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keimusho
a word from vocabulary
Japanese
by
Christopher K. Schmidt
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Word form
keimusho
Original script
刑務所
LWT meaning(s)
the prison
Word meaning
modern term for prison
Analyzability
analyzable derived
Gloss
kei-mu-sho
Age
Modern Japanese [21] (1868–2007)
Lexical stratum
kango
Year
1925
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General
Numeric frequency
0
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
3. perhaps borrowed
Comments
This is a likely Japanese coinage, as this term has no currency in Mandarin, which uses jiānyù instead.
Source words
Unidentifiable
Chinese
Effect
Coexistence
Salience
Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
Sinicization (possible neologism) [21]
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