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A semantic loan is a process of borrowing semantic meaning (rather than lexical items) from another language, very similar to the formation of calques. In this case, however, 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. Calques, loanwords and semantic loans are often grouped roughly under the phrase "borrowing". Semantic loans often occur when two languages are in close contact, and they take various forms. The source and target word may be cognates, which may or may not share any contemporary meaning in common; they may be an existing loan translation or parallel construction (compound of corresponding words); or they may be unrelated words that share an existing meaning.

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Semantic loan

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A semantic loan is a process of borrowing semantic meaning (rather than lexical items) from another language, very similar to the formation of calques...

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Calque

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You're Beautiful'. Loan-translations: words are translated morpheme by morpheme, or component by component, into another language. Semantic calques (also known...

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Chinese character classification

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interpretation of pre-Han texts is the frequent occurrence of loan characters." Phono-semantic compounds (形声; 形聲; xíngshēng; 'form and sound' or 谐声; 諧聲; xiéshēng;...

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Loanword

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Hybrid word Inkhorn term Language contact Neologism Phono-semantic matching Reborrowing Semantic loan "loanword". Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2...

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Semantic field

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In linguistics, a semantic field is a lexical set of words grouped semantically (by meaning) that refers to a specific subject. The term is also used...

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Hokkien

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characters are phonetic loans (borrowed for their sound) or semantic loans (borrowed for their meaning). As example of a phonetic loan character, the word...

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Reborrowing

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Alternatively, a specific sense of a borrowed word can be reborrowed as a semantic loan; for example, English pioneer was borrowed from Middle French in the...

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Zan languages

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sizable amount of vocabulary of the other, primarily due to semantic loans, lexical loans and other areal features resulting from geographical proximity...

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LGBT symbols

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lesbianism subsequently developed. In Korea and China, "lily" is used as a semantic loan from the Japanese usage to describe female-female romance media, where...

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Neorxnawang

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Guthlac A to suggest the term originally being created simply as a semantic loan of Latin Paradisus. In a 1985 paper, Jane Roberts expounds her interpretation...

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English loanwords in Irish

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luas ("reduce your velocity"), or simply Maolaigh! ("Slow down!"). Semantic loaning occurs too with the meaning of some terms being broadened to match...

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Macanese Patois

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being semantically supplanted by Cantonese 車, with the same meaning as the Macanese term. Even the word for "money", sapeca, may be a semantic loan from...

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Lexical innovation

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lexical innovation includes the use of neologism or new meanings (so-called semantic augmentation) in order to introduce new terms into a language's lexicon...

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Chinese characters

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signs with 18%, and semantic–form and phonetic–form compounds together accounting for 19%. The remaining 58% are phono-semantic compounds. The Chinese...

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Aramaic

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especially Hebrew and Aramaic, influenced one another through loanwords and semantic loans. Hebrew words entered Jewish Aramaic. Most were mostly technical religious...

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Chinese character internal structures

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semantic-phonetic-form characters. Semantic component characters, or simply semantic characters, are composed of semantic components. Single semantic...

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Metadata

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(class, attribute) are pieces of some structural metadata having a defined semantic. The third element is a value, preferably from some controlled vocabulary...

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Tomrair

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from the Old English eorl. In regard to the title of earl, eorl is a semantic loan from the Old Norse jarl. The native Old English eorl, meaning "brave...

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Swahili language

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nouns have no prefix. Thus they do not form a coherent semantic class, though there are still semantic extensions from individual words. Class 11 (which takes...

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Chorba

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also a loan from Persian and cannot be etymologically tied to شرب šariba meaning 'to drink'. That said, it is highly likely that phono-semantic matching...

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Lexicology

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of lexicology. Since lexicology studies the meaning of words and their semantic relations, it often explores the history and development of a word. Etymologists...

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List of loanwords in Tagalog

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Spanish-derived terms underwent a process of semantic shift or change in meaning. A loanword is said to have undergone a semantic shift if its meaning in Tagalog deviates...

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Expressivity

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individuals carrying a particular genotype Expressive loan, a type of loanword in phono-semantic matching Expressive power (computer science) of a programming...

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