| 释义 |
reborrowing, vbl. n.|riːˈbɒrəʊɪŋ|
[f. reborrow v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. reborrow (esp. in Philol.); also, that which is reborrowed.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 221 Pay off and create in lieu of reborrowing. 1933L. Bloomfield Language xxv. 452 The same re-borrowing of this last word appears in Old English. 1953K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. Early Brit. ii. 332 Förster notes that the AS. form of Nene is spelt five times in Peterborough documents as Nyn, and regards this as a re-borrowing. 1979Amer. Speech LIV. 29 Of the 6 pure reborrowings, 4 are from cent: Indonesian sen, Samoan sene, Tongan seniti, and Swahili senti. |