Loanword

A loanword is a word taken into a tung from another with little or no oversetting. By contrast, a loan oversetting is a kin process whereby it is the meaning that is borrowed rather than the word itself. The word "loanword" is itself a loan oversetting of the German Lehnwort.

Although loanwords are most far less widespread than the homeborn words of most tungs (creoles and pidgins being obvious exceptions), they are often widely known and used, for their borrowing served a certain purpose, for example to give a name to a new invention.

Borrowing and Inheriting
As tungs grow, most times the bulk of the wordstock of a speech is inherited from its fore-eld speech, or ur-speech. Words that are inherited from the fore-eld speech, the "homeborn" words of the tung, are not thought to have been borrowed. Borrowing is when words are added to a speech from any speech other than the fore-eld tung or, on the other hand, when words from one tung are taken into another speech (as when oversetting).