Editing Phono-semantic matching (section)

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'''Phono-semantic matching''' ('''PSM''') is the incorporation of a [[word]] into one language from another, often creating a [[neologism]], where the word's non-native quality is hidden by replacing it with [[Phonetics|phonetically]] and [[semantic]]ally similar words or roots from the adopting language. Thus the approximate [[sound]] and [[Meaning (linguistic)|meaning]] of the original expression in the source [[language]] are preserved, though the new expression (the PSM – the phono-semantic match) in the target language may sound native.

Phono-semantic matching is distinct from [[calquing]], which includes (semantic) [[translation]] but does not include phonetic matching (i.e., retention of the approximate sound of the [[loanword|borrowed word]] through matching it with a similar-sounding pre-existent word or [[morpheme]] in the target language).

Phono-semantic matching is also distinct from [[homophonic translation]], which retains the sound of a word but not the meaning.