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'loan word' is a grammatically correct term that is used in written English.
You can use it when referring to a word that has been borrowed from another language and incorporated into the English language. Example sentence: English language has many loan words from French and Latin.
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loan word
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Alternative form of loanword
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Aferim is a Turkish loan word Romanians use for "bravo", but with a slight sarcastic edge.
A witness to the attack, who described it in an emotional account on her Facebook page, referred to it as "a lynch," using the English loan word that is common in Hebrew.
Slon.ru, an online business edition, tweeted the news in overtly archaic Russian, avoiding possibly criminal words such as shtraf (vira is the Old Slavic term, in case you wondered – although it is also a Scandinavian loan word dating back to the 11th century), but wasn't able to follow through when trying to ask its readers to "retweet".
The first and second words are proper names while the last word is a loan word from the word "poll result".
A possible reason for this might be that in their L1, the document showing someone's medical records is called "Karte," which is a loan word from German, and some Japanese people wrongly think "Karte" is English.
Examples of correctly recognized OOV words, such as proper name and loan word, are shown in Fig. 3. Five variations of RNNLMs were investigated: word-based (W), PM-based (PM), full-hybrid (H-F), and two variations of reduced-hybrid (H-R1 and H-R2).
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All languages take in foreign loan words.
It's full of loan words and near-synonyms.
The language that evolved combines Arawak grammar with African, English, and Spanish loan words.
1500 bc (the evidence being the Baltic loan words in proto-Finnic), when the "proto-Finns" still maintained contact with the Mordvins and the Sami.
Spend several years searching Classical Greek for loan words ("linguistic ghosts," Fox calls them) that for arcane reasons obvious only to linguists clearly predate Classical Greek.
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