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loan·word  (lnwûrd)
n.
A word adopted from another language and completely or partially naturalized, as very and hors d'oeuvre, both from French.
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Noun1.loanword - a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
loan
word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
Latinism - a word or phrase borrowed from Latin
Gallicism - a word or phrase borrowed from French


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The loanwords normally used to avoid this problem do not prove feasible in the case of John 4:4-42.
Jesus in Samaria (John 4:4-42): a model for cross-cultural ministry by Wyckoff, Eric John / Biblical Theology Bulletin
The topic of chapter 4 is Old English poetic vocabulary and semantics, emphasizing the substantive use of adjectives, affixation, compounding, loanwords, kennings, metaphor, wordplay, and alliterative collocations.
The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry by Fulk, R.D. / Renaissance Quarterly
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