different between reborrowing vs borrowing

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.

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

Related terms

• borrowing
• twice-borrowed

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See also

• Category:English twice-borrowed terms

Further reading

• reborrowing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

Verb

borrowing

1. present participle of borrow

   She is borrowing my pen.

Noun

borrowing (countable and uncountable, plural borrowings)

1. An instance of something being borrowed.
   • January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites

     Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]

2. (linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.

Derived terms

• learned borrowing
• reborrowing
• semi-learned borrowing

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