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semantic loan
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Japanese Meaning
既に存在する単語に、他言語の意味が加えられてその範囲が拡張される現象。 / つまり、借用先の言語で既に存在する単語が、貸与言語における別の意味を新たに取り込むプロセス。
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(linguistics) 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.
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The article argued that the widening meaning of the native word was a semantic loan from English rather than a direct lexical borrowing.
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The article argued that the widening meaning of the native word was a semantic loan from English rather than a direct lexical borrowing.
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