pseudo-loan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A term which appears to be (and may be thought of by speakers as) a loanword from another language, even being formed from elements found in that language, but which does not exist as a word in that language with the same meaning.

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pseudo-loan pseudo-loans pseudoloan

From pseudo- + loan.

pseudo-borrowing false loan false borrowing

allogenism

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