(thing) by junkpile Sat Oct 21 2000 at 17:58:27

Loan translation, or a word which is created through loan translation. The parts of the source word are directly translated to make parts of a new word.

An example is "superman," which derives directly from the German "Übermensch."   New York is called "Nueva York" by Spanish-speakers.

This word derives from the French calquer, meaning to trace or copy. "Calque" is not a calque.

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