semantic loans

A form of semantic loan — A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of semantic loan
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