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кал

кал

Erzya

Noun

кал (kal)

  1. fish

Hyponyms


Macedonian

Noun

кал (kal) m

  1. mud

Moksha

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic[1]*kala.

Noun

кал (kal)

  1. fish
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, ISBN 5 7595 0965 9
      ка/л, -лхт — рыба
      ka/l, -lxt — ryba
      fish [plural ending] — fish [in Russian]
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, ISBN 5 7595 0822 9
      Максода тейне кило́ кал / банка калонь консе́рва.
      Maksoda tejne kiló kal / banka kalonʹ konsérva.
      [Please] give me a kilo of fish / a can of canned fish.
      Аряда калонь кунда́ма!
      Arjada kalonʹ kundáma!
      Let's go fishing (lit. "catching fish")!

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Derived terms

References

  1. kala in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, ISBN 978-9985-79-478-4

Russian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old East Slavic калъ (kalŭ, mud, muddy puddle, scum, sewage), from Proto-Slavic *kalъ (mud, swamp)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kal]

Noun

кал (kal) m inan (genitive ка́ла, nominative plural ка́лы, genitive plural ка́лов)

  1. dung, excrement, feces, poo
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Etymology 2

Abbreviation of кало́рия (kalórija, calorie).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɐˈlorʲɪjə] (phonetic respelling: кало́рия)

Noun

кал (kal) f inan (indeclinable)

  1. cal, calorie

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kalъ, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂los (dark), whence also Latin cālīgō (darkness, gloom) and Sanskrit काल (kāla, black).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kâːl/

Noun

ка̑л m (Latin spelling kȃl)

  1. mud

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