2.2.1. Calques
Calques are complex lexical items, such as exocentric compounds [Morphology - 1.1.1.1.2.], which are translated verbatim into TİD. In the examples below, head is combined with hit and attach to produce the compounds that mean ‘(put in an) application’ and ‘be obsessed with’, respectively. The term for ‘put in an application’ in Turkish is başvur, a noun-verb compound made up of the words baş ‘head’ and vur ‘hit’. Similarly, the term for ‘be obsessed with’ in Turkish is kafaya tak, a noun-verb compound made up of the words kafaya ‘head-DAT’ and tak ‘attach’.
head ^hit
‘(put in an) application’
head ^attach
‘be obsessed with’
Another example is sun^hold ‘solar eclipse’, which is, again, a direct translation from Turkish:
sun^ ------------------------------hold--------------------------
'solar eclipse'
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