reborrowed

Took another loan

Reborrowed describes a word that has traveled between languages more than once.

English borrowed *warranty* from Norman French, which had earlier borrowed it from Germanic.

When English later borrowed the French form *guarantee*, it reborrowed a word that had originated in its own ancestor language.

Many English words have been reborrowed from Latin, French, or other languages that had previously taken them from Old English or Germanic sources.

linguistics

loanword

Imported vocabulary item

loan translation · lexicon · neologism · anglicism · back-formation · doublet · false friend · adaptation · reintroduction · transliteration

finance

loan

Borrowed money repaid later

interest · repayment · principal · collateral · mortgage · default · leverage · capital · underwriting · amortization

renewal

revival

Return after decline

reemergence · rediscovery · restoration · reclamation · recycling · repurposing · comeback · resurgence · recirculation · reuse

Opposites
ownership vs. borrowing

reborrowedpurchased

Acquired through payment

bought · owned · kept · retained · possessed

borrowing sequence

reborrowedreturned

Went back again

given back · lent · repaid

Family

reborrow

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