köken: Inherited from Old French fraye (“fry, spawn”), related to frayer. Cognate to Italian frega, fregolo, fregola (“fry, spawn”), Spanish freza (“fry, spawn”). The similarity to English fry and its Germanic family is a coincidence.
a calf (young cow or bull) · veal · a smaller (geographical) feature next to a larger one, often of a cape or a smaller island next to a larger one or the like, especially in names
çekim: çoğul kalvar · tamlayan kalvs
köken: From Old Swedish kalver, from Old Norse kalfr (“calf”), from Proto-Germanic *kalbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷolbʰo- (“womb, animal young”). Compare Norwegian and Danish kalv, Icelandic kálfur, Dutch kalf, German Kalb, English calf.
calf (young bovine) · calf (young of certain other mammals such as some cervids, cetaceans, pinnipeds, elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippopotami, camels) · a slow-witted person; a dimwit; a dolt
çekim: çoğul cielęta · tamlayan cielęcia
eş: cielak, cielaczek, reg. śl. cielok, fajtłapa
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *telę̀ Old Polish cielę Polish cielę Inherited from Old Polish cielę.
calf (young cow or bull) · calf (the young of another large mammal, such as a deer, roe, bison, giraffe, elephant, whale, seal, hippopotamus, etc.) · synonym of borjúhús (“veal”, the flesh of a calf [i.e. a young bovine] used for food)
çekim: çoğul borjúk
köken: Borrowed from Oghur before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries), from Proto-Turkic *buŕagu. Compare Chuvash пӑру (păru, “calf”), Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆 (b¹uzǧu /buzaɣu/), Ottoman Turkish بوزاغو (buzağı, “calf”). The word can also be found in the Mongolic languages. The form that arrived in the Hungarian language was probably *buraɣu.
From Middle Dutch cute (“spawn; fleshy body part, e.g. buttock, calf, back of the upper arm”). Further origin unknown. Possibly related with kont (“buttocks”) or with Sanskrit गुद (guda, “entrails”); according to Pokorny, all are derived Proto-Indo-European *gēu- (“to arch bend”), see also German Kugel. Cognate with Middle Low German kūte.