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▸ noun: (linguistics) A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.
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▸ noun: (linguistics) A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.
Similar:
learned borrowing,
modification,
loanshift,
reborrowing,
semantic shift,
substitution,
semantic drift,
xenization,
conversion,
resemanticization,
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