English Dictionary

semantic loan

名詞

(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.

日本語の意味

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。

The article argued that the widening meaning of the native word was a semantic loan from English rather than a direct lexical borrowing.

その記事は、母語の語義が拡大したのは語彙そのものの直接借用ではなく、英語からの意味の借用であると主張していた。

意味（1）

(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.

semantic loans （ plural ）