köken: From Latin calvus, in turn from Proto-Italic *kalowos, from Proto-Indo-European *klh₂wós, *kl̥H- (“naked, bald”). Compare Spanish calvo, Catalan calb, French chauve and, more distantly related, Sanskrit कुल्व (kulva).
köken: From Byzantine Greek σπανός (spanós), from the first component of Koine Greek σπανοπώγων (spanopṓgōn, “who has a sparse beard”) (see πώγων (pṓgōn, “beard”) for the second component), further from σπάνιος (spánios, “rare, scarce”). Alternatively, directly from σπάνιος (spánios), with the same formation pattern seen in ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) < ὄρθιος (órthios, “id”). Despite similar phonetics…
köken: Uncertain. Hypothesized to be from Proto-Italic *ɣlaðros, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰl̥h₂dʰ-ro- (“smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleh₂dʰ- (“smooth, shiny”), which is reconstructed based on the assumed cognates Proto-Germanic *gladaz (whence German glatt (“smooth”)) and Proto-Balto-Slavic *glā́ˀdus (“smooth”) (whence Lithuanian glodùs (“tool for smoothing”)). These stem from a basic root…
köken: From Proto-Brythonic *llɨvn, from Proto-Celtic *slimnos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“slime, slimy, sticky, slippery”). Cognate with Breton levn, Scottish Gaelic sleamhainn, English slime.
köken: Possibly from Philippine Spanish cotipio. See also obsolete Chamorro kutipio (“to remove hair by plucking or shaving”) and Classical Nahuatl cuātepēhui (“to go bald; to have hair loss”).