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phono-semantic matching

noun

Etymology

Coined by Ghil'ad Zuckermann in 1999.

Definitions

  1. The borrowing of a word into one language from another which completely or partially…

    The borrowing of a word into one language from another which completely or partially preserves both the original sound and meaning but does so via substitution of etymons.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phono-semantic matching. 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