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Does your language has a lot of loandwords?

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Does your language has a lot of loandwords?
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>>78370762
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>>78370766
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>>78370762
no
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We have many words from occitan and italian
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>>78370762
yes, borrow from chinese
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Chinese have a lot of Japanese loanwords acutally but they were created in kangji
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Nearly all words
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>Romanian
>English
>Japanese

Wew lad
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only the most basic words of nature are purely finnish
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>>78375609

Even those are borrowed.
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>>78370762
None whatsoever
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>>78375651
nah, the finno-ugric language family has its own "unique" words
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Like only 40% is native.
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>>78375682

Can there be a more basic word of nature than metsä?

>From Proto-Baltic *medya-s and *medis (genitive *meža, also yielding *meža-s by analogy), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰi-, *medʰyo- (“middle; in-between”).
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>>78375727
well yeah because everywhere we looked it was forest so obviously only a metrosexual indoeuropean cityslicker could coin such a term
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I mean where did we loan "puu" (tree) from? nowhere, huh?
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>>78370762
too many Arabic ones
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Our whole language is loanwords, there is almost nothing Slavic left.
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idk
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We wuz moors and shiet, literally.
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>>78370762
One fifth of the romanian vocabulary is french loanwords
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>>78370762
something like this tbqh

(red - non-Slavic words, orange - apparent borrowings from other Slavic languages)
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Selice Romani, that is language spoken by gypsies in Slovak city of 2 000 people
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>>78370762
Yes, quite a few. Mainly Venetian(administrative, maritime), Turkish(emotions and food) and Latin(administrative, military and practical tools).
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Damn, dem Anglos stole quite a lot of words from us
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>>78378981
>being that stingy
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