Yeah! I’ so confused reading some of these comments.
Isn’t “loan” to lend money,
and “borrow” to receive money?
Do some locales use “loan” as both?
some (most?) languages have a single bidirectional word
In Swedish for example, “att låna” is ”to borrow”, and ”att låna ut” is ”to lend” (”to loan out”).
German leihen is loan, while verleihen is lend.
The "ver" is akin to "away", i.e., "loan away" (though this isn't a 1:1 translation and only works for one of the meanings on both sides of the language barrier).
In Haitian creole, if the main object of the verbe “prete” is a person, it means loan, and the second object says what. If it’s only one non person object, it means borrow.
No, you’re right. Probably English is not their first language.
Sorry, yes. I wrote that mess. I'm swedish, we use the same word for both sides of the transaction. "Låna" - very obviously related to the english "loan". It didn't occur to me that there is a directionality to the English term.