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Once again, my favourite linguistics thing.

A calque is a word or words borrowed from another language whole being translated.

A loanword is a word borrowed from another language without the spelling, at least, being changed.

"Calque" is a loanword of the French "calque".

"Loanword" is a calque of the German "Lehnwort"

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Other examples of calques in English are "it goes without saying" from French "ça va sans dire" and "long time no see" from Chinese "好久不見" (hǎojiǔ bùjiàn)

Even "Wednesday" is ultimately a calque from Latin "Mercurii dies", Mercury being interpreted by Germanic tribes as being Odin, thus Wodanesdag

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"Wisdom tooth" is a calque of a Latin word that's a calque of an Arabic word that's a calque of a Greek word