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loanshifting

loanshifting is the present participle and gerund of loanshift.

Meaning of loanshift

Verb

loanshift (third-person singular simple present loanshifts, present participle loanshifting, simple past and past participle loanshifted)

  1. To change a word in this way.
    • In the contest between a Spanish word and an English word for its place in the new lexical gap (the right end of a broken line), in loan homonymy an English word wins (chanza₂) and in loanshifting a Spanish word wins (apertura, extended).1972, Anthony F. Beltramo, Lexical and Morphological Aspects of Linguistic Acculturation by Mexican Americans in San José, California, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University, →OCLC, page 125

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Questions about loanshifting

What is loanshifting the present participle and gerund of?
Loanshifting is the present participle and gerund of loanshift.

Words near loanshifting in the dictionary

  1. loansharked
  2. loansharking
  3. loansharks
  4. loanshift
  5. loanshifted
  6. loanshifting
  7. loanshifts
  8. loanword
  9. loanwords
  10. loanworthy
  11. Loar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loanshifting (page history and authors); loanshift (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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