Wanderword

Quick meaning: Wanderword is a noun meaning (linguistics) Synonym of Wanderwort (“a loanword that has spread to many different languages, often through trade or the adoption of foreign cultural practices”).

Meaning

(linguistics) Synonym of Wanderwort (“a loanword that has spread to many different languages, often through trade or the adoption of foreign cultural practices”).

Example Sentences

It is perhaps, therefore, a late 'wander-word' of the southeast of the IE world, Semitic and Sumerian.

In this general context, Mallory's dismissal (1989, 150) of this “comparison that simply will not go away” as a mere “wander word” clearly illustrates his ideological position.

Like the static Bangla she describes in the extract above — and like the traditional mother — Mukherjee's wanderwords usually stay at home, in narrative strands set in India, their local colour harmoniously interwoven with her fiction's literary English.

Considering the mileage it has achieved as a horizon wanderword in divers shapes representable as sV(l)mV(n)-, the Latin salmo (salmonis) cited by Pliny and Ausonius is vexing as regards its etymology, a quality it shares with many other Roman and Greek [...]

Word Forms

• wanderwords
• wander word
• wander-word

Synonyms for wanderword

Depending on context, synonyms include Wanderwort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wanderwort, denizen, anglicism, wolder, wiktionary, outlandisher.

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