phono-semantic matching

noun

phono-semantic matching

noun

Etymology Coined by Ghil'ad Zuckermann in 1999.

1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Usually The borrowing of a word into one language from another which completely or partially preserves both the original sound and meaning but does so via substitution of etymons.

Related terms
loanword, unadapted borrowing

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