semantic loan

semantic loan

English

Examples
French souris from English mouse (“computer mouse”) German realisieren or Italian realizzare from English realize (“to become aware”)

Noun

semantic loan (plural semantic loans)

1. (linguistics) 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.

   Synonym: semantic calque

Translations

Translations

Danish: betydningslån n Finnish: merkityslaina German: Bedeutungsentlehnung f

Greek: σημασιολογικό δάνειο (el) n (simasiologikó dáneio) Russian: семанти́ческая ка́лька f (semantíčeskaja kálʹka)

See also

• calque
• loan translation
• loanword

Further reading

• semantic loan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• semantic calque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia