- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
- philosophy, and mathematics.
English continues to gain new
loanwords and
calques ("loan translations") from
languages all over the world, and
words from...
-
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...
-
target language (a
process also
known as "loan translation") are
called calques, e.g., beer
garden from
German Biergarten. The
literal translation of the...
- eats
bread with you"),
first attested in the
Salic law (c. AD 500) as a
calque of the
Germanic expression gahlaibo (literally, "with bread"),
related to...
- 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...
