Meanings: Semantic Fields
The words collected in the World Loanword Database vocabularies are based on the 1460 lexical meanings of the Loanword Typology meaning list. This list is divided into 24 semantic fields (following the 22 fields of the IDS list). The meanings can be viewed by semantic field, or as a complete list.
Field No. | Semantic field | Number of meanings | Borrowed score | Age score | Simplicity score |
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Field Number
The number in this column is the semantic field number. It is the first part of the Loanword Typology Code of the words in the corresponding field. |
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Semantic field
The first 22 fields are the fields of the Intercontinental Dictionary Series meaning list, proposed by Mary Ritchie Key, and ultimately based on Carl Darling Buck's (1949) Dictionary of selected synonyms in the principal Indo-European languages. The other two fields were added for the Loanword Typology project. |
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Number of meanings
This gives the number of different meanings in each semantic field. |
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Borrowed score
This gives the average borrowed score of all words corresponding to a meaning in this field. The following borrowed scores are assigned to words depending on the degree of likelihood of borrowing:
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Age score
This gives the average age score of all words corresponding to a meaning in this field. The following age scores are assigned to words depending on the estaimated age of their age class:
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Simplicity score
This gives the average simplicity score of all words corresponding to a meaning in this field. The following simplicity scores are assigned to words depending on their analyzability:
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1 | 86 | 0.21 | 0.83 | 0.85 | |
2 | 102 | 0.23 | 0.84 | 0.80 | |
3 | 155 | 0.32 | 0.80 | 0.91 | |
4 | 171 | 0.17 | 0.83 | 0.86 | |
5 | 103 | 0.37 | 0.81 | 0.87 | |
6 | 68 | 0.40 | 0.80 | 0.88 | |
7 | 53 | 0.40 | 0.80 | 0.86 | |
8 | 128 | 0.45 | 0.80 | 0.91 | |
9 | 112 | 0.33 | 0.81 | 0.89 | |
10 | 89 | 0.21 | 0.83 | 0.84 | |
11 | 53 | 0.34 | 0.82 | 0.84 | |
12 | 77 | 0.15 | 0.83 | 0.86 | |
13 | 47 | 0.33 | 0.84 | 0.85 | |
14 | 62 | 0.28 | 0.83 | 0.84 | |
15 | 55 | 0.19 | 0.82 | 0.84 | |
16 | 63 | 0.30 | 0.84 | 0.81 | |
17 | 58 | 0.29 | 0.82 | 0.81 | |
18 | 53 | 0.36 | 0.82 | 0.85 | |
19 | 76 | 0.64 | 0.82 | 0.89 | |
20 | 48 | 0.34 | 0.80 | 0.83 | |
21 | 28 | 0.36 | 0.79 | 0.72 | |
22 | 40 | 0.49 | 0.79 | 0.85 | |
23 | 58 | 0.64 | 0.76 | 0.86 | |
24 | 29 | 0.44 | 0.76 | 0.93 |