📚 noun • entry_id 61122
semi-learned borrowing
Meanings (ES + gloss)
semicultismo
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.
Canónigo 'canon' , a semi-learned borrowing from L. canonicus, still shows the suffix -icus with almost no change.
Chotzen goes on to consider the possibility of a borrowing from the plural clerc/clers or even a late semi-learned borrowing from clerus.
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