English Dictionary

Wanderwort

/ˈwɒndəˌwɔːt/

noun

(linguistics) A loanword that has spread to many different languages, often through trade or the adoption of foreign cultural practices.

Wanderwort is a loanword that has been borrowed from one language and used in another.

意味（1）

(linguistics) A loanword that has spread to many different languages, often through trade or the adoption of foreign cultural practices.

Mrs. [Agnes Smith] Lewis has correctly observed that many corrections in the old papyri (things which no doubt the διορωτής corrected) were misinterpreted by the ancients (hence what [Adalbert] Merx calls Wanderwörte).