👉 Devocation is a concept in linguistics that refers to the process of transferring meaning from one language to another. It involves the use of borrowed words or phrases, which are often not native to the original language but have been used by speakers of the target language to convey meanings that are similar to those of the source language. Devocations can be either direct or indirect, and they may involve the use of suffixes, prefixes, or other phonetic features of a borrowed word. In linguistics,