loanword

loanword or loan word [lohn-wurd] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.

Origin of loanword 1870–75; translation of German Lehnwort Also called loan. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for loanword Historical Examples of loanword

It has, consequently, in not a few cases, been difficult to decide whether a word is a loanword or not.

Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch

George Tobias Flom