Calques: Element-by-element translations of compound loan words

"A small but interesting group of words is that made up of calques, formed by translating the elements of a compound loan-word to produce a word made up of native elements but with its meaning derived from the foreign word, as in 'masterpiece,' borrowed in the seventeenth century from Dutch 'meesterstuk' or German 'meisterstuck,' a piece of work by which a workman qualifies as a craftsman." - G.L. Brook, Words in Everyday Life 7 (1981)