Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo. · Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. · The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals). · A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
From Middle English calf, from Anglian Old English cælf, calf (West Saxon ċealf), from Proto-West Germanic *kalb, from Proto-Germanic *kalbaz, further etymology unknown. Cognates * Scots caff (“calf”) * Scots calf (“calf”) * Scots cauf (“calf”) * Scots cawf (“calf”) * North Frisian Kualev (“calf”) * North Frisian kualew (“calf”) * North Frisian kuulew (“calf”) * Saterland Frisian Koolich (“calf”) * West Frisian keal (“calf”) * German Kalb (“calf”) * Luxembourgish Kallef (“calf”) * Limburgish kalf (“calf”) * Dutch kalf (“calf”) * Vilamovian kołb (“calf”) * Vilamovian kołp (“calf”) * Faroese kálvur (“calf”) * Icelandic kálfur (“calf”) * Danish kalv (“calf”) * Norwegian Bokmål kalv (“calf”) * Norwegian Nynorsk kalv (“calf”) * Swedish kalv (“calf”)
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- Inherited-form mentioncalfenm
- Inherited-form mention*kalbgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*kalbazgem-pro
- Cognate mentioncaffsco
- Cognate mentioncalfsco
- Cognate mentioncaufsco
- Cognate mentioncawfsco
- Cognate mentionKualevfrr
- Cognate mentionkualewfrr
- Cognate mentionkuulewfrr
- Cognate mentionKoolichstq
- Cognate mentionkealfy
- Cognate mentionKalbde · calf
- Cognate mentionKalleflb
- Cognate mentionkalfli
- Cognate mentionkalfnl · calf
- Cognate mentionkołbwym
- Cognate mentionkołpwym
- Cognate mentionkálvurfo
- Cognate mentionkálfuris
- Cognate mentionkalvda
- Cognate mentionkalvnb
- Cognate mentionkalvnn
- Cognate mentionkalvsv · calf
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