Re: phonology of borrowed words
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 21, 2002, 7:14 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
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> I wonder what cases there have been of English borrowing a word and altering
> it, then the language English borrowed from re-borrowing the Anglicized
> word?
I can't think of any examples of that, but the opposite there are a
number of examples I can think of, like "anime", which comes from
Japanese _anime_, short for _animeeshon_, from English "animation". :-)
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