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Bulgarian
Etymology
Borrowed from French calque.
Pronunciation
Noun
ка́лка • (kálka) f
- calque
Declension
References
- “калка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “калка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
Macedonian
Pronunciation
Noun
калка • (kalka) f
- calque
Declension
Southern Altai
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Turkic *Kạl(ɨ)- (kalk(ɨ)-).
Noun
калка • (kalka)
- shield of shed
- Khalkha
References
- “калка”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN, page 187
- Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, columns 250, 251
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura