Meaning
1 sensesA word directly taken into one language from another one.
"Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins.
Lehnwort, Fremdwort
заи́мствованиеzaímstvovanije, заи́мствованное сло́воzaímstvovannoje slóvo
запози́ченняzapozýčennja
a word borrowed from another language; e.g. ‘blitz’ is a German word borrowed into modern English
Examples
14 sentencesThere probably isn't a language without loanwords.
There is not a language without some loanwords.
"Calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque.
There is not a language which doesn't have some loanwords.
Loanwords don't corrupt a language; they merely change it.
deFremdwörter verderben eine Sprache nicht, sondern verändern sie lediglich.
Translations
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Origin
A calque of German Lehnwort, equivalent to loan + word. Compare West Frisian lienwurd, DutA calque of German Lehnwort, equivalent to loan + word. Compare West Frisian lienwurd, Dutch leenwoord, Danish låneord, Swedish lånord, Icelandic lánsorð.
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