Traces of Foreign Language Absorption in the Lexicon of Packaged Cooking Spices in Indonesia

This study maps the traces of loanword absorption in the lexicon of packaged spices in Indonesian by linking the historical-cultural dimensions of the spice trade and inter-regional contact at the level of naming ready-to-eat food products. This study aims to identify the source language, types of borrowing, and patterns of orthographic-phonological, morphological, and semantic adaptation, as well as to map code-switching or code-mixing practices on bilingual labels. A descriptive-analytical design was used in this study. Data were collected from spice packaging through offline documentation of the front and back panels, spelling normalization, and variable coding covering source language, type of borrowing, form adaptation, meaning change, and code-switching or code-mixing. The analysis was conducted at the micro level, namely etymology and form-meaning correspondence, while the analysis at the macro level took the form of distribution tabulation and n-gram collocation. The results of the study show that three layers of stratification were found: first, local-historical, which makes the naming of Indonesian the anchor of identity; second, English as the language of instruction on labels for technical categories and descriptors; third, East Asian or ASEAN elements as an index of origin or culinary authority. The Indonesian morphotactic pattern is N + N; N + N + Adj, adaptation of loanword spelling, and code-switching or code-mixing directed by the ID-EN or vice versa arrangement pattern, which shows glocalization, namely local readability juxtaposed with global access without obscuring the core product categories

Etymology · Foreign language · Grammar · Indonesian · Lexical item · Lexicon · Loanword · Readability · Versa · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism