Linguistic term needed

[Michael Mccafferty]

I believe the term paranomasia fits the bill. At least, that's what I call
it my work. This happens occasionally in Native America historically. I've
seen a couple of examples in the Midwest.

Michael



On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Rory M Larson wrote:

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> Does anybody have a proper linguistic term for the phenomenon
> of borrowing a word from a foreign language in such a way as to
> build a native construction that approximately chimes with the
> phonological sequence of the original?  I've been using "pun",
> but I suspect there's a more appropriate term for it.
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> Thanks!
> Rory
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