semi-learned borrowing
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
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.
Example Sentences
- "Canónigo 'canon' , a semi-learned borrowing from L. canonicus, still shows the suffix -icus with almost no change."
- "Chotzen goes on to consider the possibility of a borrowing from the plural clerc/clers or even a late semi-learned borrowing from clerus."
- "The father of Brân and Manawydan is himself often given the epithet Llediaith 'Half-speech': as Rachel Bromwich has observed, 'if Manawydan fab Llŷr is indeed to be regarded as a creation based on a semi-learned borrowing from Ireland to Wales, one is tempted to connect Llŷr's epithet lledieith with his foreign origin'."
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Semi-learned borrowings by language
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Semi-learned borrowings by language
learned borrowing