Phono-semantic matching
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Phono-semantic matching (PSM) is a term in linguistics that refers to camouflaged borrowing in which a foreign word is matched with a phonetically and semantically similar pre-existent native word/root. It may alternatively be defined as the entry of a multisourced neologism that preserves both the meaning and the approximate sound of the parallel expression in the source language, using pre-existent words/roots of the target language.
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See also
- Hybrid word
- Calque
- Neologism
- Portmanteau
- Historical linguistics
- Mixed language
- Translation
- Lexicology
- Lexicography
- Language contact
- Creole language
- Code mixing
- Malapropism
- Internationalism
- Word formation
- Comparative linguistics
- Language transfer
- False friend
- Linguistic purism
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