loanshift means the situation in which a word changes or extends its meaning under the influence of another language.
Etymology
From loan + shift.
noun
- The situation in which a word changes or extends its meaning under the influence of another language.“As linguists, anthropologists, and others involved in translation realize, the boundaries of exchange between languages are not impermeable to loanshift of meanings (Lehiste 1988:20).”
- A word whose meaning has changed in this way.
verb
- To change a word in this way.“In the contest between a Spanish word and an English word for its place in the new lexical gap (the right end of a broken line), in loan homonymy an English word wins (chanza₂) and in loanshifting a Spanish word wins (apertura, extended).”