A nice blog entry about Wanderwoerter (words that
travel between languages in a region).
This is the last of the posts I promised, showing
what loanwords, including Wanderwörter, look like
from the standpoint of mainstream historical
linguistic methodology. After this I'm going to
have to stop posting for a while; term is
starting, with a full load of teaching and
advising, and unfortunately Iâm also chair of my department at the moment.
The first three words discussed here are possible
or probable loanwords into subgroups of
Indo-European; whether you want to call them
Wanderwoerter depends on how much wandering you
want to see demonstrated before you apply the
term. The last word fits the definition of a
Wanderwort unproblematically. [...]
<http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1026>Link
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