loanword

word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language
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loanword

Summary

loanword ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (504 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • loanword's image is recorded as Rovas in European languages.jpg[2].
  • loanword's GND ID is recorded as 4035076-9[3].
  • loanword's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85074525[4].
  • loanword's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85074524[5].
  • loanword's subclass of is recorded as word[6].
  • loanword's Commons category is recorded as Loanwords[7].
  • loanword's opposite of is recorded as native word[8].
  • loanword's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 6210[9].
  • loanword's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0g8n5[10].
  • loanword's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lists of loanwords[11].
  • loanword's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 412[12].
  • loanword's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as P324[13].
  • loanword's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0192809[14].
  • loanword's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • loanword's described by source is recorded as Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[16].
  • loanword's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000215083[17].
  • loanword's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/loanword[18].
  • loanword's has immediate cause is recorded as linguistic borrowing[19].
  • loanword's BBC Things ID is recorded as 50642a4f-bdea-44ce-a352-e91d960c87dc[20].
  • loanword's Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 10418[21].
  • loanword's different from is recorded as unadapted loanword[22].
  • loanword's different from is recorded as calque[23].
  • loanword's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 2814[24].
  • loanword's YSO ID is recorded as 6721[25].
  • loanword's studied by is recorded as lexicology[26].

Why It Matters

loanword ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (504 views/month).[1] loanword has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] loanword is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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