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calque
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calque  (klk)
n.
See loan translation.
[French, from calquer, to trace, copy, from Italian calcare, to press, from Latin calcre, to tread on, from calx, heel.]
calque [kælk]
n
(Linguistics) another word for loan translation
vb calques, calquing, calqued
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) (tr) another word for calk3
[from French: a tracing, from calquer, from Latin calcāre to tread]
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Noun1.calque - an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language; "`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'"
calque formation, loan translation
locution, saying, expression - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression"
Translations
calque [kælk] N → calco m (on de)
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In the language variety used by Scandinavian speakers with English speakers, including caregiver speech to young children, the syntax of English negative clauses is likely to have been calqued on that of Scandinavian, and featured a postverbal negator equivalent to ME not calqued on Scandinavian eigi (see e.
Contact with Scandinavian and late Middle English negative concord by Ingham, Richard / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
In conclusion, this derivation for flamenco may be summarized in the following formula: a Romani lexeme calqued into Andalusian, possibly with a degree of ingroup encryption, then appropriated by speakers of germania and Castilian, with a concurrent phonological reshaping and superficial semantic anchoring in a pre-existent term that already had an exotic coloring of its own.
Spanish flamenco: origin, loan translation, and in- and out-group ... by Sayers, William / Romance Notes
Shippey observes that there is a strong association between the Riders of Rohan in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the Anglo-Saxons of poetry and history, and more specifically that "the chapter 'The King of the Golden Hall' is straightforwardly calqued on Beowulf" (94).
Heorot or Meduseld?: Tolkien's use of Beowulf in "The King of the ... by Kightley, Michael R. / Mythlore
 
 
 
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