Trends of foreign-origin words in your mother tongue

[Martinus]

This is not another thread about words in your language that come from another language, but an attempt to see trends, e.g. groups of words or words associated with some form of human activity originating from another language. Is this recognizable in your language too?

In Polish, these are the most common foreign language influences, with the main "areas of expertise":

- English - all kinds of modern words from different areas, ranging from science, technology, popular culture and politics;
- Arabic - science, warfare and anything to do with Islam;
- French - fashion, warfare, food;
- German - law, construction, industry, crafts, politics, administration, city planning;
- Hebraic - religion, mysticism, food;
- Greek - science;
- Hungarian - warfare;
- Italian - food, music, art;
- Latin - law, administration, religion, science; and
- Turkish - warfare.

[Viking]

Icelandic purged foreign origin words a century ago (basically the one we don't find in the sagas). Concepts that lack words have icelandic words invented for them.

[Liep]

Are there rules for the invented words? Do they have to rely on older words? Morphology is the word I'm looking for, I think.

[Josquius]

Icelandic purged foreign origin words a century ago (basically the one we don't find in the sagas). Concepts that lack words have icelandic words invented for them.

Always struck me as curious that.
How did they get rural farmers to agree that the thing they had formerly always known as X was now Y and X was a forbidden foreign word?

[DGuller]

When I visit my dad, and watch Russian TV channels, I'm surprised by how many English words are used in Russian language, lifted straight out.  There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.  This has to be a fairly recent phenomenon with a lot of them.

[Liep]

I love the russification of English. Айфон, бойфренд, бёздей.

[Valmy]

Icelandic purged foreign origin words a century ago (basically the one we don't find in the sagas). Concepts that lack words have icelandic words invented for them.

Always struck me as curious that.
How did they get rural farmers to agree that the thing they had formerly always known as X was now Y and X was a forbidden foreign word?

Well there are only about 400,000 speakers right?  So there probably were not that many rural farmers they needed to get onboard.

[Valmy]

I love the russification of English. Айфон, бойфренд, бёздей.

Do you mean the Englishification or Russian?  Granted we probably have thousands of Russian words in English, we have thousands of every other language's words.

[Martinus]

Two new Polish words are "tweetować" and "lajkować".

Any guesses what they mean?

[DGuller]

Tech word borrowing I can understand.  The technology originated in the English-speaking country after all.  Words like "boyfriend", on the other hand, have already existed in the Russian language, so in those cases it just looks like an inferior culture borrowing from a superior culture.

[Martinus]

Tech word borrowing I can understand.  The technology originated in the English-speaking country after all.  Words like "boyfriend", on the other hand, have already existed in the Russian language, so in those cases it just looks like an inferior culture borrowing from a superior culture.

True. I heard words like "to kiss" have also been borrowed in Russian (e.g. "kissovat") which sounds very weird.

Could it be that Russia is so illiberal/obscurantist that young people develop their own slang, to be able to talk freely? Sorta like polari in anti-gay Britain.

[Viking]

Icelandic purged foreign origin words a century ago (basically the one we don't find in the sagas). Concepts that lack words have icelandic words invented for them.

Always struck me as curious that.
How did they get rural farmers to agree that the thing they had formerly always known as X was now Y and X was a forbidden foreign word?

We had a language council. They operated on the principle that if the word was in the sagas it was genuine. Icelandic nationalism was centered on the language, so our nationalist leaders were either linguists or well versed in the subject.

[Viking]

Icelandic purged foreign origin words a century ago (basically the one we don't find in the sagas). Concepts that lack words have icelandic words invented for them.

Always struck me as curious that.
How did they get rural farmers to agree that the thing they had formerly always known as X was now Y and X was a forbidden foreign word?

Well there are only about 400,000 speakers right?  So there probably were not that many rural farmers they needed to get onboard.

300,000

but much fewer in the 1890s

[Razgovory]

Tech word borrowing I can understand.  The technology originated in the English-speaking country after all.  Words like "boyfriend", on the other hand, have already existed in the Russian language, so in those cases it just looks like an inferior culture borrowing from a superior culture.

Well that is sorta what is happening.  English borrows from other languages so often that it's often not not known that a new word is borrowed or from where.

[Legbiter]

English borrows from other languages so often that it's often not not known that a new word is borrowed or from where.

English roughs up other languages to see if they have any spare words.