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The result was merge to Phono-semantic matching. Randykitty ( talk) 14:50, 7 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Expressive loan

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Per WP:DEL6 and 7: Term either does not exist, is a mistranslation from some valid linguistics expression in another language, or is a hoax. Note the lack of results from {{ Find sources}}. Mathglot ( talk) 22:33, 22 April 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Mathglot ( talk) 23:25, 22 April 2018 (UTC) reply

• There seem to be a handful of sources in Finnish, but since I don't read Finnish they might not be on point. If the concept has been written about in Finnish, it is odd that there doesn't seem to be a related article at Finnish Wikipedia. Google scholar only shows me one result (Volkova 2007, "Internationalism as an integral part of contemporary language") apparently written in English, but it's only cited by papers written in Russian. That paper doesn't seem to be available anywhere I can find it. I'm leaning toward delete, unless someone knows of sourcing in another language. Cnilep ( talk) 02:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC) reply

• Merge into a related article. Phono-semantic matching seems close, but not quite the same phenomenon; maybe Folk etymology is better, or simply Loanword. Aikio does write about this phenomenon in his PhD thesis (2009) (p. 33ff.), without using the term "expressive loan". This is a real phenomenon researched by scholars, so Wikipedia should cover it in some form. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 04:21, 23 April 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finland-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen ( talk) 07:57, 23 April 2018 (UTC) reply

Merge, it looks like Phono-semantic matching is related to the point that having two different articles is excessive. Also, I've seen terms like "expressive or onomatopoetic origin" (e.g. [1]) or similar used for this phenomenon, which makes finding sources difficult. -- vuo ( talk) 22:11, 1 May 2018 (UTC) reply

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