Talk:List of calques

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 * Commonplace
 * Finno-Ugric
 * Overman
 * Standpoint
 * Subliminal
 * literal

IMHO the disambiguation page is the correct landing page for these: Webhat (talk) 11:53, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Congruence principle
 * Old guard
 * floodlight

The page needs a lot of cleaning up. Could we agree to delete all the "citation needed" items? Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:58, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

some Swedish calques from Latin (needs more research)

 * uttryck is a calque of "expression", (since trycka means "to press" and ut means "out" as the Latin "ex")
 * intryck similarly calques "impression".
 * oavhängig calques "independent".

I'm sure there are more, but they are not coming to mind right now. Also, I'm hesitant to add these directly to the article, because I'd like to find some source or reference to explain the mechanism for these calques. 174.25.73.211 (talk) 20:30, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

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From Hebrew: Scapegoat
The actual full term is שעיר לעזאזל 'Sair to/for Azazel', שעיר (Sʿir) and עז (ʿz) are both word for goat. In this case the word Sair is the one referring to the goat. The Interpretation given for Azazel could be Tyndale's but at any rate it's not obvious or necessarily valid.--Nngnna (talk) 09:17, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Spanish "grado"
Spanish "grado" is used only to denote a school level (first grade, second grade), not a test rating. For that purpose, the word "nota" or "calificación" is used exclusively and extensively

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tico73 (talk • contribs) 18:51, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Primer grado first grade.
 * Obtuvo buenas notas He/she/it had good grades.
 * Calificar To grade something or someone.

German Fernsprecher
Since the telephone was called "Telephon" by Philip Reis (it‘s German inventor), it is probably a calque from Latin, certainly not from English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:3032:40F:570B:6036:FA20:8FE9:A7AE (talk) 02:52, 16 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Greek, rather. —Tamfang (talk) 02:40, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

chop chop
How is chop chop a calque? The English word chop has no relevant meaning (afaik); only the sound was borrowed. —Tamfang (talk) 02:08, 23 September 2023 (UTC)