phono-semantic matching
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[edit]Noun
[edit]phono-semantic matching (usually uncountable, plural phono-semantic matchings)
- (linguistics) The borrowing of a word into one language from another which completely or partially preserves both the original sound and meaning but does so via substitution of etymons.
Translations
[edit]borrowing
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