English Dictionary

Hobson-Jobsonism

名詞

可算名詞

(linguistics, countable) A word or phrase borrowed by one language from another and modified in pronunciation to fit the set of sounds the borrowing language typically uses.

日本語の意味

異なる言語から借用された単語やフレーズが、その言語特有の音韻体系に合わせて発音・形態が変化する現象。

The historian argued that Hobson-Jobsonism explains how colonial administrators adapted local place names into familiar forms.

その歴史家は、借用語の音韻適応が、植民地の行政官たちが地名を自国語になじむ形に変えた理由を説明すると主張した。

意味（1）

(linguistics, countable) A word or phrase borrowed by one language from another and modified in pronunciation to fit the set of sounds the borrowing language typically uses.

One final set of terms of interest are Hobson-Jobsonisms, that is, loanwords that have undergone phonetic assimilation through what is described as ‘striving after meaning’, a term introduced by Yule.

Hobson-Jobsonisms （ plural ）