calveren

English

Alternative forms

• calver
• car, care, cair, cawar, caur (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English calveren, alteration of calver (“calves”), from Old English cealfru (“calves”), plural of cealf (“calf”), equivalent to calf +‎ -ren.

Noun

calveren

1. Obsolete or dialectal plural of calf.

Anagrams

• vernacle

Middle English

Etymology

From calver (“calves”) with pleonastic addition of the plural suffix -en; compare children, eyren, lambren.

Noun

calveren

1. plural of calf (“young cow”)