kalb

See also: Kalb

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *golbʰ-, *gʷolbʰ- 'conglobate, swell'. Compare Latin globus (“a round body, ball, sphere, globe, heap, clump”), Old Norse kalfabōt (“hip area, hip joint of meat”), Old High German wazzarkalb (“swelling, tumescence through water”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kɑlb] (Tosk)
IPA^(key): [qɒlb] (Gheg)

Verb

kalb (first-person singular past tense kalba, participle kalbur)

to rot, go bad

Related terms

qelb
këlbazë
këlboqe

Old High German

Alternative forms

chalb, chalp

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kalbaz.

Noun

kalb n

calf

Declension

declension of kalb

	singular	plural
nominative	kalb	kelbir
accusative	kalb	kelbir
genitive	kalbes	kelbiro
dative	kalbe	kelbirum, kelbirom
instrumental	kalbu, kalbo	kelbirum, kelbirom

Descendants

Middle High German: kalp
- Alemannic German: Chalp
- Central Franconian: Kallev
- Cimbrian: khalp, khalbe
- German: Kalb
- Luxembourgish: Kallef
- Vilamovian: kołp
- Yiddish: קאַלב‎ (kalb)

References

Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

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