- the
target language. For instance, the
English word skys****er has been
calqued in
dozens of
other languages,
combining words for "sky" and "s****e" in...
- František Janeček Many
words and
phrases calqued by
Latin from Gr**** have been
borrowed by English.
Latin calques many
terms from Gr****, many of
which have...
- In linguistics, an
etymological calque is a
lexical item
calqued from
another language by
replicating the
etymology of the
borrowed lexical item although...
- Gr****
phrases were also
calqued in Latin.
Sometimes English uses the
Latin form: deus ex
machina 'god out of the machine' was
calqued from the Gr**** apò mēkhanês...
- numbers,
instead of the
Western Arabic numerals. The word śūnya for zero was
calqued into
Arabic as صفر sifr,
meaning 'nothing',
which became the term "zero"...
- Nábrók or nábuxur (
calqued as necropants,
literally "corpse breeches") are a pair of
pants made from the skin of a dead human,
which are
believed in Icelandic...
-
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...
- philosophy, and mathematics.
English continues to gain new
loanwords and
calques ("loan translations") from
languages all over the world, and
words from...
- term in philology.[dubious – discuss] It was
possibly a
calque of
German Vorwort,
itself a
calque of
Latin praefatio.
Afterword Epigraph Introduction Preface...
-
Wandering Jew (occasionally
referred to as the
Eternal Jew, an
antisemitic calque from
German "der
Ewige Jude") is a
mythical immortal man
whose legend began...
