xenism
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French xénisme, from Ancient Greek ξενισμός (xenismós, “strangeness, novelty”).
Noun edit
xenism (plural xenisms) (linguistics)
- A word used in utterances of a language but generally marked as foreign.
- 2013, Mari Jones, Ishtla Singh, Exploring Language Change, Taylor & Francis, published 2005, →ISBN, page 34:
- The first stage is when a word from one language is used in an utterance of another language in order to create a somewhat exotic effect. At this stage, the word is not a borrowing, but rather what they term a xenism. An example of a xenism used in an English sentence would be At the harbour, we went for a sail in a gulet, where gulet is the word for a type of Turkish sail boat, which has no real equivalent in English.
- 2020 November 30, Sergio Baldi, Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 5:
- My objective was to collect all loanwords, such that this work is as complete as possible, though some words may not be commonly used by speakers of a given language that seem to be pure Arabic xenisms (see Swahili hamsa ‘five’ < ḫamsa 841).
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Noun edit
xenism n (plural xenisme)
Declension edit
Declension of xenism
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) xenism | xenismul | (niște) xenisme | xenismele |
genitive/dative | (unui) xenism | xenismului | (unor) xenisme | xenismelor |
vocative | xenismule | xenismelor |