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.”

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