Template:orthographic borrowing

Orthographic borrowing from translingual term

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This template is used to format the etymology of orthographic borrowings. Please only use it under the heading Etymology.

This template adds a category like Category:Chinese orthographic borrowings from Japanese, under the categories added by {{borrowed}}. Category pages for this template are created by {{auto cat}}.

When to use

This template is intended specifically for loans from language A into language B, which are loaned only in its script form and not pronunciation and often become new words which are phonetically quite dissimilar. Examples include:

Recipient language	Recipient word	Donor language	Donor word
Chinese	取消とりけし (qǔxiāo, “to cancel”)	Japanese	取と(と)り消けし(け)す (torikesu, “to cancel”)
Korean	할인 (割引わりびき, harin, “discount”)	Japanese	割わり(わり)引(びき) (waribiki, “discount”)
Korean	엽서 (葉書はがき, yeopseo, “postcard”)	Japanese	葉は(は)書しょ(がき) (hagaki, “postcard”)
Vietnamese	Nga La Tư (俄にわか羅ら斯, “Russia”)	Chinese	俄にわか羅ら斯／俄にわか罗斯 (Éluósī, “Russia”)

Parameters

Same as {{borrowed}}, with an extra |nocap=1 parameter if the leading "O" should be "o" and an extra |notext=1 parameter to suppress the initial text entirely.

Examples

{{obor|zh|ja|-}} {{ja-r|取とり消けす|とりけす|to cancel}} (in the entry for the Chinese word 取消とりけし (qǔxiāo)) produces

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 取と(と)り消けし(け)す (torikesu, “to cancel”)

See also

• {{borrowed}}
• {{learned borrowing}}
• {{semantic loan}}
• {{semi-learned borrowing}}
• {{unadapted borrowing}}