和製英語

Chinese
Japanese-made, often linguistic English language
trad. (和製英語) 和製 英語
simp. (和制英语) 和制 英语

Pronunciation

Noun

和製英語

  1. (linguistics) Japanese pseudo-anglicisms

See also

Japanese
Kanji in this term
和 製 英 語
わ
Grade: 3		 せい
Grade: 5		 えい
Grade: 4		 ご
Grade: 2
goon kan’on goon

Etymology

Compound of 和製(わせい) (wasei, “Japanese-made”) + 英語(えいご) (eigo, “English (language)”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) わせーえ​ーご [wàséé éꜜègò] (Nakadaka – [4])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɰᵝa̠se̞ː e̞ːɡo̞]

Noun
Examples

和(わ)製(せい)英(えい)語(ご) • (wasei eigo) 

  1. Japanese pseudo-anglicisms: Japanese coinages using English roots, the majority of have not been borrowed into English or used by anglophone countries or English native speakers, but instead only by speakers of Japanese

See also
  • Category:Japanese pseudo-loans from English
  • List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms
  • 和(わ)製(せい)外(がい)来(らい)語(ご) (wasei gairaigo, “foreign-language terms coined in Japan”)
  • 和(わ)製(せい)漢(かん)語(ご) (wasei kango, “Japanese-created Chinese/Hanzi words”)

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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