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What word means native language?
The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. Noun. ▲ One’s native language. mother language.
How do you define a word in another language?
A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word as adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.
What English words do not have equivalent languages?
Here are a few of the most interesting.
- Awkward. Awkward is the perfect word to describe that peculiarly British blend of embarrassment, discomfort and uncertainty that arises most often in social situations when someone has said something that they shouldn’t.
- Jinx.
- Shallow.
- Insight.
- Nice.
- Put.
- Off.
- Bully.
What are two synonyms for native?
synonyms for native
- endemic.
- indigenous.
- natural.
- constitutional.
- essential.
- fundamental.
- natal.
- original.
What is another word for Native American?
What is another word for Native American?
| North American Indian | Aboriginal |
|---|---|
| Indian | Native |
| Inuit | native |
| Aborigine | aboriginal |
| Metis | aborigine |
Does English have untranslatable words?
You may also be aware that there are words that simply don’t translate well out of or into certain languages. This is even true for English.
What is the same word in every language?
According to scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, there is only one word in existence that’s the same in every language, and that word is ‘huh’.
What is the oldest word in English?
Mother, bark and spit are just three of 23 words that researchers believe date back 15,000 years, making them the oldest known words.