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loanwords
A loanword is a term taken from another language and used without translation; it has a specific meaning that (typically) does not otherwise exist in a single English word. Sometimes the word’s spelling or pronunciation (or both) is slightly altered to accommodate English orthography, but, in most cases, it is preserved in its original language.
Résumé (🇫🇷) and kindergarten (🇩🇪) are loanwords.
calques
A calque, on the other hand, is a word or phrase taken from another language but translated (either in part or in whole) to corresponding English words while still retaining the original meaning.
Forget-me-not calques Old French’s ne m’oubliez mye. Beer garden calques German’s biergarten.
the grand conclusion
But wait: Calque is a word taken from French and used without translation, so calque is a loanword! Meanwhile, loanword calques German’s lehnwort.
Therefore… “Loanword” is a calque, and “calque” is a loanword!
This content originally appeared on raganwald.com and was authored by Reginald Braithwaite
Reginald Braithwaite | Sciencx (2022-11-03T00:00:00+00:00) Mutual Recursion in Language. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2022/11/03/mutual-recursion-in-language/
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