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The aim of this article is to present the principal categories of lexical borrowings, traditionally accepted in diachronic linguistics. The presentation of this classification leads towards the acknowledgment of a category of lexical borrowings that should be treated separately, namely the lexicalizing borrowings (Fr. emprunts lexicalisants, PL. zapożyczenia leksykalizujące, Es. préstamos lexicalizantes). The examples which are used in this article come among others from: Catalan, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portugese and Spanish.