# phono-semantic matching

> linguistic borrowing in which the sound and meaning of a foreign word are adjusted to match existing phonetic and semantic elements in the target language

**Wikidata**: [Q1128781](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1128781)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/phono-semantic-matching