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In a similar vein, the French for sauerkraut (sour + cabbage) is choucroute (cabbage + crust/snack), the lexical swap, presumably, being motivated by the phonetic similarities.<BR>
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If a name doesn't already exist for this kind of motivation, then one ought to be invented... A paraphone, perhaps? (Or maybe interphone would be more appropriate ;-)<BR>
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Ivan Birks<BR>
Paris X Nanterre<BR>
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<B>De : </B>"Robert R. Ratcliffe" <ratcliffe@tufs.ac.jp><BR>
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<B>Date : </B>Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:03:50 EST<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>I've recently had my attention draw to a process in borrowing and I wonder if there is a name for it: <BR>
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When a concept is borrowed, rather than borrowing the word, or calquing it, a word which sounds similar to the original with related semantics is extended, or a compound is made which sounds close to the original and is semantically plausible. <BR>
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For example "index" becomes in Chinese inde (formed from /in/ "pull", /de/ "find") [source: student paper, so correct me if I'm wrong.] <BR>
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This is very common in East Asian languages, I believe. But I've come across examples elsewhere. For example in Morocco the Arabic word /silk/ "thread" is used to translate the Frence "cycle" /sikl/ as an academic term, rather than the usual Arabic word for cycle /daura/. <BR>
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It is sort of the opposite of a calque-- in the sense of borrowing the sound without the meaning-- but I don't know what to call it. By the way does anyone have other examples? <BR>
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Robert R. Ratcliffe <BR>
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Tokyo University of Foreign Studies <BR>
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