learnèd borrowing

plural learnèd borrowings

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of learned borrowing.

   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’;[…].

   2016, Donald N. Tuten, Enrique Pato, Ora R. Schwarzwald, “Spanish, Astur-Leonese, Navarro-Aragonese, Judaeo-Spanish”, in Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (Oxford Guides to the World’s Languages), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Individual Structural Overviews), page 392

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   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.

   1945, Word: Journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York, page 119

   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.

   1983, Yakov Malkiel, “Identification of Origin and Justification of Spread in Etymological Analysis”, in From Particular to General Linguistics: Selected Essays 1965-1978 (Studies in Language Companion Series 3), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, section L (Etymology), page 467

   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);[…].

   1988, Paul Wexler, Three Heirs to a Judeo-Latin Legacy: Judeo-Ibero-Romance, Yiddish and Rotwelsch (Mediterranean Language and Culture Monograph Series; volume 3), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 147