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(linguistics, rare) A pseudo-loan, or sometimes specifically a lexical construction (term or phrase) made using elements from another language, but which does not exist in that language.
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The use of a symbol as a name for itself.
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(linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
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(uncountable, lexicography) The creation of new words, neologizing.
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(countable, linguistics) A created word or phrase.
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(linguistics) The understanding of one idea or conceptual domain in terms of another.
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(linguistics, etymology) The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
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A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.
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(loosely, nonstandard, by extension) A word formed from a real or fictive place or thing.
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Of a thing: named after a person or entity.
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Abbreviation of etymology. [(uncountable, linguistics) The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.]
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(philosophy, linguistics) Explanation and analysis—often considered controversial—of one or more concepts or linguistic terms by means of an exposition of their linguistic origins.
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A word constructed as a translation of a foreign word by using the etymology of the foreign word
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(countable) The origin and historical development of a word; the derivation.
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(intransitive) To introduce or develop a folk etymology.
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(linguistics, rare, in relation to the Maori language) A word that a language has borrowed from other languages. In the process, the spelling and pronunciation, and even meaning, may be altered.
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(linguistics) A word or other linguistic form borrowed from one language into another on purpose instead of through normal language contact, especially one from a classical language.
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(neologism) A word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed.
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(linguistics, lexicography) The dominant language of a pidgin or creole that serves as the basis for most of its vocabulary.
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(informal) The process of looking for new words and/or phrases.
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The naming of a person with a divine name, such as the use of Jesus as a given name in Mexico and Central America.
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A new lexeme – by native means – for an importation, that latter is any word formally containing foreign elements.
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(quite rare) A skillfully or cleverly coined new word.
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The use of metaphor generally.
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(more specifically) The art of naming things in order to influence the reactions of others.
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(linguistics) A theory that some knowledge of grammar is innate.
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Synonym of neknomination
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(lexicography) Abbreviation of neologism. [(linguistics, lexicography, countable) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase, or an existing one which has gained a new meaning.]
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(linguistics, uncountable) The act or instance of coining, or uttering a new word.
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The study or art of neologizing (creating new words).
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(rare, linguistics) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase, a neologism.
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A new word or name; a neologism.
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The coining of new terms.
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(obsolete, rare) A name.
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A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
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The conception of language as a nomenclature.
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(rare) Coinage, a monetary system.
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The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.
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The toponym of a mountain.
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(linguistics) The correct word for a concept in a specified language.
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(neologism) A newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become common; a recently created term possibly in narrow use but not yet acknowledged.
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(linguistics) A word that passed from language A into language B and thence back into language A. Such words may have changed in meaning and/or form.
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(linguistics) A new word or phrase coined for an old object or concept whose original name has become used for something else or is no longer unique.
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The process of creating retronyms; coining new words for existing concepts because the meaning of the original word has broadened.
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Alternative form of segolate [(Hebrew linguistics) Having the shape CVCVC and penultimate stress.]
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(obsolete) A proposed linguistic science based on the use of the exact significance of terms and concepts.
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An often humorous word coined to define something for which no previous word existed; a protologism.
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A person who studies systematicity.
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(linguistics) Adherence to transformational grammars.
adj
Of or relating to a translator.
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