がいらいご
外来語
1. loanword (in Japanese, esp. those of Western origin); foreign-origin wordLinguistics
2. Gairaigois Japanese for "loan word" or "borrowed word", and indicates a transliteration (or "transvocalization") into Japanese. In particular, the word usually refers to a Japanese word of foreign origin that was not borrowed from Chinese, primarily from English. Japanese also has a large number of loan words from Chinese, accounting for a sizeable fraction of the language. These words were borrowed during ancient times.
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