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Can I say to coin a word from one language into another?

"Some words were coined from German in to English."
 

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I wouldn't. Words are borrowed or adopted from other languages. To coin a phrase is to come up with something new.
 

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I wouldn't. Words are borrowed or adopted from other languages. To coin a phrase is to come up with something new.

Is it the problem with "into another language"? Could I say "coined from a language"?
 

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No.

As Dave said, it's borrowed or adopted.

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I guess words can also creep into a language.
Some German words crept into English.
 

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I guess words can also creep into a language.
Some German words crept into English.


"Coventrate. Verb meaning to 'utterly destroy'. Coined from the German verb 'Coventiren'."

Would this have been written wrongfully?
 

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"Coventrate. Verb meaning to 'utterly destroy'. Coined from the German verb 'Coventiren'."

Would this have been written wrongfully?

Yes. It was derived from the German verb.

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Interesting word, coventiren. I wonder if the bombing of Coventry in 1940 (Coventry Blitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) was a rather sick pun - or maybe that event is what persuaded a German speaker to coin the word (in which case it's bitterly ironic that English took the word back and angilicized it with an '-ate' ending). . . :-? [Anyway, as has been said, coining is making up for the first time - as when a metal-worker takes a piece of metal and makes it into a coin.]

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I think to coin means to mint, to create anew.
 

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In BrE, you do hear people saying to coin a phrase when introducing or just after a cliché; it's heading towards autoantonym territory with some speakers.
 

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Nearly clicked 'Like', but it's not that simple. I like your coining - 'autoantonym', but my lip will always curl when people do that. ;-)

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Nearly clicked 'Like', but it's not that simple. I like your coining - 'autoantonym', but, to coin a phrase, my lip will always curl when people do that. ;-)

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fixed

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