Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 month agoIt's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1857arrow-down112
arrow-up1845arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square84fedilink
minus-squareSiegfried@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·edit-21 month agoEnglish is a germanic language. Is loanword an actual calque, and not an “evolved” version of a root word?
minus-squareSchadrach@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoEnglish is a Germanic language, with a lot of it’s vocabulary imported from a Romance language (French). Hilarity ensues.
minus-squaresparkle@lemm.eelinkfedilinkCymraegarrow-up5·edit-21 month agoNo, it was imported from German. Frisian and Dutch have “lienwurd” and “leenwoord” too (also calqued from German)
minus-squarebitwaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month 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?
English is a Germanic language, with a lot of it’s vocabulary imported from a Romance language (French). Hilarity ensues.
No, it was imported from German. Frisian and Dutch have “lienwurd” and “leenwoord” too (also calqued from German)
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.