混こん種しゅ語ご

noun

hybrid word; mixed-origin term

Linguistic term for a word formed by combining elements from different languages, such as a Sino-Japanese root with a loanword suffix.

• 「テレビ局きょく」は和わ製せい漢かん語ごと外がい来らい語ごが混まざった混こん種しゅ語ごの例れいだ。

  "Terebikyoku" (TV station) is an example of a hybrid word mixing a wasei-kango and a loanword.

• 言げん語ご学がくでは、異ことなる言げん語ごの要よう素そからなる語ごを混こん種しゅ語ごと呼よぶ。

  In linguistics, a word made up of elements from different languages is called a hybrid word.