Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 months agoIt's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up11.05Karrow-down111
arrow-up11.04Karrow-down1imageIt's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square114fedilink
minus-squareSiegfried@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-29 months agoEnglish is a germanic language. Is loanword an actual calque, and not an “evolved” version of a root word?
minus-squaresparkle@lemm.eelinkfedilinkCymraegarrow-up7·edit-29 months agoNo, it was imported from German. Frisian and Dutch have “lienwurd” and “leenwoord” too (also calqued from German)
minus-squareSchadrach@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoEnglish is a Germanic language, with a lot of it’s vocabulary imported from a Romance language (French). Hilarity ensues.
minus-squarebitwaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 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.