xenism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A word used in utterances of a language but generally marked as foreign.
    — The first stage is when a word from one language is used in an utterance of another language in order to create a somewhat exotic effect. At this stage, the word is not a borrowing, but rather what they term a xenism. An example of a xenism used in an English sentence would be At the harbour, we went for a sail in a gulet, where gulet is the word for a type of Turkish sail boat, which has no real equivalent in English.

词形变化

xenisms plural

词源

Borrowed from French xénisme, from Ancient Greek ξενισμός (xenismós, “strangeness, novelty”).
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