| In fact the g in gnu may always have been silent in English, since this loanword did not enter the language until the late 18th century. |
| This lexeme has the same meaning in Akkadian and in Arabic, and specifically in the Akkadian of Mari, which is possibly a loanword from Northwest Semitic. |
| But, like other uniquely Japanese inventions — samurai, sushi, haiku, kaiju — the loanword has stuck. |
| Each term has its own tangled history, like the etymology of a loanword that's drifted in from a distant land. |
| The idea of loanword adaptation or nativization at the phonological level is governed by syllable well-formedness in the recipient language. |
| Samarrai's theory is that early forms of 'fief' include feo, feu, feuz, feuum and others, the plurality of forms strongly suggesting origins from a loanword. |
