Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname.
German surname, from the adjective kahl (“bald”). Also from Kahl am Main in Lower Franconia, itself named after the River Kahl, from Old High German kaldaha (literally “the cold river”), from kalt (“cold”) + aha (“river”). Compare Cale.
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- Derivation mentionkaldahagoh
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