từ ngoại lai

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Vietnamese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

từ ngoại lai

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