semi-learned borrowing

English

Noun

semi-learned borrowing (plural semi-learned borrowings)

1. (linguistics) A word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a later one, but partly reshaped based on later sound changes or by analogy with inherited words in the language. These words occur, for example, in the Romance and the Indo-Aryan languages.

   Synonyms: semi-learned loanword, semi-learned loan

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: semicultismo m

See also

• learned borrowing
• semi-tatsama
• Semi-learned borrowings by language