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semi-learned borrowing

Noun

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semi-learned borrowing (plural semi-learned borrowings)

(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
Hyponym: semi-tatsama
Coordinate term: learned borrowing

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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