Jože Toporišič introduced the new linguistic term prevzeta beseda (loanword), a hypernym for the previously used terms izposojenka (borrowed word) and tujka (foreign word) that covered all words borrowed from foreign languages, regardless of the period of the borrowing and the language of origin. He differentiated between them based on the degree of adaptation to the systemic properties of Slovene. He disclosed elements borrowed from German on all language levels in the oldest Slovene manuscripts and works from the time of the formation of the Slovene literary language and from later periods. In the papers he wrote about the 16th century he focused his attention mainly on Primož Trubar and Adam Bohorič; he analysed the alphabet and the orthography of the 16th century Slovene literary language, the non-systemic phonological and morphological deviations, German influences on Slovene syntax and word formation and loanwords from German.
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