loan meaning

English

Etymology

loan +‎ meaning. Calque of German Lehnbedeutung.

Noun

loan meaning (plural loan meanings)

(lexicography, linguistics) A meaning that has been borrowed from a word in another language, through a process of semantic loan.

Translations

Translations

Dutch: leenbetekenis f
Finnish: merkityslaina (fi)
German: Lehnbedeutung (de) f

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