Flying SquidM to Lemmy Shitpost • 4 months agoIt's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.imagemessage-square130arrow-up11.19Karrow-down113
arrow-up11.18Karrow-down1imageIt's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.Flying SquidM to Lemmy Shitpost • 4 months agomessage-square130
minus-square@Siegfriedlink25•edit-24 months agoEnglish is a germanic language. Is loanword an actual calque, and not an “evolved” version of a root word?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkCymraeg8•edit-24 months agoNo, it was imported from German. Frisian and Dutch have “lienwurd” and “leenwoord” too (also calqued from German)
minus-squareSchadrachlinkfedilinkEnglish7•4 months agoEnglish is a Germanic language, with a lot of it’s vocabulary imported from a Romance language (French). Hilarity ensues.
minus-square@bitwabalink3•4 months agoLoanword 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.
English is a germanic language. Is loanword an actual calque, and not an “evolved” version of a root word?
No, it was imported from German. Frisian and Dutch have “lienwurd” and “leenwoord” too (also calqued from German)
English is a Germanic language, with a lot of it’s vocabulary imported from a Romance language (French). Hilarity ensues.
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.