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▪ I. calque Philol. (kælk) [Fr., lit. ‘copy’, f. calquer to trace (a design, etc.), ad. It. calcare, ad. L. calcāre to tread.] A loan-translation (see loan n.1). Also as vb.1937 Amer. Speech XII. 44 The speaker begins saying things in one form only, instead of using two forms which are almost exact ...
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Calque
The term calque itself is a loanword from the French noun ("tracing, imitation, close copy"), while the word loanword is a calque of the German noun . This is less likely to be the case when the grammar of the proposed calque is quite different from that of the borrowing language, or when the calque contains
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Etymological calque
In linguistics, an etymological calque is a lexical item calqued from another language by replicating the etymology of the borrowed lexical item although Therefore, règǒu is an etymological calque.
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Vavra (disambiguation)
Vavra may also refer to:
Vávra, Vavřa, a diminutive of the Czech name Vavřinec, a Czech calque of the name Laurentius
Vávra Suk, Swedish politician
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Is 人孔 from English? I was discussing with a friend about the word ``, and I know I read (or was told) that it's taken from the English "manhole", literally juxtaposing the kanji for "man" with that for "hole", since f...
This is a linguistic phenomenon called " **calque** " or "loan translation". In Japanese, it is called {}. A calque is a word that has been borrowed from another language by the method of literally translating the foreign word "component-by-component".
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Foreword
It was possibly a calque of German Vorwort, itself a calque of Latin praefatio.
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Grammar behind the flower name ワスレナグサ If I researched correctly (and with that I mean reading a bit of Wikipedia), the plant name , or when written with Kanji, is a calque of German "Vergissmeinnicht" ("forget-me-not...
I researched for a while and here's my result. According to this site: > forget-me-not > > forget-me-not is a () of the English word forget-me-not, and is a (ateji), meaning (Don't forget me!) However, according to this: > () is a (byname) for , but nowadays () is much more common than the original ...
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Calk
community in Montgomery County, Kentucky, United States
Stephen Calk (born 1967), American entrepreneur
See also
Caulk, a material used for sealing
Calque
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Is there a name for verbs written as: Katakana+る? The number of verbs that have the pattern `KATAKANA + ` seems to be increasing. Some examples include , , , , , etc. Is there some kind of official name (or even inf...
In Japanese, these are called either (a calque of "portmanteau word") or (a calque of "blended word").
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List of calques
French cor anglais (literally English horn) is a near-calque of English French horn. Zuckermann argues that this is a calque not only of the Yiddish expression Was hört sich?
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幼稚園 coincidental similarity with english/german? Isn't it a bit strange that it has at the end? Was this word actually made in Japan after they knew about kindergarten ?
* Calque
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Žalgiris
Žalgiris may refer to:
A Lithuanian-language calque of the Polish placename Grunwald, notable for the Battle of Grunwald, known as Žalgirio mūšis ("Battle
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Symplectic
The term "symplectic" is a calque of "complex" introduced by Hermann Weyl in 1939.
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为什么德语和英语同源,但是法语和英语相似词汇最多,相反感觉英语和德语又没有那么像呢?
:sur-(ober)face(Fläche)> Oberfläche 其中比较好玩的是“democracy”这个词,它经过“calque”成了德语的“Volksherrschaft”,一下子就变得精神了吧! 于是我开了个脑洞,如果把德语的“entwickeln”(发展)通过“calque”变成英语:ent-(un-)wickeln(wrap)> unwrap 就成了“展开”,那么“Entwicklung”对应的“unwrapping”似乎也能勉强被解释成“发展”。于是: 果然,就是如此不正式。
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Verkana
Verkana may refer to:
Hyrcania: a Greek calque for the ancient Iranian country Verkâna, which occupied an area similar to
Mazandaran Province in modern
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