Loanwords / compound words / Joyceanisms

‘Proteus’ is an episode of edge cases. Today’s dilemma: loanwords.

As the cockle pickers pass Stephen on their way from the shore-line, he thinks to himself:

She trudges, schlepps, trains, drags, trascines her load. (U 3.392–93; my emphasis)

How would we encode this multilingual description in which translations for the verb ‘to drag’ from Yiddish / German (shlepn / schleppen), French (traîner), and Italian (trascinare) have been ‘Englished’ or anglicized† in Stephen’s interior monologue?

† OED has intr. to coin an English word by borrowing from another language (rare).

None of these non-standard words is italicized in the reading text so we’d put an @rend="none" attribute on our tag. But what element does the Guidelines suggest for loanwords? <foreign> is clearly out of place, since Stephen is borrowing from non-English languages into English (he applies English verb conjugation to his borrowed verb forms). Cf., in this vein:

Number one swung lourdily her midwife’s bag (U 3.32; my emphasis)

I’m sure this phenomenon is not limited to ‘Proteus’ or to Stephen’s interior monologue. If we start to encounter it all over the corpus, it might be worth marking up.