"`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Somehow I have a feeling that конъюнктурный in this case is a calque from the English conjecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: DOSTOEVSKY AND RUSSIAN PUNCTUATION.] Reference

Ringbom also suggests that misspellings, borrowings and coinage are transfer of form while calque is transfer of meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [E is for Error « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

2. You don't seem to have paid attention to the word "calque" in my comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: GAELIC IN THE EU.] Reference

Home » For Translators » What is a calque?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a calque?] Reference

Of course bienvenue is a calque, but in Canada, language is political.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: GLOSSAIRE FRANCO-CANADIEN.] Reference

There are four types of calque, which we will talk about in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a calque?] Reference

I have heard that “are you coming with?” is a calque of German “kommst du mit?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where are you (at)? « Motivated Grammar] Reference

Unlike a loan, which is a phonetic and morphologic adaptation, calque is a construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a calque?] Reference

"Real estate" in Polish is nieruchomości lit: immovables probably a calque from German.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: DUNGLISH.] Reference

Dr. G, in the NT as in the Septuagint, it's regarded to be a calque from Hebrew and Aramaic.    From Wordnik.com.  [And now for something completely different] Reference

Navajo kids who start learning Dine in kindergarden and speak an English calque is something I heard about back in the early 90s.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THE FUTURE OF IRISH.] Reference

Considered as an import of foreign elements that turn out to be discordant in the target language, a calque can be produced at any level.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a calque?] Reference

There is also “structure calque” in which the syntactic construction is new to the target language science fiction, “ciencia-ficción”.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a calque?] Reference

This is borne out by empirical research (e.g Olsen 1999) CLI researchers tend to classify Lexical transfer as misspellings, borrowings, coinage and calque.    From Wordnik.com.  [E is for Error « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

And yes, I imagine "Bienvenue" is a calque of "You're welcome" -- it's one of those things that happen when languages rub up against each other in close quarters.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: GLOSSAIRE FRANCO-CANADIEN.] Reference

The term is a loan translation or calque of German.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integrating Missionally] Reference

Linguists refer to this kind of borrowing as a calque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference

Nazotte oboeru otona no Kanji (Apprentissage par calque).    From Wordnik.com.  [Comme ça du Japon] Reference

As a calque it would come into English as vocalness, which is no word.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference

In fact, the partial calque on the tapis is still used in English to mean "under consideration.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference

Highly alarming is the assertion that education, Latin educatio (like the German calque Erziehung) was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2] Reference

しかしまづは calque つまりなぞってpresent-day KANA usageとすべきではないでせうか。.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yasukuni: Why the Emperor Stopped Going] Reference

And then there's золотая молодежь (literally, "golden youth"), a calque from the French jeunesse doree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moscow Times] Reference

The Saxon name would be a calque reflecting the fact that the animal and the animal by-product are very often called by the same name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Apple] Reference

At the siege of Lamballe in Brittany, he had taken off his calque and climbed a ladder to examine the breach effected by the batteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

What! have they not decoyed to their head my kinsmen, the heirs of Latimer and Fitzhugh, and bold Coniers, whose steel calque should have circled a wiser brain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

It has been said that some people born in Petrograd (as St. Petersburg was renamed with a Slavic calque in World War I) have lived out their lives in Leningrad and will die in Sankt-Peterburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference

You might prefer staircase wit, or even the German Treppenwitz, a calque from esprit de l’escalier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tintiddle and l’esprit de l’escalier] Reference

Rather, I think what’s going on in the critics’ minds is itself a sort of calque, though a calque from mathematics to human language.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Times Less Than”:] Reference

Itävalta ”Eastern power” for Austria is just a calque based on Österreich; but others — perhaps unsurprisingly, they refer to neighbouring countries — are less easy to guess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign place names (1) | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference

What is a calque?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a calque?] Reference

One Response to “What is a calque?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a calque?] Reference

Oh! frabiusce dies! iterumque caloque calque.    From Wordnik.com.  [literature] Reference

This type of loan is known as a “calque”.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a calque?] Reference

Another danger is 'le calque'.    From Wordnik.com.  [StrategyPage.com] Reference

It's a calque, not a transliteration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Tags: calque, English language, foreign phrase, foreign word, linguistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a calque?] Reference