calque
noun[C]
languagespecializeduk/kælk/us/kælk/a word taken from onelanguageandtranslatedin aliteralor word for word way to be used in another:
语义转借,译借,仿译"Groundhog" may be a calque fromDutch"aertoercken."英语的“groundhog(土拨鼠)”可能是对荷兰语的“aertoercken”的仿译。
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loan translation
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- etymologically
- flowery
- oxymoron
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
- prescriptivist