(Ireland, Scotland) The last three days of March, supposed in Scottish and Irish folklore to have been borrowed by March from April, and to be especially stormy.

plural of false borrowing

A pseudo-loan. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false, borrowing.

Synonym of pseudo-loan

plural of pseudo-borrowing

plural of semantic borrowing

the hypernym for loan meanings, also known as semantic loans, and loan formations.

(linguistics) 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.

plural of semi-learned borrowing

Alternative form of borrowing days