calve

Signification (Anglais)

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).

Concepts

vêler

mettre bas

agneler

🐑

pouliner

Synonymes

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

🐣

Traductions

kalben

parir

kalven

figliare

buzağılamak

afkalven

parir

κομματιάζω

xaiar

donar a llum

γεννώ αγελάδα

θρυμματίζω

απορρίπτω

γεννώ

vedellar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɑːv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: calven

Hérité de ancien anglais: *calfian

Appartenant à saterlandais: koolvje

Appartenant à néerlandais: kalven

Appartenant à allemand: kalben

Appartenant à suédois: kalva

Appartenant à islandais: 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.