Language Alpha went to see the historical linguists to get a wider overview about his changes. The historical linguists asked a lot of questions and tried to put Alpha’s elements into categories: cognates, loanwords, foreign words and calques. Alpha gave a list of words to the linguists, but he was in trouble with categorizing them. He collected three words for each category.

Here is the list:

Music, world view, cafè, father, by heart, magazine, déjà vu, night, daughter, joy, mea culpa, flea market.

Put the words into categories. Write your answer in the comments!

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