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    Eponyms are words created from proper nouns that involve a change in meaning from the original name. They refer to things named after people or thought to be named after people, like Alzheimer's disease which was discovered by Alois Alzheimer in 1907. Borrowing is when a word is adopted from one language and used in another, such as balcony, opera and violin from Italian. Calquing is translating a word from one language word-for-word into another language, like Superman from the German ubermensch. A nonce word is a word invented to describe a particular situation where no word exists yet, like jabberwocky from Lewis Carroll's poem about a made up monster.

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    Eponyms are words created from proper nouns that involve a change in meaning from the original name. They refer to things named after people or thought to be named after people, like Alzheimer's disease which was discovered by Alois Alzheimer in 1907. Borrowing is when a word is adopted from one language and used in another, such as balcony, opera and violin from Italian. Calquing is translating a word from one language word-for-word into another language, like Superman from the German ubermensch. A nonce word is a word invented to describe a particular situation where no word exists yet, like jabberwocky from Lewis Carroll's poem about a made up monster.

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    EPONYMS

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    Eponyms are words created from proper nouns that involve a change in meaning from the original name. They refer to things named after people or thought to be named after people, like Alzheimer's disease which was discovered by Alois Alzheimer in 1907. Borrowing is when a word is adopted from one language and used in another, such as balcony, opera and violin from Italian. Calquing is translating a word from one language word-for-word into another language, like Superman from the German ubermensch. A nonce word is a word invented to describe a particular situation where no word exists yet, like jabberwocky from Lewis Carroll's poem about a made up monster.

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    EPONYMS

    - Are words created from the names of real or fictitious characters. These are from proper nouns which involve
    some degree of change in the meaning of the word.

    - Refers to a person or thing after which something else is named.

    - When the name of an invention, discovery, or place is named after a person or thought to be named, it is an
    eponym.

    EXAMPLES:
    ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE - ALOIS ALZHEIMER IN 1907
    EIFFEL TOWER - ALEXANDRE GUSTAVE EIFFEL
    ADAM’S APPLE - ADAM
    SANDWICH - JOHN MONTAGU, 4TH EARL OF SANDWICH

    BORROWING

    - In linguistics, borrowing (also known as lexical borrowing) is the process by which a word from one language
    is adopted for use in another.

    - The word that is borrowed is called a borrowing, a borrowed word, or a loan word.

    EXAMPLES;
    Balcony, opera, violin, spaghetti, macaroni (Italian)
    Ketchup, dimsum, laisee (Chinese)
    Leak, stove, cruise, boss, coleslaw (Dutch)

    CALQUING
    - A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word
    in another language.
    -
    - Also called loan translation

    EXAMPLES;
    SUPERMAN - (UBERMENSCH) GERMAN
    WISDOM TOOTH - (DENS SAPIENTIAE) LATIN

    NONCE WORD
    - Nonce word (also referred to as an occasionalism), is when a person invents a new word to describe a
    particular occasion or situation for which a word doesn’t already exist.

    EXAMPLES;
    JABBERWOCK - (THE NAME OF THE FABULOUS MONSTER IN LEWIS CAROLL’S
    POEM JABBERWOCKY. IT MEANS INVENTED LANGUAGE, MEANINGLESS)
    RINGROUNDABOUT - (TO COMPLETELY SURROUND SOMETHING)
    GROK - (STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND)

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