The process by which a new word, pronunciation, phrase, or sense enters one language from another; for example, the loan word racoon came into English from the Native American language Algonquin. Calque A lexical borrowing strategy in which the recipient language, rather than copying the phonological form of a word or term, translates each morpheme directly into the native language, creating an equivalent idiom. For example, early translators of the Bible in English rendered the Latin term remorsus ‘remorse' as "again-bite" and the Latin term reflectěre ‘reflect' as "again-shine."