• Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    English is a germanic language. Is loanword an actual calque, and not an “evolved” version of a root word?

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      No, it was imported from German. Frisian and Dutch have “lienwurd” and “leenwoord” too (also calqued from German)

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      English is a Germanic language, with a lot of it’s vocabulary imported from a Romance language (French). Hilarity ensues.

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      Loanword came into the language around 1860 so it is a claque. If it had been in the vocabulary since old-english then it would just be an evolved version of the German root.