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<p>New page: A &#039;&#039;&#039;native word&#039;&#039;&#039; is a word (or more precisely, <a href="/index.php/Lexeme" title="Lexeme">lexeme</a>) that was not <a href="/index.php/Borrowing_(i.e._copying)" title="Borrowing (i.e. copying)">borrowed</a> from another language, but was inherited from an earlier stage of the langu...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A '''native word''' is a word (or more precisely, [[lexeme]]) that was not [[borrowing (i.e. copying)|borrowed]] from another language, but was inherited from an earlier stage of the language, i.e. a word that is not a [[loanword]]. <br /> <br /> ===Comments===<br /> Strictly speaking, the term ''native word'' can only be relative to some earlier stage of the language. So English ''hand'' can be said to be a native word (as opposed to the semantically related ''manual'', a loanword), but only with respect to [[Old English]] or [[Proto-Germanic]]. At a still earlier time, ''hand'' may have been borowed from some other language, i.e. it may be a loanword after all (we have no way of knowing).<br /> <br /> ===Synonym===<br /> [[inherited word]]<br /> <br /> ===other languages===<br /> German [[Erbwort]]<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Contact-induced change]]<br /> [[Category:Word]]</div>

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