和製英語

Chinese
Japanese-made, often linguistic English language
trad. (和製英語) 和製 英語
simp. (和制英语) 和制 英语

Pronunciation

Noun

和製英語

  1. (linguistics) Japanese pseudo-anglicisms

See also

Japanese
Kanji in this term
和 製 英 語
わ
Grade: 3		 せい
Grade: 5		 えい
Grade: 4		 ご
Grade: 2
goon kan’on goon

Etymology

Compound of 和製(わせい) (wasei, “Japanese-made”) + 英語(えいご) (eigo, “English (language)”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) わせーえ​ーご [wàséé éꜜègò] (Nakadaka – [4])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɰᵝa̠se̞ː e̞ːɡo̞]

Noun
Examples

和(わ)製(せい)英(えい)語(ご) • (wasei eigo) 

  1. Japanese pseudo-anglicisms: Japanese coinages using English roots, not in use in anglophone countries nor by English native speakers, but only by speakers of Japanese

See also
  • Category:Japanese pseudo-loans from English
  • List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms
  • 和(わ)製(せい)外(がい)来(らい)語(ご) (wasei gairaigo, “foreign-language terms coined in Japan”)
  • 和(わ)製(せい)漢(かん)語(ご) (wasei kango, “Japanese-created Chinese/Hanzi words”)

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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