loan: [13] Old English had a noun l?n, a close relative of the verb l?nan (precursor of modern English lend). It meant ‘gift’, but it died out before the Middle English period, and was replaced by the related Old Norse lán, which has become modern English loan. Both go back ultimately to prehistoric Indo-European *loiq-, *leiq-, *liq-, which also produced Greek leípein ‘leave’ (source of English ellipse) and Latin linquere ‘leave’ (source of English delinquent, relic, and relinquish). => delinquent, lend, relic, relinquish
loan (n.)
mid-13c., from Old Norse lan, related to lja "to lend," from Proto-Germanic *laikhwniz (cognates: Old Frisian len "thing lent," Middle Dutch lene, Dutch leen "loan, fief," Old High German lehan, German Lehn "fief, feudal tenure"), originally "to let have, to leave (to someone)," from PIE *leikw- "to leave" (see relinquish).
The Norse word also is cognate with Old English l?n "gift," which did not survive into Middle English, but its derived verb l?nan is the source of lend. As a verb, loan is attested from 1540s, perhaps earlier, and formerly was current, but has now been supplanted in England by lend, though it survives in American English.
Loan word (1874) is a translation of German Lehnwort; loan-translation is attested 1933, from German Lehnübersetzung. Slang loan shark first attested 1900.
雙語例句
1. Now is the time to touch him for a loan.
現在是向他借筆錢的時候了。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The President is also expected to request a rescheduling of loan repayments.
預計總統還會要求延長借款償還期限。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Frankly, Thomas, this question of your loan is beginning to worry me.
老實講，托馬斯，你貸款的問題開始讓我擔心了。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The survey claims loan companies prey on weak families already in debt.
這項調查聲稱信貸公司專對那些已經負債的弱勢家庭下手。
來自柯林斯例句
5. He was declared bankrupt after failing to pay a ￡114m loan guarantee.