Lexicalise (Verb)
Meaning
Make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language; "The concept expressed by German `Gemuetlichkeit' is not lexicalized in English".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- English does not fully lexicalise the nuances of the concept of Swedish 'lagom' which roughly translates to not too little, not too much.
- A number of modern terms referring to digital services have been lexicalised in Japanese.
- Unlike in some other languages, the sensory perception of synesthesia is not lexicalised in English.
- This feeling of intense tranquility experienced during long solitary walks in nature is not well lexicalised across languages.
- Japanese culture has a highly lexicalised concept of aesthetics, drawing a distinction between wabi and sabi.