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semi-learned borrowing

semi-learned borrowing noun: 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.

Noun

semi-learned borrowing (plural semi-learned borrowings)

  1. 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.
    • Canónigo 'canon' , a semi-learned borrowing from L. canonicus, still shows the suffix -icus with almost no change.1960, Paul M. Lloyd, A Linguistic Analysis of Old Spanish Occupational Terms, page 102
    • Chotzen goes on to consider the possibility of a borrowing from the plural clerc/clers or even a late semi-learned borrowing from clerus.1996, Huw M. Edwards, Dafydd Ap Gwilym: Influences and Analogues, page 1

semi-learned borrowing meaning in Hindi

semi-learned borrowing in Hindi

Translations
अर्धतत्सम ardhatatsam

Synonyms of semi-learned borrowing

Forms of semi-learned borrowing

pluralsemi-learned borrowings

Questions about semi-learned borrowing

What does semi-learned borrowing mean?
Semi-learned borrowing means 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.
What is semi-learned borrowing in Hindi?
Semi-learned borrowing in Hindi is अर्धतत्सम (ardhatatsam). See Semi-learned borrowing meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is semi-learned borrowing?
Semi-learned borrowing is a noun.
What is the plural of semi-learned borrowing?
The plural of semi-learned borrowing is semi-learned borrowings.

Words near semi-learned borrowing in the dictionary

  1. semi-isotropic
  2. semi-jet-borne
  3. semi-jetborne
  4. semi-Jewish
  5. semi-jocular
  6. semi-learned borrowing
  7. semi-learned borrowings
  8. semi-learned loan
  9. semi-learned loans
  10. semi-learned loanword
  11. semi-learned loanwords

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