kalkon
Esperanto
[edit]Noun
[edit]kalkon
- accusative singular of kalko
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Low German kalkûn or Dutch kalkoen, nominalisation of kalkûnsche höner or kalkoensche haan "hen from Calicut" (modern Kozhikode, India).[1][2] Doublet of kalikå.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kalkon c
- a turkey; a kind of large bird
- (colloquial) a turkey; a failure
Declension
[edit]Declension of kalkon
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ kalkon in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- ^ kalkon in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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