Calque
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A Calque is a Loan Word that has been Transliterated word-for-word.
- Example(s):
- See: Transliteration.
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".
- 1. A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.