外来語

See also: 外來語 and 外来语

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外来語

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Gairaigo

Alternative spelling
外來語 (kyūjitai)

Compound of 外来 (gairai, “foreign”) +‎ 語 (-go, “morpheme; word; expression”).^[1] First used by Ueda Kazutoshi in 1895,^[1] likely as a calque of German Fremdwort.^[2]

外(がい)来(らい)語(ご) • (gairaigo) ^{←ぐわいらいご (gwairaigo)^?}

[1895] (linguistics) a "recent"^[2] loanword, a Japanese word that has been borrowed since the modernization of Japan during the Meiji era from a modern foreign language, especially a European one; compare 借用語 (shakuyōgo)
「ググる」とは外来語(がいらいご)だ。
“Guguru” to wa gairaigo da.
"To google" is a recent loanword.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “外来語”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Frellesvig, Bjarke (2010) A History of the Japanese Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN