Calque

noun

/kælk/

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.nounA 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"."

2.verbTo adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.

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