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)