Calque
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In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Template:Lang-la) or root-for-root translation.
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See also
- Anglicism
- Chinese Pidgin English
- Cognate
- Gallicism
- Germanism
- Loanword
- Metatypy
- Semantic loan
- Translation
- Wasei-eigo
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