semi-learned borrowings

A form of semi-learned borrowing — A word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a later one, but partly reshaped based on later sound changes or by analogy with inherited words in the language. These words occur, for example, in the Romance and the Indo-Aryan languages.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of semi-learned borrowing
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