"calque" + "loanword"
"calque" as a loanword and "loanword" as a calque
2025-09-14 11:42 // updated 2026-03-02 18:16
now for a weird happening:
- calque is a "loanword": an un-tweaked fully-borrowed word
- loanword is a "calque": a word whose "parts" are "translated"
calque
- French calque ("to trace")
- Italian calcare ("to trace, to tread on")
- Latin calcāre ("to tread on")
- Latin calx ("heel")
- (further etymology unknown)
- Italian calcare ("to trace, to tread on")
loanword
- German Lehnwort ("loan word")
- German lehnen ("to lend")
- Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan ("to lend")
- Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną / *laihną ("to lend")
- Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan ("to lend")
PIE *leykw- (to leave)