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Calques Loanwords A calque is a word or phrase that A loanword is a word or phrase was coined by translating the that was taken from one language to components of a word or phrase in another. For example, the English another language. For example, the word 'patio' is from the Spanish English word 'skyscraper' has been word 'patio' which means 'patio'. calqued into Spanish by directly Loanwords make up between 70 translating the words 'sky' and and 80% of English vocabulary. 'scraper', to give 'rascacielos'. Example of a calque: Example of a loanword: German French Lehnwort calque (morphemes translated) (word borrowed) English loan + word English loanword calque Starkey Comics