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- ...[death]]. The term, in this later sense, entered the English language as a loanword. The death of a martyr or the value attributed to it is called martyrdom.2 KB (325 words) - 01:26, 13 December 2020
- ...e to an incorrect association with the etymologically unrelated Old French loanword ''isle'', which itself comes from the [[Latin]] word ''insula''. Old Englis3 KB (470 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
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- ...[meaning]] "crowd". The latter is [[considered]] to be an early Lithuanian loanword from Germanic [[origin]], cf. Belarusian полк - połk [[meaning]] regim5 KB (706 words) - 23:56, 12 December 2020
- ...h]] word "papyrus" derives, via Latin, from Greek πάπυρος (papuros),[12] a loanword of unknown (perhaps Pre-Greek) origin. Greek has a second word for it, βύ6 KB (901 words) - 01:24, 13 December 2020
- The word ''gender'' comes from the [[Middle English]] ''gendre'', a loanword from Norman-conquest-era Old French. This, in turn, came from [[Latin]] '': ...nder' identity difficult. In some contexts, German has adopted the English loanword ''Gender'' to achieve this distinction. Sometimes ''Geschlechtsidentität''17 KB (2,536 words) - 00:07, 13 December 2020
- ...n in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny Pliny], where it is apparently a loanword, and refers to a new type of plough with two wheels in use in [https://en.w9 KB (1,526 words) - 02:37, 13 December 2020
- ...ench]] "''race''" - "race, breed, lineage" (which in turn was probably a [[Loanword|loan]] from the [[Italian language|Italian]] "''razza''"). Meanings of the73 KB (10,798 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020