semantic loan

noun

semantic loan

noun
1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.

Related terms
loan meaning, calque, loan translation, loanword

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