What are loans

In this video I will explain another of the methods that our language has to increase its lexicon, the loans.

Loans They are all the words that the Spanish lexicon has taken from other foreign languages ​​in past and recent times. The reasons can be economic, political, social, etc. or by necessity since we lack a term to designate something.

Terminology: Be careful not to confuse loan and neologism

Classification:

• Origin Anglicisms, Arabisms, Lusisms, Italianisms, etc.
• Seniority: Loans historical (pre-Roman substratum, cultisms, Germanisms, Arabisms) and loans recent / neologisms(Anglicisms, Gallicisms).

Form of incorporation into the language Traces and Xenisms

In the video we will also see the complete table with examples, like this one:

And I will show you where to find and look for these kinds of words.

Also, if you want to check if you have understood what was explained in today's lesson, you can do the printable exercises with their solutions that I have left you on the web.