pseudo-anglicism

English

Alternative forms

• pseudo-Anglicism

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ anglicism

Noun

Examples
Dutch: beamer m (“video projector”) German: Handy n (“mobile phone”) French: auto-stop m (“hitchhiking”), baby-foot m (“table football”), footing m (“jogging”) Italian: smart working m (“work from home, remote working”), baby parking m (“childcare”) Spanish: playback m (“lip-syncing”)

pseudo-anglicism (plural pseudo-anglicisms)

1. A word in a language other than English that has an English appearance but is not current in English itself. This may be, for example, because the word was borrowed from a neologism that never entered English common use, or because it was independently derived from an English word, or because it was deliberately coined to resemble English.

Related terms

• pseudo-English
• pseudo-Latinism, pseudo-latinism

Translations

word with an English appearance that is not current in English

• Bulgarian: псевдоанглицизъм m (psevdoanglicizǎm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和製英語／和制英语 (zh) (hézhì yīngyǔ) (Japanese pseudo-anglicism)

• Dutch: pseudoanglicisme
• Finnish: näennäisanglismi (fi)
• French: faux anglicisme (fr) m
• German: Pseudoanglizismus (de) m, Pseudo-Anglizismus (de) m, Scheinanglizismus (de) m
• Italian: pseudoanglicismo (it) m
• Japanese: 和製英語 (ja) (わせいえいご, wasei eigo) (Japanese pseudo-anglicism)
• Korean: 엉터리 영어 (eongteori yeong'eo)
• Luxembourgish: Schäinanglizismus m, Pseudoanglizismus m
• Occitan: anglicisme faus m, pseudo-anglicisme m
• Portuguese: pseudoanglicismo m
• Russian: псевдоанглици́зм (ru) m (psevdoanglicízm)
• Spanish: falso anglicismo m, pseudoanglicismo m
• Turkish: psödoanglisizm

See also

• Category:Pseudo-loans from English by language
• Anglicism
• Englishism
• wasei eigo

Further reading

• pseudo-anglicism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wasei-eigo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia