kalke.
calque: a word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language
Meaning & usage
calque: a word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language
Where this word comes from
From Dutch calque, from French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”).
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