Learn English – What do you call the term for a made up word composed from two different languages

single-word-requests

Testing a child's language proficiency he answered "Swimar", when asked to say swim in Spanish (the correct answer would have been nadar)

Best Answer

They are hybrid words.

A hybrid word is a word which etymologically has one part derived from one language and another part derived from a different language.

The most common form of hybrid word in English is one which combines etymologically Latin and Greek parts. (wiki)