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loanshift

noun

Etymology

From loan + shift.

  1. derived from *skey-✻ — “to cut, divide, separate, part”
  2. derived from *skeyb-✻ — “to separate, divide, part”
  3. inherited from *skiftijaną✻
  4. inherited from sċiftan — “to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”
  5. inherited from schiften
  6. inherited from schyft
  7. compounded as loanshift — “loan + shift”

Definitions

  1. The situation in which a word changes or extends its meaning under the influence of…

    The situation in which a word changes or extends its meaning under the influence of another language.

    • 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.

  2. A word whose meaning has changed in this way.

  3. To change a word in this way.

    • In the contest between a Spanish word and an English word for its place in the new lexical gap (the right end of a broken line), in loan homonymy an English word wins (chanza₂) and in loanshifting a Spanish word wins (apertura, extended).
    • Early French and English explorers and settlers had never seen a bison before, and thus lacked a proper term for it. So they borrowed—or loanshifted—the name of an animal already familiar to them: buffalo.
    • The loanshifted category appears first as an innovation, becomes entrenched and may be conventionalized with meaning(s) specific to recipient culture.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for loanshift. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA