calve

Significat (Anglès)

1. (intransitive) To give birth to a calf.
2. (intransitive) To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf.
3. (transitive) To give birth to (a calf).
4. (especially, figuratively, intransitive) To shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg).
5. (especially, figuratively, intransitive) To break off.
6. (especially, figuratively, transitive) To shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg).

Conceptes

parir

donar a llum

anyellar

vedellar

xaiar

Sinònims

yean

foal

have young

break up

give birth to

break

break down

break off

breed

bring forth

engender

fall apart

fawn

fracture

generate

give birth

lay

litter

nark

originate

procreate

shear

sire

snitch

whelp

crock up

be delivered of a young

bear

🐻

drop a litter

bear out

beget

blab

born

🐣

Traduccions

kalben

parir

vêler

mettre bas

figliare

parir

afkalven

kalven

buzağılamak

γεννώ αγελάδα

pouliner

απορρίπτω

Wade

vitulum pario

agneler

🐑

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kɑːv/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: calven

Heretat de anglès antic: *calfian

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: koolvje

Cognat amb neerlandès: kalven

Cognat amb alemany: kalben

Cognat amb suec: kalva

Cognat amb islandès: kálfa

In summary

From Middle English calven, from Old English *calfian, cealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *kalbōn, from Proto-Germanic *kalbōną (“to calve”), from *kalbaz (“calf”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian koolvje, Dutch kalven, German Low German kalven, German kalben, Swedish kalva, Icelandic kálfa.