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loanblend - a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)

word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"

Latin - any dialect of the language of ancient Rome

Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic - a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil

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The topics include digital processing of Bulgarian dialects: new synchronic and diachronic approaches, Anglijskij is from Anglija but francuzskij is from francuz: how Slavic derives language names, the collapse of the common Slavic tense system as a catastrophe in the development of the Slavic aspectual category, the fourth velar palatalization in Ukrainian: the northern dialects, demography and language activity in the history of the Slavic north, and English loanblend [N[N]] constructions in Bulgarian and Macedonian: a comparison.

American Contributions to the 16th International Congress of Slavists; Volume 1: Linguistics

Peer-reviewed and selected, 12 papers consider such topics as obscure versus transparent cognates in linguistic reconstructions, the sources of relative clauses, concerning myself, markers of the spirit world in Oceanic languages, the smuggled budgie as a case study study of an Australian loanblend, and archaisms in placenames in Arabana-Wangkangurru country.

Lexical and structural etymology; beyond word histories

Morphology in language contact: verbal loanblend formation in Asia Minor Greek (Aivaliot).

Gender and inflection class in loan noun integration

Words undergoing partial substitutions are known as "hybrid loans" or "loanblends" (Haugen 1950), which are characterised by the merger and re-combination of morphological material retrieved from both the source and the recipient language.

Anglicismos en la terminologia del fandom musical: el uso idiosincratico de sustantivos autoreferenciales en el lenguaje juvenil