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Noun Concept
Categories: Calques, Etymology, Articles with short description
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calque  calque formation  loan translation  Calq  calqueing
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An expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language WordNet 3.0
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An expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. Wikipedia
A term in one language translated word-for-word from the term in another language Wikipedia Disambiguation
Word or expression adopted from a foreign language by translation of its constituent morphemes Wikidata
A compound word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, "word-for-word" or root-for-root translation. OmegaWiki
A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language. Wiktionary
Word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language. Wiktionary (translation)
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`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch' WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The word “watershed” is a calque of the German “Wasserscheide”. Wiktionary