perfect synonyms

[Victor]

That would mean that every calque falls into the same category.

Also, given that there are other "aard-" words borrowed into English
(make that _one_ other word), I might still look at it as a compound,
but I am possibly just being facetious.

    VS-)

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> A pair like "aardvark" and "earth-pig" might work, but "earth-pig" is rather
> factitious (besides being open to the charge of binomialism or compounding,
> unlike "aardvark," at lest in English). Neither "gorse" nor "furze" is
> factitious.
>
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