Calque

A Calque is a Loan Word that has been Transliterated word-for-word.

• Example(s):
  • “point of view” from “point de vue” (French ⇒ English).
  • “thought experiment” from “Gedankenexperiment” (German ⇒ English).
  • grattacielo from “skyscraper” (English ⇒ Italian).
• See: Transliteration.

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References

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calque
  • 1. A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
    • The word "watershed" is a calque of the German "Wasserscheide".

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