Word Formation process: Borrowing

Have you ever wondered why there are three different concepts for one word in the English language, for instance weird, odd and strange? This is because native and foreign terms co-exist in English: weird derives from Old English, odd from Old Norse and strange from Old French.

What do we mean by borrowing as word formation???

Borrowing is another formation process in which a word from one language is borrowed directly into another language.

Words which originated in one language are now used in another, even by people who don’t speak the ‘lending’ language. Many terms are borrowed or coined to cover the lexical gaps which have arisen as a result of technological developments.

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Algebra from Arabic

Murder from French 

Pizza 🍕 from Italian

Tamale from Spanish 

Envelope🧧 from French

The word a‘restaurant’ also comes from the French

In Early Modern English the largest expansion of vocabulary was through word-formation processes and borrowing: mainly from Latin (perfect, logic) and French (elegant, decision), but also from other languages, such as Greek (theology, trilogy), Italian (opera, balcony), Spanish and Portuguese (alcohol, alligator)

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