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semi-learned borrowings

semi-learned borrowings is the plural of semi-learned borrowing.

Meaning of semi-learned borrowing

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

Questions about semi-learned borrowings

What is semi-learned borrowings the plural of?
Semi-learned borrowings is the plural of semi-learned borrowing.

Words near semi-learned borrowings in the dictionary

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

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