Is there a term for loanwords that are borrowed back into their original language? [closed]

Is there a word for double loanwords?

The only example I can think of right now isn't in English, but it should clarify what I mean.

Küçük, meaning small/young, the original Turkish word, was borrowed into Farsi and pronounced kuchak (also meaning small/young). Turkish re-borrowed kuckak as köçek, which was used not to mean the same thing as küçük, but rather to refer to young male dancers in the Ottoman court.

Does this borrowing process have a name? Do twice-loaned words have their own category?

Solution 1:

The wikipedia article about loanwords refers to the process of words being borrowed back as reborrowing. The examples in that article are of words borrowed from French or from Greek into English (as beefsteak and cinema), and then reborrowed into French or Greek with slightly different meaning, spelling, and pronunciation. More examples appear in the semantic loan article.

Solution 2:

According to Krysstal, they are referred to as borrowed words, or words loaned from other languages. I am not sure if there is a word or expression that means that the word is borrowed back.

Some of the Greek words that fit this category, though, include:

Australia - Originally meaning southern, and now referring to the country.

Catholic - Originally meaning universal, and now referring to the religion. Note that the Greek Orthodox bible still uses the original meaning of this word. I believe there are some disciplines that also use the original meaning of this word.

Democracy - Originally meaning state of the people, and now referring to the political paradigm. The same can be said for politics, which comes from the word politis meaning man of the people. I much rather prefer Larry Hardiman's definition of the word, though.

Mesopotamia - Originally meaning between the rivers, and now referring to the ancient region now part of Iraq.

Telephone - Originally meaning far voice, and now referring to the communication device.

Note that the above link provides a list of words that the English language has borrowed from other languages.