köken: From Late Middle High German verse, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *farsijā, derived (with Verner alternation) from Proto-Germanic *farzaz (“bull, ox”), whence obsolete German Farre. Cognate with Dutch vaars. The word is not attested in High German before the 15th century and apparently alien to modern dialects outside the borderlands with Low German. Therefore likely borrowed through Middle…
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.
heifer (young female cow, particularly one which has not yet calved)
çekim: çoğul hiehot · tamlayan hiehon
köken: PIE word *h₁éḱwos From Proto-Finnic *hëhva (compare dialectal hiehvo, Estonian õhv, Livonian õ’v, Votic õhvõ), probably borrowed from Proto-Baltic *éśwāˀ (compare Lithuanian ašva (“mare”)).
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.