kalfi

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Unknown; compare dialectal German Kalb (“muscle”), itself from Proto-Germanic *kalbaz.

Pronunciation

  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈkɑlvɪ/

Noun

kalfi m (genitive kalfa, plural kalfar)

  1. calf (part of the leg)
Declension
Declension of kalfi (weak an-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kalfi kalfinn kalfar kalfarnir
accusative kalfa kalfann kalfa kalfana
dative kalfa kalfanum kǫlfum kǫlfunum
genitive kalfa kalfans kalfa kalfanna
Descendants
  • Icelandic: kálfi
  • Faroese: kálvi
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kalve; (dialectal) kæłve, kålve, kåvi
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kalve
  • Old Swedish: kalver
  • → Middle English: calf, calfe

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “kalfi”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 334
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kalfi”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Etymology 2

Noun

kalfi

  1. dative singular of kalfr
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