loanshift
Definition: A change in a word's meaning that results from the influence of another language.
Example: This example is from the OED: "French réaliser ‘to bring into existence’ has … undergone a shift of meaning to ‘become aware’, under the influence of the English realise. Such a process of reinterpretation is known as a loan-shift, and its result as a calque." (Source: 1974, R. A. Hall External Hist. Romance Lang. 9)
Oxford English Dictionary: The term's first OED citation is from 1950: "*Loanshifts in general occur most readily when there is both phonetic and semantic resemblance between foreign and native terms."
(Language, XXVI. 220)



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