It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. - eviltoast
  • Dojan@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is true, I don’t know which word came first. I’d wager a guess that 蚤の市 predates フリーマーケット, but it’s really just a stab in the dark on the basis that English loanwords feel more modern, and it feels unlikely that a calque would be created after a loanword has been widely adopted.