Where does “kalkeo” come from?
kalkeo (Esperanto) comes from French calque, from French calquer, from English ER, from Turkish er, from Ottoman Turkish ایر, from Old Anatolian Turkish ایر, from Proto-Turkic ēder — saddle.
kalkeo (Esperanto): calque
Definitions
- calque
Ancestry of “kalkeo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | calque | tracing; calque, loan translation; layer |
| 2 | French | calquer | to model, to imitate, to copy; to trace, to copy... |
| 3 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 4 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 5 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 6 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 7 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |