@ickplant to Lemmy Shitpost • 1 year agoAn oldie but a goodiei.postimg.ccimagemessage-square145arrow-up11.29Karrow-down159
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minus-squareKaryoplasmalinkfedilink4•1 year agoFun little tidbit: the word “loanword” itself is a sub-type of a loanword, a calque, which is a word-by-word translation from a word in a different language. It was brought to English from the German “Lehnwort”.
Fun little tidbit: the word “loanword” itself is a sub-type of a loanword, a calque, which is a word-by-word translation from a word in a different language. It was brought to English from the German “Lehnwort”.
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