Borrowing (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Borrowing

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Lexical borrowing is very widespread and may affect even those words that play an important role in our daily life. English 'mountain', for example, was borrowed from Old French, along with many other words

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Johann-Mattis List, Hans Sell

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