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 Translation for 'calque' from English to Finnish
NOUN   a calque | calques
VERB   to calque | calqued | calqued
calquing | calques
SYNO calque | calque formation | loan translation
kiel.
käännöslaina {noun}
calque
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Translation for 'calque' from English to Finnish

calque
käännöslaina {noun}kiel.
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Usage Examples English
  • A Sveticism (...) is a grammatical construction, loanword or calque originating from the Swedish language.
  • The four translation methods are emphasized in order to translate neologisms: transliteration, transcription, the use of analogues, calque or loan translation.
  • The expression comes from Louisianan legal language and is ultimately a calque of Spanish "sucesión forzosa".
  • Louis Léger stated that the Polabians adopted Perun as their name for Thursday ("Perendan" or "Peräunedån"), which is likely a calque of German "Donnersdag".
  • The word "foreword" was first used around the mid-17th century, originally as a term in philology. It was possibly a calque of German "Vorwort", itself a calque of Latin "praefatio".

  • The term "Mixed music" is probably a calque of the French "musique mixte" which connotes the same material and stylistic implications.
  • So ‘loanword’ is originally an exact copy of the German compound, or calque.
  • Aircraft cavern, a calque of the German word "Flugzeugkaverne", is an underground hangar amongst others used by the Swiss Air Force.
  • "Egg puffs" is an English calque translation of the German "Eierschöberl". In Polish, these are known as "groszek ptysiowy", or "puff peas".
  • The term "calque" itself is a loanword from the French noun [...] ("tracing, imitation, close copy"), while the word "loanword" is a calque of the German noun "Lehnwort".

  • For example, the English word "stiff-necked", meaning "stubborn", is a calque of Greek σκληροτράχηλος, which is a calque of Hebrew קשה עורף "qeshēh ʿōref" "hard of neck; stubborn".
  • The word "liverwurst" is a partial calque of German [...] 'liver sausage', and 'liver sausage', a full calque.
  • Cooking Lake's name is a calque of its Cree language name, [...].
  • In the Iranian languages, the term "*hwatā́wā" 'lord, sovereign; ("literally") self-ruler' might be an intentional calque from Greek [...] (presumably arisen in the Hellenistic period).
  • In many modern languages, the word for a honeymoon is a calque (e.g., [...]) or near-calque. [...] Persian has a similar word, "mah-e-asal", which translates to "month of honey" or "moon of honey".

  • The word "calque" is a loanword from the French noun "calque" ("tracing; imitation; close copy"); while the word "loanword" and the phrase "loan translation" are calques of the German nouns "Lehnwort" and "Lehnübersetzung".
  • has come into English both in borrowed forms like "evangelical" and the form "gospel", an English calque (Old English [...] 'good tidings') of [...] , itself a calque of the Greek.
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