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.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *pohkëda + -e, derived from Proto-Uralic *počka (whence Erzya пукшо (pukšo, “rump, thigh”)). The verb shares its root with potka; the root with -hk- goes back to *-šk-, which has split irregularly from *-čk- (which developed into the -tk- in potka). The same split is also seen in puhjeta, putkahtaa.
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 Proto-Brythonic *llọɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *lāɸigos (“calf”) (compare Old Irish lóeg, Welsh llo, Breton leue), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“cattle”).