1.2.2. Modified loans
In certain borrowed compounds, the order in the loan compound is reversed for phonological or semantic reasons. We refer to these cases as “modified loans”. For instance, the Turkish word for mau mau (a card game) is pis+yedili (nasty+seven-ASSOC). In TİD, however, the order of the two parts is reversed, which might be explained by the phonological tendency of placing the component articulated in a higher position in the signing space first.
seven^nasty
pis+yedi-li (Turkish)
nasty+seven-ASSOC
‘mau mau (cardgame)’
room^sit
otur-ma+odası (Turkish)
sit-NR room-POSS.3S
‘livingroom’(Kan & Gökgöz 2009)
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