Linguistic term needed

Rory M Larson rlarson at unlnotes.unl.edu
Mon Apr 12 22:45:49 UTC 2004


Wally wrote:
> Are these also paronomasia? I've heard that the Oneidas in Wisconsin
refer
> to Swedes with the Oneida word for "sweet". And they used to refer to
> Lounsbury with their word for "lunch".

It sounds like this is even more complicated.  First they
applied paronomasia to conceptually translate the foreign
name into English, and then they calqued that English pun
into their own language.

Rory



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