kalb

See also: Kalb

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *golbʰ-, *gʷolbʰ- 'conglobate, swell'. Compare Latin globus (“a round body, ball, sphere, globe, heap, clump”), Old Norse kalfabōt (“hip area, hip joint of meat”), Old High German wazzarkalb (“swelling, tumescence through water”).

Pronunciation

Verb

kalb (first-person singular past tense kalba, participle kalbur)

  1. to rot, go bad

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • chalb, chalp

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kalbaz.

Noun

kalb n

  1. calf

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle High German: kalp
    • Alemannic German: Chalp
    • Central Franconian: Kallev
    • German: Kalb
    • Luxembourgish: Kallef
    • Vilamovian: kołp
    • Yiddish: קאַלב‎ (kalb)

References

  1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
  2. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
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