Is using letters from one alphabet to use in another called "adopting" or "borrowing"?

Just ask your language/linguistics question! You'll receive other info at that time.

Words are "borrowed", not letters.

Not according to this:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-from-greek-alphabet-letter
https://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/thorn.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=z00QBOsUgcsC&pg=PA1573&lpg=PA1573&dq=borrow+letters+from+one+alphabet+to+another&source=bl&ots=sgHBB-dZPt&sig=ACfU3U0fA-I-uXerrpPyjY_PBK-wUFllFA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF7I7_77DkAhWBg-AKHcZRC_sQ6AEwGnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=borrow%20letters%20from%20one%20alphabet%20to%20another&f=false

קאָ-אַפּט

I don't understand Hebrew. What did you post?

highlight the word, right click, choose "search Google" and when it takes you to google, type the word "translate" after that.

I figured that out all on my own in about 2 seconds.

It would be easier to copy and paste that word into a Hebrew to English translator.

That person posted "co-opt" in Hebrew.

You are working awfully hard to start an argument over something that does not need to be argued about.

Your webpage that discusses the letter "Þ" refers to the "borrowing" of alphabets, e.g. "the Greek alphabet had been borrowed from the Phoenician or another North Semitic alphabet in the 10th century BCE."

It could be ether or both or coincidence. Examples, please?

Did you look at ALL the links I posted?

From this one:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-from-greek-alphabet-letter :

"Going Greek: 7 Words from the Greek Alphabet
We borrowed another language's letters to create these English words."

From https://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/thorn.html :

"2.4 Etruscan to Latin The Romans borrowed their script from the Etruscans in about the 6th century BCE....

2.8 Borrowing from Greek. The first basic letters added to the Latin alphabet were borrowed from a foreign alphabet....
2.9 Borrowing from the English fuþorc. The next basic letter added to the Latin alphabet was also borrowed from a foreign alphabet.....

4.0 Recommendations.
ÞORN is a basic letter borrowed into Latin from a foreign alphabet, ..."

From https://books.google.com/books?id=z00QBOsUgcsC&pg=PA1573&lpg=PA1573&dq=borrow+letters+from+one+alphabet+to+another&source=bl&ots=sgHBB-dZPt&sig=ACfU3U0fA-I-uXerrpPyjY_PBK-wUFllFA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF7I7_77DkAhWBg-AKHcZRC_sQ6AEwGnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=borrow%20letters%20from%20one%20alphabet%20to%20another&f=false :

"Borrowing letters from other alphabets, ..."

I'm not trying to incite an argument. What are you talking about?

Is it just me, or is anybody else champing at the bit of this cart before the horse conundrum.

Will this prickly problem of precisely portraying a word for adopt, borrow, co-opt, absorb, embrace or incorporate a letter (or the whole alfalfabet) ever be solved?



Will this anticipatory excitement be better than or equal to the real thing?

Will the ultimate question be how to pronounce a Japanese cartoon dog rapper's name? Lap dog or rap dog, kanji dig it?

Howl on will this be going on?

Finding the appropriate word should be so difficult.

Your links look like you've found the answer, you've posted numerous examples of people using borrowed, so why don't you use that and not bother with what people on this thread have to say about it.