In this paper, we investigate the phenomenon of skeuomorphism in language. The word and the phenomenon itself originates in design and to our knowledge only very few scholarly articles have been written on the subject Veszelszki (2017: 104) defines it as “meaning extension”. In the Hungarian literature, this area is virtually unknown. Our aim is to point out that skeuomorphism could be construed as a method of word-formation. In our contribution, we present the semiotic and historical linguistic aspects of skeuomorphism and cite lexical examples to support our hypothesis.
Keywords: skeuomorphism, word-formation, language of computing, analogy, netlinguistics