Meaning of learned borrowing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of learned borrowing.
   alt-of, alternative
2. A word or other linguistic form borrowed from one language into another purposely instead of through normal language contact, especially one from a classical language.

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Examples

“His discussion is in general extensive and detailed, operating with mechanisms customarily recognized in linguistic history—sound-change, phonemic replacement (so-called “irregular” sound-change: assimilation, dissimilation, metathesis, etc.), analogy, and dialectal and learnèd borrowing.”

“Other learnèd borrowings, of peripheral importance to our problem and, for the most part, ephemeral, include umbra itself, plus derivatives in -áculo (alongside vernacular sombr-ajo, -aje—the latter through contamination with a borrowed trans-Pyrenean reflex of -āticu: ‘sombra que hace uno poniéndose delante de la luz y moviéndose de modo que estorbe al que la necesita’, cf. Sp. vent-aja: Ptg. vant-agem), -al, and -átil, quite apart from umbela, umbelífero, and penumbra.”

“Rotwelsch hebraisms which deviate from Yiddish pronunciation norms have been ascribed to distortions introduced by Christian speakers (Thiele 1843:199) or to learnèd borrowings by Christians (M.Mieses 1915:25);[…].”

“In Spanish, word-medial codas include stops and /f/, usually found in learnèd borrowings, as well as more frequent /s θ n l ɾ/: asco ‘disgust’, manta ‘blanket’;[…].”

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