kalfi

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Old Norse

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

kalfi m (genitive kalfa, plural kalfar)

calf (part of the leg)

Declension

Declension of kalfi (weak an-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	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
- Swedish: kalv
→ Middle English: calf, calfe
- English: calf
- Scots: cauf, cauve, cawve

References

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

Noun

kalfi

dative singular of kalfr

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