Template:semantic loan/documentation

This template is used in etymology sections to indicate that one or more meanings of a term in one language was borrowed from a term of similar meaning in another language. For example, the Russian word, which ordinarily refers to the small animal, came to refer to the computer device, after the model of English.

Semantic borrowing is a special case of or loan-translation, in which the word in the borrowing language already existed and simply had a new meaning added to it. Use the template instead if the word in question did not exist until the loan-translation was created.

This template adds entries to categories such as Category:Russian semantic loans from English.

Parameters

 * 1
 * The language code (see Languages) of the language which borrowed the sense, which should be the language of the section that the template is placed in.


 * 2
 * The language code of the source language from which loaned the sense.


 * 3
 * The term in the source language that influenced this term. If empty, generates a term request ([Term?]) and places the entry in a term request category, except in some cases like derivations from families or substrates. To override this and disable the term request, use "-".


 * 4 or alt
 * An alternative display form to show for the term, see and.


 * 5 or t
 * A gloss/translation for the term, see and.


 * tr
 * A transliteration for the term, see and.


 * pos
 * A part of speech indication for the term, see and.


 * g, g2, g3 and so on
 * Gender and number, as in and ; see Module:gender and number for details.


 * lit
 * A literal translation for the term, see and.


 * id
 * A sense id for the term, see and.


 * senseid
 * Links to a specific sense, see . Two exclamation marks should be placed between ID's in the event there are multiple.


 * 1
 * Show the initial text with a lowercase initial letter.


 * 1
 * Omit the initial text altogether. The first thing displayed will be the source language name.


 * 1
 * Suppress categorization.


 * sc
 * Script code to use, see and.


 * sort
 * Sort key. Not normally needed.