loan-blend

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Noun loan-blend has 1 sense

loanblend, loan-blend, hybrid - a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
--₁ is a kind of word

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Loan-blend

Part of Speech: Noun, Verb

Definition:

(Noun) A word formed by combining elements from two or more different languages.
(Verb) To create or use a word by combining elements from different languages.

Examples:

As a Noun:

English has many loan-blends derived from Latin, such as "television" (tele- + vision) and "automobile" (auto- + mobile).

As a Verb:

She loan-blended the word "brunch" by combining "breakfast" and "lunch".

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