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unborrowable

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ borrowable.

Adjective

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unborrowable (not comparable)

  1. Not borrowable.
    • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 163:
      This area of seemingly unborrowable words is much more extensive than is generally realized.