I was familiar with the term #loanword. TIL #calque. the word itself is a loanword & "loanword" is a calque. TIL "Wednesday" came from German, is a reference to a German pagan god. flea market is from French. #wikipedia #wikipediarabbithole @wikipedia #xkcd #xkcd214 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque

"Calque" is a #loanword and "loanword" is a #calque. That will never not be funny.

The Irish for melancholy is Lionn Dubh
It is a literal translation of the Latin Atras Bilis meaning Black Bile #gaeilge #calque

«my #Latin friends give me a change in my #English» https://bit.ly/latinfriends

A very interesting post from a #Chinese person! 😃

#ScientificAmerican #SpringerNature #EnglishDialect #SouthFlorida #Florida #Linguistics #Miami #Miamians #Spanish #Calque #Calques #Language #Languages #Spanglish #Bear #BearBlog #LanguageLearning #LanguageContact


·Berke = Ber + ke


·Ber = bear (a #calque, i.e. direct loan translation, from the Hebrew name #Dov (= bear)


·ke = a Yiddish #diminutive suffix, mostly reserved for names, borrowed from Slavic languages


·(o)witz = #patronymic #suffix, the Germanized/Yiddishized version of Polish “wicz” and Russian “vich,” meaning “son of”

Berkowitz = Ber + ke + (o)witz [bear+ little + son of]

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#Calque 😱