Is "anime" (Japanese cartoons) an English word (shortening of animation) or a Japanese one?
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Is "anime" (Japanese cartoons) an English word (shortening of animation) or a Japanese one?
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=anime&searchmode=none
Obviously it cannot be a simple Japanese word. This is either a PSM or a word borrowed from English (or possibly French - animé).
As far as I understood it's a case when the borrowing coincides with the word of the same semantics which already exists in the language.