Where does “kalk” come from?
kalk (Serbo-Croatian) 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.
kalk (Serbo-Croatian): calque
Ancestry of “kalk”, 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 | — |
| 6 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | — |
| 7 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | — |
Words derived from “kalk”