外来語

See also: 外來語 and 外来语

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外来語

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Gairaigo

Wikipedia

Kanji in this term
外	来	語
がい Grade: 2	らい Grade: 2	ご Grade: 2
kan'on	on'yomi	goon

Alternative spelling
外來語 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 外来 (gairai, “foreign”) +‎ 語 (-go, “morpheme; word; expression”).^[1] First used by Ueda Kazutoshi in 1895,^[1] likely as a calque of German Fremdwort.^[2]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) がいらいご [gàíráígó] (Heiban – [0])^[3]
• IPA^(key): [ɡa̠iɾa̠iɡo̞]

Noun

外(がい)来(らい)語(ご) • (gairaigo) ^{←ぐわいらいご (gwairaigo)?}

1. [1895] (linguistics) a "recent"^[2] loanword, a Japanese word that has been borrowed since the modernization of Japan during the Meiji era from a modern foreign language, especially a European one; compare 借用語 (shakuyōgo)

   「ググる」とは外来語(がいらいご)だ。

   “Guguru” to wa gairaigo da.

   "To google" is a recent loanword.

References

1. “外来語”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000
2. Frellesvig, Bjarke (2010) A History of the Japanese Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

• Kitahara, Yasuo, editor (2002), 明鏡国語辞典 [Meikyō Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN