That word "Iowa," that was a native word, and lots of places throughout the state were named after tribes: Sioux City.
If a new word resembles a word in your native tongue, create a mental image association between the native word and the new word.
This is especially true for borrowed verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, as native words often exist, and the borrowed words fill narrow lexical gaps.
We used three types of spoken disyllabic consonant-vowel (CVCV) stimuli as follows: (1) familiar native words, (2) phonologically native novel word-forms, and (3) novel word-forms comprising non-native phonology.
"Schottenfreude" begins with a quote by Charles Follen, from "A Practical Grammar of the German Language": "The German language is sufficiently copious and productive, to furnish native words for any idea that can be expressed at all".
Foreign elements have to be identified and explained as well as replaced, wherever possible, by native words.
I use a few of the native words sometimes.
Perhaps French has been the greatest supplier of words throughout the ages, often displacing native words.
Stress is placed on the first syllable in native words, with sporadic exceptions for compounds.
But academies can guide the process by making suggestions for native words; in a country like Iceland, they are successful, since Icelanders are fiercely proud of the language and prefer native-built words.
