Nomination of Domestic Lexical Units as Equivalents of Borrowings in the Modern Greek Language

In parallel with the process of borrowing vocabulary from foreign languages, there is also an internal process of searching for and nominating native lexical units that will appear as equivalents of the borrowed vocabulary and take on its semantics and functionality. In some cases, the Modern Greek language finds and nominates native vocabulary. In the case of complex words, calques or semi-calques are created and the foreign-language prototype is also reproduced using native means. In other cases, the new meaning is taken over by semantic calques, which develop a new figurative meaning by reproducing the model of secondary nomination in a semantically corresponding lexical unit from the source language.