Latest posts tagged with #Calque on Bluesky
Calque de la chatte
Un calque est une technique de reproduction ou d'imitation d'une image ou d'un dessin en le traçant ou en le reproduisant sur une surface en transparence. #Calque #Technique #Imitation #Image #Dessin
Did you know that #loanwords aren't the only way a #language can borrow from other languages? They can also use a #calque , a loan #translation
#linguistics #words #english
View from the Nõelasilm archway towards Harju, Tallinn.
View towards the Nõelasilm archway and Niguliste church.
#acus means needle or, by extension, eye of the needle, likely a #calque on #Bremen’s oldest gate, #DieNatel (MLG de Natlen), aka #Bischofsnadel (Bishop’s Needle) or #Bischofstor (Bishop’s Gate), built sometime in the early 1200s. Being its first city gate and probably relatively small, it
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Reconstructed #OldNubian #Calque :
ⲡⲁⲛⲛ- (to trouble, be troubled) + -ⲕⳡ̄ⳡ "(to be) without" >
ⲡⲁⲛⲛⲓⲕⲓⳡⳡ (pannikiɲɲ)
Following general trend of consonantal shifts from ON to modern #Nobiin:
word-initial ⲡ > ⲫ
ⲫⲁⲛⲛⲓⲕⲓⳡⳡⲓ (fannikiɲɲi)
