English Explanatory Dictionary

reborrowing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.
Something reborrowed.

verb

present participle and gerund of reborrow

Word forms

reborrowing reborrowings

Related words

borrowing twice-borrowed

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