Look up calque in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language...

elaborated in his Éléments de linguistique générale (1960). The English translation double articulation is a French calque for double articulation (spelled...

"children's garden"). The word calque is a loanword, while the word loanword is a calque: calque comes from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close...

*hwatā́wā 'lord, sovereign; (literally) self-ruler' might be an intentional calque from Greek autokrátōr (presumably arisen in the Hellenistic period). In...

syntactic anglicism. Morphological anglicisms are literal translations (or calques) of the English forms. With this kind of borrowing, every element comes...

notes that ‘it is probable that several grammatical constructions are calques on the corresponding Bambara constructions’. Like Mande languages, the...

Granni (now Aachen, Germany). Aachen means ‘water’ in Old High German, a calque of the Roman name of "Aquae Granni". The town's hot springs with temperatures...

Vulgar Latin dialects that developed into French contributing loanwords and calques (including oui, the word for "yes"), sound changes shaped by Gaulish influence...

such adopted traits are the use of relational nouns, the appearance of calques, or loan translations, and a form of possessive construction typical of...

An argument for this would be the structural borrowings or "linguistic calques" into Macedonian from Aromanian, which could be explained by Aromanian...

English. Calque Dead metaphor Euphemism treadmill False friend Genericized trademark Language change Lexicology and lexical semantics List of calques Newspeak...

after the adoption of Latin, calques such as aveugle ("blind", literally without eyes, from Latin ab oculis, which was a calque on the Gaulish word exsops...

the first International Congress of Linguists in 1928, he used a German calque of this term, Sprachbund, defining it as a group of languages with similarities...

dialects that developed into French, with effects including loanwords and calques (including oui, the word for "yes"), sound changes, and influences in conjugation...

especially place names; les sacres – Quebec French profanity; many loanwords, calques, and other borrowings from English in the 19th and 20th centuries, whether...

translation and exegesis in which Hebrew-Aramaic patterns are frequently calqued, though the number of true Hebrew and/or Aramaic loanwords may be low....

in frequent contact with the English language have created a grammatical calque of the English you-impersonal. The English impersonal utilises the second...

dialects that developed into French, with effects including loanwords and calques (including oui, the word for "yes"), sound changes, and influences in conjugation...

Tablets, Paelignian: Ioviois (Pvclois) and Ioveis (Pvcles), interpreted as a calque of the Greek theonym Diós-kouroi, Anatolian: *diéu-, *diu-, a "god", Hittite:...

dialects that developed into French, with effects including loanwords and calques, sound changes shaped by Gaulish influence, as well as in conjugation and...

chữ Quốc ngữ, and new Vietnamese terms for new items or words are often calqued from Hán Nôm. Some French had originally planned to replace Vietnamese...

mariners calqued the modern Arabic name to "Casa Branca" ([kazɐ'bɾɐ̃kɐ] White House) in place of Anfa. The name "Casablanca" was then a calque of the Portuguese...

and loan translations: aveugle "blind", from Latin ab oculis "eyeless", calque of Gaulish exsops "blind", literally "eyeless" (vs. Latin caecus → OFr cieu...

as their name for Thursday (Perendan or Peräunedån), which is likely a calque of German Donnerstag. Some scholars argue that the functions of the Luwian...

many loanwords from these languages. Many words have also been formed as calques from Mandarin, and speakers will often directly use Mandarin vocabulary...

dialects that developed into French, with effects including loanwords and calques (including oui, the word for "yes"), sound changes shaped by Gaulish influence...

used for "broadcasting". In addition to this are neologisms, often being calques. An example is telephone, which is Greek for "far talk", translated as...

From the lexical point of view in Italian-Canadian, the phenomena of calques are also frequent, that is, "a particular type of borrowing for which in...

(coffee). Yogurt in Vietnamese is "sữa chua" (lit. "sour milk"), but also calqued from French (yaourt) into Vietnamese (da ua - /j/a ua). "Phô mai" (cheese)...

influence from English, including loanwords, code-switching and syntactic calquing. Today, Louisiana Creole is spoken by fewer than 6,000 people. Though national...