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Calque (thing)
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junkpile
Sat Oct 21 2000 at 17:58:27
Loan translation
, or a word which is created through loan translation. The parts of the source word are directly translated to make parts of a new word.
An example is "
superman
," which derives directly from the German "
Übermensch
."
New York
is called "Nueva York" by Spanish-speakers.
This word derives from the French
calquer
, meaning to trace or copy. "Calque" is not a calque.
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