Re: ceneme (n.) -- plereme (n.)

Ross Clark wrote:

On 24/03/2024 9:41 a.m., HenHanna wrote:

really interesting what Stefan Ram said recently about [Poster Child]
  Here are some examples of Yiddish calques in English:

Why do you think these are Yiddish calques in English, rather than English calques in Yiddish, or common calques from some third language?

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--------- Beyond English:
 It's important to note that Yiddish calques have also influenced other languages, particularly Hebrew.
   For example, the modern Hebrew term for "football" (kaduregel) is a calque of the Yiddish "kugel rund" (literally "round ball").

I'll just add that "kadur regel" or "kaduregel" (soccer) is a calque from
English "football" or from languages that got the term from English.
"Kadur" means "ball (of)" and "regel" means "foot, leg".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/כדורגל
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Jerry Friedman