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by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on August 29th, 2007

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A loanword is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation, example the French word 'entrepreneur.' Do you know any others?

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  • by katydid15 on January 30th, 2009

    katydid15

    So many words come from French:

    coup d'etat
    rendevous
    deja vu

    There are lots more but I can't think of any now.

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  • by leeks5229 on January 22nd, 2009

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    Words I know are: rendezvous (French word also) and blitz (German word).

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  • by Anonymous on August 29th, 2007

    Anonymous

      Yes, I do.

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  • by MagicSquares on January 30th, 2009

    MagicSquares

    The French have (perhaps unofficially) taken in:

    le shampooing
    le weekend
    le pique-nique

    probably much to the dismay of the Academie Francaise.

    English has a lot of such words, largely as a result of its former "empire", so words from India such as:

    jodhpurs
    chukka

    and many more.

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  • by johngo on January 30th, 2009

    johngo

    The one I like is longueur. Byron said that we might not have the word for it in England but we certainly have the thing.

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  • by Brian I on August 29th, 2007

    Brian I

    Including phrases as well as individual words:
    Restaurant, Je ne sais quoi, café, déja vu - French
    Macho - Spanish

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