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-square130fedilinkarrow-up11.19Karrow-down113
arrow-up11.18Karrow-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-square130fedilink
minus-squareSiegfried@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·edit-21 month agoEnglish is a germanic language. Is loanword an actual calque, and not an “evolved” version of a root word?
minus-squaresparkle@lemm.eelinkfedilinkCymraegarrow-up8·edit-21 month agoNo, it was imported from German. Frisian and Dutch have “lienwurd” and “leenwoord” too (also calqued from German)
minus-squareSchadrach@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoEnglish is a Germanic language, with a lot of it’s vocabulary imported from a Romance language (French). Hilarity ensues.
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?
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.