semi-learned borrowing (English, noun)
expansion: semi-learned borrowing (plural semi-learned borrowings)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
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glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: semi-learned borrowings
tags: plural