• Ahmed Ghazi Mohaisen

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This paper shows what is the meaning of borrowing and defines it as introducing a
word from one language or dialect into another vocabulary borrowings are usually called loan
words. Examples including, ‘smoking’ and ‘computer’ (from English into French) and then
shows the processes of language borrowing and how Language borrowing has been an interest
to various fields of linguistics for some time. In the study of language borrowing, loan words are
only one of the types of borrowings that occur across language boundaries and loan words the
first kind of the borrowing and that is one of the most frequent ways of acquiring new words and
speakers of all languages do it. English-speakers have long been among the most enthusiastic
borrowers of other people’s words on earth, and many, many thousands of English words have
been acquired in just this way. We get (kayak) from Eskimo language. (whisky) from Scots
Gaelic. Another process is loan shift that occurs is that of adopting native words to the new
meanings. A good example from the early Christian era in England is Easter, which had earlier
been used for a pagan dawn goddess festival. Other loan shifts in English include God, heaven,
and hell. Another kind is A loan-translation or claque occurs when the native language uses an
item-for- item native version of the original. ’loan word‘ itself is a loan-translation of the
German lehnwort and on the other hand this paper shows how the borrowing occurs at the end.

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