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Calque

In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, "to calque" means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new word or phrase (lexeme) in the target language. For…

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Calque

Nodes58
Edges57
Triples45
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.034483
Components1

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Calque

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related to Types · 16
Calque → As, Bei Mir Bistu Shein, English, For, French, Loan-translations, Morphological, One, Phraseological, Semantic, Some, Syntactic, This, To Me You're Beautiful, Yiddish, Yiddish Broadway
related to Partial · 10
Calque → English, For, Freeview, German Apfelstrudel, German Leberwurst, Irish, Other, Partial, Saorview, UK
related to Examples · 7
Calque → At, English, French, German, In, Lehnwort, The
related to history · 6
Calque → English, French, Louis Duvau, Otakar Vočadlo, Since, Trésor
is a · 1
Calque → loanword

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word language english languages calques another translation french phrase words loanword example borrowed target german loan new across different linguistic

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Calqueis aloanword0.90text
timeinstance ofSpeakers of different languages tend to perceive the world through common categories0.80text
spaceinstance ofSpeakers of different languages tend to perceive the world through common categories0.80text
and quantityinstance ofSpeakers of different languages tend to perceive the world through common categories0.80text
making the translation of concepts across languages both possibleinstance ofSpeakers of different languages tend to perceive the world through common categories0.80text
natural.Calquing is distinct from phono-semantic matchinginstance ofSpeakers of different languages tend to perceive the world through common categories0.80text
Calquerelated to ExamplesThe0.60section
Calquerelated to ExamplesEnglish0.60section
Calquerelated to ExamplesFrench0.60section
Calquerelated to ExamplesAt0.60section
Calquerelated to ExamplesGerman0.60section
Calquerelated to ExamplesLehnwort0.60section

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