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The case study concentrates on a lexical adaptation of the nouns  weblog  and  blog  in the Slovak language. The processes of borrowing and subsequent adaptation are analysed in accordance with the theory of lexical motivation (TLM). Lexical adaptation represents a process on the basis of which a loanword is incorporated into the system of the borrowing language (L2), i.e. serving as an underlying, motivating word for coining new lexemes, and thus generates a  nomination family  ( nomination nest ). The concept of the nomination family is based on the understanding of the term word-formation nest, commonly used in derivatology. The nomination family is a cluster of all lexemes (single-word, or multi-word expressions), which are grouped around the initial, underlying, motivating loanword on the basis of formal and semantical relationships. The nomination family of the loanwords  weblog  and  blog  is substantial, and includes more than 200 entries. Both initial lexemes ( weblog ,  blog ) are taken from English (using the terminology of TLM, the concept of interlingual motivation is employed) while the nomination relationship – abbreviation ( weblog  →  blog ) has been transferred from L1 to L2. The word  blog  is thus polymotivated, its formation can be viewed in a twofold way: (a) as a loanword it has been borrowed from L1 (interlingual motivation), (b) as an abbreviation it has been formed from  weblog  (abbreviation motivation). A number of entries have been taken over and integrated at the same time (e.g.  bloger ,  bloging ,  foodblog ,  foodbloging  etc.) into the  blog  nomination family in the Slovak language. The impact of word-formation is extraordinarily evident in the formation from the word  blog , cf. words denoting male and female persons ( bloger ,  blogerka ), adjectives ( blogový ,  blogerský ), verbs ( blogovať ), and notably compounds and their derivatives ( videoblog ,  videoblogový ,  videoblogovať ,  videobloger ,  foodblog ,  foodbloger ,  foodblogerka ,  mikroblog ,  mikroblogovať ,  mikroblogový , etc.). Even though almost half of derivatives can be classified as nonce-formations, this kind of word-formation manifests a huge potentiality of word-formation motivation in the Slovak language. Moreover, a significant place in the  blog  nomination family is held by multiword expressions such as  politický blog  ‚political blog‘,  cestovateľský blog  ‚travel blog‘. In addition, competition between multi-word expressions and semantically identical compounds ( technologický blog – techblog ) is rare. A complex notion to be denominated is predominantly expressed either by means of a multi-word expression ( finančný blog  ‚financial blog‘,  knižný blog  ‚book blog‘), or a compound ( foodblog ,  mikroblog ).

Remarks on lexical adaptation of loanwords in the Slovak language (based on the blog nomination family)