Download the app
educalingo
loanshift

Meaning of "loanshift" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF LOANSHIFT

ˈləʊnˌʃɪft


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOANSHIFT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Loanshift is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LOANSHIFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of loanshift in the English dictionary

The definition of loanshift in the dictionary is a meaning change in a word caused by the influence of another language.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LOANSHIFT

blueshift · downshift · frameshift · gearshift · kerchiefed · makeshift · manshift · rankshift · redshift · shift · unshift · upshift

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOANSHIFT

loan agreement · loan capital · loan collection · Loan Council · loan guarantee · loan investment · loan office · loan officer · loan repayment · loan shark · loan translation · loan word · loan-to-value · loanable · loanback · Loanda · loanee · loaner · loaning · loath

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOANSHIFT

back shift · consonant shift · day shift · Doppler shift · Einstein shift · function shift · graveyard shift · Great Vowel Shift · Lamb shift · night shift · paradigm shift · scene shift · sound shift · split shift · stick shift · swing shift · vowel shift · whift

Synonyms and antonyms of loanshift in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «loanshift» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF LOANSHIFT

Find out the translation of loanshift to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of loanshift from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «loanshift» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

loanshift
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

loanshift
570 millions of speakers
en

English

loanshift
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

loanshift
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

loanshift
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

loanshift
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

loanshift
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

loanshift
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

loanshift
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pinjamanhift
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

loanshift
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

loanshift
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

loanshift
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Loanshift
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

loanshift
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

loanshift
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Loanhift
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

loanshift
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

loanshift
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

loanshift
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

loanshift
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

loanshift
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

loanshift
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

loanshift
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

loanshift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

loanshift
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of loanshift

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOANSHIFT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of loanshift
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «loanshift».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about loanshift

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOANSHIFT»

Discover the use of loanshift in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to loanshift and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Bilingualism: Basic Principles
The third classification for a transferred lexical item is that of loanshift in which morphemic substitution occurs without any importation from the donor language. Loanshifts are alternatively known as loan translations or caiques. The English ...
Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, 1986
2
Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism
A second type of borrowing, called a loanshift, consists in either taking a word in the base language and extending its meaning to correspond to that of a word in the other language or of rearranging words in the base language along a pattern  ...
François Grosjean, 1982
3
English Words: Structure, History, Usage
By contrast, a loanshift involves taking on board the meaning represented by a word in a foreign language, but not the word-form itself. Loanshifts are also called LOAN TRANSLATIONS or CALQUES. (The 'calque' metaphor comes from fine ...
Francis Katamba, 2005
4
Jordanian Arabic between Diglossia and Bilingualism: ...
Loanshift Extensions The process of lexical borrowing from English involves the substitution of native morphemes for those of the model. Sa'id (1964: 100) reports that since the native morpheme already has a meaning of its own, this process ...
Salah M. Suleiman, 1985
5
Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Contact and Diversity
Furthermore, only some authors adhere to a distinction between “semantic extension” or “loanshift” for modeling in ... Appel—Muysken (1987: 165) regard both “loan translation” and “calque” as interchangeable with “loanshift”; and so do ...
Ana Roca, John M. Lipski, 1999
6
Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication
Loanshif t : When a lexeme of a second language is translated by the redistribution of morphemes already found in the native language in a contact situation, this can be defined as a loanshift. In short, it is a substitution of native material in the ...
Susumu Nagara, 1966
7
Rediscovering Interlanguage
This categorization, which leads us to a discussion of units and equivalence in terms addressed above, reveals that each category has both a formal and a semantic aspect with the exception of (4), loanshift, for which no new forms are found in ...
Larry Selinker, 2013
8
Texas Studies in Bilingualism: Spanish, French, German, ...
G Translation: ...we sold the beams, you see (FH: Yes) — and —— so on. In (12) the E signal is for instance, a marker of exemplification. It alternates with Sw till exempel and with the loanshift for exempel. All three signals are infrequent in the  ...
Glenn G. Gilbert, 1970
9
The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism
A second type of borrowing, called a loanshift, consists in either taking a word in the base language and extending its meaning to correspond to that of a word in the other language, or rearranging words in the base language along a pattern ...
Francois Grosjean, Ping Li, 2012
10
Studies by Einar Haugen: Presented on the Occasion of his ...
Whatever the terms used, the dichotomy is important, as stated above, and the reviewer'S distinction between loanword and loanshift corresponds closely to Betz's between Lehnwort and Lehnpragung. This is preferable to the usual division ...
Evelyn S. Firchow, 1972
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Loanshift [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/loanshift>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
EN