từ ngoại lai

Vietnamese

Etymology

từ (“word”) +‎ ngoại lai (“foreign; exotic”), probably a calque of Chinese 外來語／外来语 (ngoại lai ngữ).

Pronunciation
  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tɨ˨˩ ŋwaːj˧˨ʔ laːj˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tɨ˦˩ ŋwaːj˨˩ʔ laːj˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [tɨ˨˩ ŋwaːj˨˩˨ laːj˧˧]

Noun

từ ngoại lai

  1. (linguistics) a word of foreign origin; a loanword, foreign word, calque, etc.
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