- In linguistics, a
calque (/kælk/) or loan
translation is a word or
phrase borrowed from
another language by
literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation...
- list
contains examples of
calques in
various languages.
Running dog
calques Chinese: 走狗; pinyin: zǒu gǒu.
brainwashing calques Chinese: 洗腦; pinyin: xǐ nǎo...
- In linguistics, an
etymological calque is a
lexical item
calqued from
another language by
replicating the
etymology of the
borrowed lexical item although...
- England:
Tolkien carefully constructed the
Shire as an element-by-element
calque upon England.
There are
other connections;
Tolkien equated the latitude...
- pronunciation: [lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a
Louisiana French phrase. The
phrase is a
calque of the
English phrase "let the good
times roll", that is, a word-for-word...
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commonplace is a
calque of
locus communis,
itself a
calque of Gr**** κοινός τόπος.
subject matter is a
calque of
subiecta māteria,
itself a
calque of Aristotle's...
- "children's garden"). The word
calque is a loanword,
while the word
loanword is a
calque:
calque comes from the
French noun
calque ("tracing; imitation; close...
-
Argentina Chilean people Chinaman United States,
Canada Chinese people A
calque of the
Chinese 中國人. It was used in the gold rush and railway-construction...
- term in philology.[dubious – discuss] It was
possibly a
calque of
German Vorwort,
itself a
calque of
Latin praefatio.
Afterword Epigraph Introduction Preface...
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French mercredi,
Spanish miércoles or
Italian mercoledì, the day's name is a
calque of
Latin dies
Mercurii 'day of Mercury'.
Wednesday is in the
middle of the...
