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」は和製漢語と外来語が混ざった混種語の例だ。
"Terebikyoku" (TV station) is an example of a hybrid word mixing a wasei-kango and a loanword.
言語学では、異なる言語の要素からなる語を混種語と呼ぶ。
In linguistics, a word made up of elements from different languages is called a hybrid word.
A loanword from a foreign language; 混種語 is a hybrid that mixes a loanword element with a native or Sino-Japanese element.
Compound of 混種 (mixed breed, hybrid) and 語 (word, language). The term is a modern linguistic coinage.