loan translation

/L OW1 N T R AE0 N Z L EY1 SH AH0 N/
noun
  1. 1

    A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.

    “The word "watershed" is a calque of the German "Wasserscheide".”

    syn:calquingloan translation

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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calque, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loan%20translation

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