Polysemy of loanwords (as an example of the originally Arabic lexical units)

Abstract

Language lexical system is the most vulnerable for loanwords as this is the regular means to enlarge vocabulary. Getting into a new language environment, a loanword used to be adopted by all possible means - from phonetics to syntax - and inevitably obtains a number of new meanings. Thus it makes a full-featured language unit.

Keywords

• заимствование
• исконная лексика
• многозначность
• моносемия
• семантизация
• вторичная семантическая функция