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Often they use corresponding morphemes to the original term, and thus qualify as calques. en.wikipedia.org

The title uncleftish beholding calques atomic theory. en.wikipedia.org

In addition to this are neologisms, often being calques. en.wikipedia.org

This serves as an indication of its pedigree as a calque. en.wikipedia.org

By contrast, some languages have calques of football: their speakers use equivalent terms that combine their words for foot and ball. en.wikipedia.org

The words of foreign origin or loanwords illustrate those processes: calques, loanwords, the distinction between function words and content words. en.wikipedia.org

On the other hand, spill-overs have imported useful source-language calques and loanwords that have enriched the target languages. en.wikipedia.org

Cases are still occasionally used productively as deliberate archaisms, which are often calques of existing phrases. en.wikipedia.org

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