reborrowing

reborrowing (plural reborrowings)

1. (linguistics) A word that passed from language A into language B and thence back into language A. Such words may have changed in meaning and/or form.
   • 1990, John Ayto, “flan”, in Dictionary of Word Origins, New York: Arcade, →ISBN, page 230:

     The word flan itself is a relatively recent addition to English, adopted on our behalf from French by the chef Alexis Soyer (a Frenchman working in England), but in that form it is in fact simply a reborrowing of a word which originally crossed the Channel in the 13th century as flawn, denoting some sort of custard tart or cheesecake.

2. Something reborrowed.
   • 2020, John Gilligan, Mike Wright, Private Equity Demystified, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 214:

     The borrower will usually argue that the accordion should be considered as a reborrowing of debt already repaid, and therefore should be a redraw of tranche A first.

• borrowing
• twice-borrowed

• Category:English terms borrowed back into English

reborrowing

1. present participle and gerund of reborrow

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