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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
calque .
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Examples
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In fact it seems that the Arabic islām may ultimately derive from the Aramaic nuance of this root “submit”, just as other Aramaic words were borrowed or calqued into Arabic via Islam.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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In fact it seems that the Arabic islām may ultimately derive from the Aramaic nuance of this root “submit”, just as other Aramaic words were borrowed or calqued into Arabic via Islam.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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In fact it seems that the Arabic islām may ultimately derive from the Aramaic nuance of this root “submit”, just as other Aramaic words were borrowed or calqued into Arabic via Islam.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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In fact it seems that the Arabic islām may ultimately derive from the Aramaic nuance of this root “submit”, just as other Aramaic words were borrowed or calqued into Arabic via Islam.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Second, this origin even offers a possible explanation why call on the carpet is usually phrased with on instead of calqued expression on the carpet existed by itself before it was integrated into the idiom call on the carpet.
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It is calqued upon the title of a play that few of the audience would have seen or read (significantly no doubt the drafting of the speech seems to have involved Ronald Miller, himself a dramatist).
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The first of these Gorbachevian buzzwords can be handily calqued into English as ` restructuring. '
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mortgage, literally a “dead pledge”; a pledge by which the landowner remained in possession of the property he staked as security. mortmain, a statute restricting the conveyance of land to the “dead hand” of a religious organization oyez, often calqued as hear ye!,
The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology 2010
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mortmain, a statute restricting the conveyance of land to the “dead hand” of a religious organization oyez, often calqued as hear ye!
The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology 2010
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German Stickstoff ` choke-damp, 'further calqued to Hebrew hanqán from héneq ` suffocation').
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