks)...
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Kiezdeutsch (section Introduction of foreign words)
"blond") New foreign words are integrated from heritage languages such as Turkish and Arabic, but also American English. These foreign words are used following...
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languages, the letter only exists in old names, loanwords and foreign words. (Foreign words are distinguished from loanwords by having a significantly lower...
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Diacritic (redirect from Funny Foreign Squiggle)
words (é, 'is' vs. e, 'and'), but the diaeresis is only used with ï and ü to show two separate vowel sounds in pronunciation. Only in foreign words may...
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German orthography (section Foreign words)
especially words of Greek origin, but some such words (such as Typ) have become so common that they are no longer perceived as foreign. It used to be...
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