Loanword .ppt

*History of the English Loan Words: * Celtic: Celtic dialects (Welsh. Irish. Scots. Gaelic) example: flannel, clan, slogan, whisky… * Angles, Saxons, Jutes: Germanic dialects * Normans: French (commercial. social. cultural matters. ) * Scandinavian raiders (Old Norse): pronouns (they, their, them) * Renaissance: learned words from Greek and Latin words. From Greek: drama, tragedy, botany, physics, zoology, atomic From Latin: bonus, scientific, exit, alumnus, quorum, describe *Loanwords of English: 1.From Dutch: about shipping Buoy 救生圈 freight 貨物 leak 漏 pump yacht 快艇 2.From German: quartz 石英 cobalt 鈷 3.From Italian: musical terms… opera piano virtuoso 大師 balcony 包廂 influenza 流感 4.From Arabic: alcohol algebra代數學 cipher密碼 zero 5.From Spanish: barbecue, cockroach蟑螂 ranch California Loan translations: Loan translations are compound words or expressions whose parts are translated literally into the borrowing language. Examples: 1. Marriage of convenience--- mariage de convenance 2. Hot dog--- perros calientes adjustment reversing the order of the adjective and noun, as required by the rules of Spanish syntax. * ** Loanword ** 賴婷吟 林書宇 邱惠庭 劉佩詩 林琬芳 賴德純 E2C *Loanword A word is taken into one language from another with little or no translation. 2.The word loanword originated from a calque of the German Lehnwort. 3.Loanwords are typically far less than the native words in most languages . 4. They are often widely known and used;For example, to provide a name for a new invention. *Distinction between borrowing and inheriting Borrowing It is when words are added to a language from any language other than the ancestral language or, on the other hand, when words from one language are taken into another langua