Flying SquidM 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 SquidM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 1 month agomessage-square130fedilink
minus-square@Siegfried@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilink25•edit-21 month agoEnglish is a germanic language. Is loanword an actual calque, and not an “evolved” version of a root word?
minus-square@sparkle@lemm.eelinkfedilinkCymraeg8•edit-21 month agoNo, it was imported from German. Frisian and Dutch have “lienwurd” and “leenwoord” too (also calqued from German)
minus-squareSchadrachlinkEnglish7•1 month agoEnglish is a Germanic language, with a lot of it’s vocabulary imported from a Romance language (French). Hilarity ensues.
minus-square@bitwaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•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.