Reborrowing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Reborrowing is a noun meaning Something reborrowed.
Meaning
Something reborrowed.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of reborrow
- (linguistics) A word that passed from language A into language B and thence back into language A. Such words may have changed in meaning and/or form.
Example Sentences
The borrower will usually argue that the accordion should be considered as a reborrowing of debt already repaid, and therefore should be a redraw of tranche A first.
The word flan itself is a relatively recent addition to English, adopted on our behalf from French by the chef Alexis Soyer (a Frenchman working in England), but in that form it is in fact simply a reborrowing of a word which originally crossed the Channel in the 13th century as flawn, denoting some sort of custard tart or cheesecake.
Word Forms
- reborrowings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include modification, loanshift, reloan, xenization, transflection, retransitivization.
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