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noun Linguistics.
1.
change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
2.
a word created by loanshift.
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Loanshift
is always a great word to know.
So is lexeme. Does it mean:
| a unit within a language, such as a word or base; vocabulary item |
| a mark (?) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ?, ?, ?, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic |
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