がいらいご

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of がいらいご – see the following entry.
【外来語】
[noun] [1895] (linguistics) a "recent" 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, “borrowing, loanword”, refers more broadly to borrowings over roughly the past half-millenium)
(This term, がいらいご (gairaigo), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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