coin from one language

[ostap77]

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

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

 

[SoothingDave]

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

 

[ostap77]

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"?

 

[Rover_KE]

No.

As Dave said, it's borrowed or adopted.

Rover

 

[Verona_82]

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

 

[ostap77]

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?

 

[Rover_KE]

"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.

Rover

 

[BobK]

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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[konungursvia]

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

 

[Tdol]

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.

 

[BobK]

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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[freezeframe]

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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