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loan

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See also:Loanandloạn

English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishlone,lane,fromOld Norselán,fromProto-Germanic*laihną,fromProto-Indo-European*leykʷ-(“to leave (over)”).

Cognate withIcelandiclán,Swedishlån,Danishlån,GermanLehen(“fief”),Dutchleen(“fief”),West Frisianlien,North Frisianleen(“fief; loan; office”),Scotslane,lain,len,Old Englishlǣn.More atlend.

Noun

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loan(pluralloans)

  1. (law,banking,finance)An act or instance oflending,an act or instance ofgrantingsomething fortemporaryuse.
    Synonyms:loaning,lending
    Because of theloanthat John made to me, I was able to pay my tuition for the upcoming semester.
  3. (law,banking,finance)A sum ofmoneyor otherpropertythat a natural or legal personborrowsfrom another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes withinterest).
    Synonym:principal
    Allloansfrom the library, whether books or audio material, must be returned within two weeks.
    He got aloanof five thousand pounds.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell,chapter II, inThe Mirror and the Lamp,Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      Thatthe young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporationloans.Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
  4. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
    He made a payment on hisloan.
  5. The permission toborrowany item.
    Thank you for theloanof your lawn mower.
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Terms derived fromloan(noun)
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Verb

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loan(third-person singular simple presentloans,present participleloaning,simple past and past participleloaned)

  1. (usuallyditransitive,US,datedand occasionallyproscribedinUK,informal)Tolend(something) to (someone).
    • 1820June 1, William King,Letters to James Monroe: President of the United States, from William King:
      In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his havingloanedNeilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.
    • 1992,Carlo Ginzburg,The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller,page30:
      All the rest—six out of eleven, more than half—wereloanedto him.
    • 2015,Joanne M. Flood,Wiley GAAP 2015: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles,page574:
      Upon maturity of the debt, the investment bank returns theloanedshares.
      On the date of issuance, the entity should record theloanedshares at their fair value and recognize them as an issuance cost, with an offset to additional paid-in capital.
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  • This usage, once widespread in the UK, is now confined to the US (or perhaps parts thereof). The use ofloanas a verb is occasionally disapproved of, especially when the object being lent is something other than money; as a consequence,lendis often preferred.
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Etymology 2

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FromScottish Gaeliclòn(“marshy meadow”)(comparelèana(“wet meadow, marsh, meadow”)).

Noun

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loan(pluralloans)

  1. (Scotland,Northern England)An area of uncultivated ground near a village or farmhouse.
    theLoanof Turchloy,the BlackLoan
    • 1800,Alexander Pennecuik,Lintoun Green; Or, the Third Market-day of June, 1685: A Poem, in Nine Cantos,page38:
      [...] The herds upon theloan,As if a sheep had fled, wi' speed, At Grumphy tykes hound on Wi' loud huzza!
    • 1856[1822?], Sir Walter Scott,Waverley Novels,page315:
      [...] meeting in theloanabove the house his own great plough with the six oxen, which were the pride of his heart.
    • 1871,Henry Scott Riddell,The Poetical Works of Henry Scott Riddell,page26:
      When the dews begin to fauld the flowers, and the gloaming shades draw on, When the star comes stealing through the sky, and the kye are in theloan,He whistles[…]

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Finnish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/ˈloɑn/,[ˈlo̞ɑ̝n]
  • Rhymes:-oɑn
  • Hyphenation(key):lo‧an

Noun

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loan

  1. genitivesingularofloka

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Galician

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Verb

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loan

  1. third-personpluralpresentindicativeofloar

Spanish

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Verb

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loan

  1. third-personpluralpresentindicativeofloar

Vietnamese

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Etymology 1

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Sino-Vietnameseword fromLoan.

Noun

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(classifiercon)loan

  1. (Chinesemythology)hen-phoenix
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Etymology 2

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Non-Sino-VietnamesereadingofChineseQuan(SV:quan).

This morpheme reflects of a form ofQuan(MCkwaen) descended from*k.rˤ-instead of*kˤr-.

Nohara (2023)[1]is an in-depth treatment into the lexeme "egg" in Old Chinese, presenting etymologically related pairs such asTrứng(MClwanX,“egg” ) (lateral onset, from*k.rˤ-) and𢺄( “fish egg” ) (velar onset, from*kˤr-) as evidence for complex onsets/consonant clusters in Old Chinese.

Verb

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loan

  1. (of news,chiefly in compounds)tospread
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  1. ^Nohara, Masaki. 2023. Old Chinese ‘egg’: More evidence for consonant clusters. In:Language and Linguistics24:2 (2023), pp. 325–344.

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Noun

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loan

  1. Alternative form oflhoan
    • 1867,OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:
      F. broan, eeloan, hoan,loan,sthoan, sthroan.
      E. brand, island, hand,land,stand, strand.

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland,London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page14
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