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English is a germanic language. Is loanword an actual calque, and not an "evolved" version of a root word?
No, it was imported from German. Frisian and Dutch have "lienwurd" and "leenwoord" too (also calqued from German)
English is a Germanic language, with a lot of it's vocabulary imported from a Romance language (French). Hilarity ensues.
Loanword came into the language around 1860 so it is a claque. If it had been in the vocabulary since old-english then it would just be an evolved version of the German root.
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