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There are lots of these with many modern languages, where someone who was familiar with both a foreign language (often a classical or scholarly language) and a
by schoen 5y ago
There are lots of these with many modern languages, where someone who was familiar with both a foreign language (often a classical or scholarly language) and a local language consciously adapted the vocabulary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque
It's always fun and satisfying for me to happen upon these. :-)