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CALQUES


  • loan translation, esp. one resulting from bilingual interference in which the internal structure of a borrowed word or phrase is maintained but its morphemes are replaced by those of the native language, as German halbinsel for peninsula
  • loanshift
  • to form (a word or phrase) through the process of loan translation
  • CALQUE, to model a word's meaning upon that of an analogous word in another language [v]

Previous Words

CALPAC CALPACK CALPACKS CALPACS CALPAIN CALPAINS CALPAS CALPS CALQUE CALQUED

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CALQUING CALS CALTHA CALTHAS CALTHROP CALTHROPS CALTRAP CALTRAPS CALTROP CALTROPS