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Calque
Calque This article or section contains information that ... as needed, citing sources. In linguistics, a calque (pronounced [kælk]) or loan translation is a ... de semaine ("the end of week"), a calque, but in some it is left untranslated ... a loanword. "Loan translation" is itself a calque of German Lehnübersetzung. The word is also used as a verb: to calque means to loan translate from another ...
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Copy   (translated from French)
Copy In linguistic , and more precisely in lexicology , etymology and compared linguistics, one calls copy a type oflexical loan private individual in the sense that the borrowed term was translated literally of a language to another while being inspired more by its letter of its spirit. Consequently, one can say of ...
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Talk:Calque
Talk:Calque "English breakfast calques French déjeuner (which now ... If not, then it's not a calque. Fancy terms need accurate examples. Wetman 20 ... other than English (I checked out the calque page in the French Wikipedia and found ... clear from the examples gathered if a calque is a word that's translated literally ... more clearly thusly: 1. In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is the borrowing ...
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Talk:Swedish language
... Yes, ull=wolle, but to be a calque, I think both parts of the word ... know about, or Find another German => Swedish calque example that we can be proud of ... etymological dictionary, it may be a legal calque after all -- "bom" is "stång" in Swedish ... 4]. I'd call "bomull" a proper calque, but it seems as if pure sound ...
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List of Spanish words of Germanic origin
... lista listón lote lotería luna de miel (calque) maleta malta maquillaje marcar march marchar mariscal ... nórdico mormando orgullo palco paquete placa rascacielos (calque) raspar rata refutar reno sud- sur retaguardia ... teutón toalla toldo tope torio trampa tranvia (calque) tregua trepar trombón trompa trompeta trompo trotar ...
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Gebrandschilderd glass   (translated from Dutch)
... 1947 removed from the church are. The Calque On the same size as the carton also so-called calque are made. On this the perpendiculars stand ... colour nuance have its own number. The calque are cut with special shears (the stencil ...
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Talk:Headside (Anglish wiki)
... approach in creating words is _not_ to calque morphemes, but to calque definitions. Keep it short. Let's just ... Christtide! If Velociraptor was Speedy Snatcher(the calque), that would "clutter" the language with ambiguity ...
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Talk:Scottish Gaelic language/archive1
... Albainis meaning basically "Scotlandese" is a fair calque on the English name, but as you ... strictly accurate. Béarla Gallda is a fair calque on the Gaelic name, but basically means ...
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Talk:Romanian language/Archive 4
... secure"), in Arizona we say "aseguranza", a calque of the English "insur(e)-ance" from ... also "cada otro dia", which is a calque of the English "every other day", rather ...
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User:Flaye
... que kerana karena hôpital hospital rumah sakit - calque du nl ziekenhuis électricité tenaga elektrik ( "puissance ... krim - nl eijs zoo zoo kebun binatang, calque du nl dierentuin télévision televisyen - gb television ...
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