Editing Calque (section)

== History ==

Since at least 1894, according to the {{Lang|fr|[[Trésor de la langue française informatisé]]|italic=no}}, the [[French (language)|French]] term ''calque'' has been used in its [[linguistic]] sense, namely in a publication by Louis Duvau:<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Duvau |first1=Louis |title=Expressions hybrides |journal=Mémoires de la Société de linguistique de Paris |date=1894 |volume=8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/memoires7818soci/page/190/mode/2up?q=%22Un+autre+ph%C3%A9nom%C3%A8ne+d'hybridation%22 191] |location=Paris}}</ref>
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|Un autre phénomène d'hybridation est la création dans une langue d'un mot nouveau, dérivé ou composé à l'aide d'éléments existant déja dans cette langue, et ne se distinguant en rien par l'aspect extérieur des mots plus anciens, mais qui, en fait, n'est que le '''calque''' d'un mot existant dans la langue maternelle de celui qui s'essaye à un parler nouveau. [...] nous voulons rappeler seulement deux ou trois exemples de ces '''calques''' d'expressions, parmi les plus certains et les plus frappants.
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Another phenomenon of hybridization is the creation in a language of a new word, derived or composed with the help of elements already existing in that language, and which is not distinguished in any way by the external aspect of the older words, but which, in fact, is only the '''copy''' (''calque'') of a word existing in the mother tongue of the one who tries out a new language. [...] we want to recall only two or three examples of these '''copies''' (''calques'') of expressions, among the most certain and the most striking.}}

Since at least 1926, the term ''calque'' has been attested in English through a publication by the linguist {{interlanguage link|Otakar Vočadlo|cs}}:<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vočadlo |first1=Otakar |title=Slav Linguistic Purity and the Use of Foreign Words |journal=The Slavonic Review |date=1926 |volume=5 |issue=14 |page=353 |jstor=4202081}}</ref>

: [...] such imitative forms are called {{Lang|fr|calques}} (or {{Lang|fr|décalques}}) by French [[philologists]], and this is a frequent method in coining abstract terminology, whether nouns or verbs.