Meaning of loanshift | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The situation in which a word changes or extends its meaning under the influence of another language.
   countable, uncountable
2. A word whose meaning has changed in this way.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“As linguists, anthropologists, and others involved in translation realize, the boundaries of exchange between languages are not impermeable to loanshift of meanings (Lehiste 1988:20).”

“The writer found 40 data that were categorized as Indonesian borrowing words of loanword type. However, the writer did not find any data which belong to loanshift.”

“Loan translation is the only borrowing process for loanshift.”

CEFR level