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Where does “калька” come from?

калька (Russian) 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.

калька (Russian): tracing paper; tracing; calque

Definitions

  1. tracing paper; tracing; calque

Ancestry of “калька”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcalquetracing; calque, loan translation; layer
2Frenchcalquerto model, to imitate, to copy; to trace, to copy...
3EnglishERThe statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of...
4Turkisherearly; brave; man, male
5Ottoman Turkishایر—
6Old Anatolian Turkishایر—
7Proto-Turkicēder—
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