reborrowing

English

Verb

reborrowing

1. present participle of reborrow

Noun

reborrowing (plural reborrowings)

1. (linguistics) A word that passed from language A into language B and thence back into language A. Such words may have changed in meaning and/or form.

   English football became German Fußball, from which we got the reborrowing foosball.

2. Something reborrowed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

• borrowing
• twice-borrowed

Translations

word taken back from another language

• Finnish: takaisinlaina
• German: Rückentlehnung (de) f

• Greek: αντιδάνειο (el) n (antidáneio)

See also

• Category:English twice-borrowed terms

Further reading

• reborrowing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia