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

   Hypernym: semantic borrowing

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: اِقْتِرَاض مَعْنَوِيّ m (iqtirāḍ maʕnawiyy)
• Danish: betydningslån n
• Dutch: betekenisontlening f
• Finnish: merkityslaina (fi)
• German: Bedeutungsentlehnung f
• Greek: σημασιολογικό δάνειο (el) n (simasiologikó dáneio)
• Polish: kalka znaczeniowa f
• Russian: семанти́ческая ка́лька f (semantíčeskaja kálʹka)

See also

• loan meaning
• calque
• loan translation
• loanword

Further reading

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