Sino-Xenic

[Benjamin Barrett]

Neither the Oxford nor the AHD website has the word "Sino-Xenic," a term useful for referring to words borrowed systemically from Chinese. 

Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sino-Xenic) and Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Xenic_pronunciations) list this word. Wikipedia says it was coined in 1953 by Samuel E. Martin.

This use of "-xenic" seems useful for other borrowing systems. Anglo-xenic could be used for English borrowed into Japanese, for example, as there are fairly rigid rules for doing so (though exceptions such as "nonsense" exist).

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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