Calque
a loan translation, especially one resulting from bilingual interference in which the internal structure of a borrowed word or phrase is maintained but its morphemes are replaced by those of the native language, as German halbinsel for peninsula.
loanshift.
to form (a word or phrase) through the process of loan translation.
noun
another word for loan translation
verb calques, calquing, calqued
(transitive) another word for calk3
n.
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