Talk:loanword

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Not autological

Note that loanword is not autological – it is a loan translation, since the components are translated, but not a loanword, in which the word would be borrowed without changing it.

Nbarth (email) (talk) 22:19, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Amusingly, however, this means that "calque" is a loanword while "loanword" is a calque.
67.171.52.243 21:34, 15 September 2019 (UTC)Reply