kalfi
Old Norse
editEtymology 1
editUnknown; compare dialectal German Kalb (“muscle”), itself from Proto-Germanic *kalbaz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkalfi m (genitive kalfa, plural kalfar)
- calf (part of the leg)
Declension
edit Declension of kalfi (weak an-stem)
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: kálfi
- Faroese: kálvi
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kalve; (dialectal) kæłve, kålve, kåvi
- Norwegian Bokmål: kalve
- Old Swedish: kalver
- Swedish: kalv
- → Middle English: calf, calfe
References
edit- kálfi in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- “kalfi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2
editNoun
editkalfi