semi-learned borrowing

English

Noun

semi-learned borrowing (plural semi-learned borrowings)

(linguistics) A word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern one, but partly reshaped based on later sound changes or by analogy with inherited words in the language. These words occur especially in the Romance and the Indo-Aryan languages (in case of the latter, specifically called semi-tatsamas).

Translations

Translations

Spanish: semicultismo m

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