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What is another word for calque?

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Noun
A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language
“So ‘butt naked’ would be a straightforward calque of a common expression whose word for ‘butt’ had dropped out of the language.”
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