callow

From Middle English calwe (“(adjective) bald; (noun) bald person”), from Old English calu, caluw (“without hair, bald, callow”), from Proto-West Germanic kalu, from Proto-Germanic kalwaz (“bald; bare, naked”), and then either: from Proto-Indo-European gol(H)-wo- (“bald; bare, naked”), from *gelH- (“head; naked”); or from Latin calvus (“bald”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kl̥H- (“bald; naked”). If not borrowed from Latin, Grimm’s law indicates that the Latin word is likely a false cognate, along with Persian کل (kal) and Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá). cognates * Dutch kaal (“bald”) * German kahl (“bald”) * German Low German kahl (“bald”) * Russian го́лый (gólyj, “bare, naked, nude”) * Swedish kal, kalka (“bald”) * West Frisian keal (“bald”)

From Irish caladh (“meadow by a riverbank”), from Old Irish calad (“shore, landing, port”), probably a noun use of calad (“hard”, adjective), from Proto-Celtic kaletos (“cruel; hard; strong”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European ḱlH-eto- (“cold”) (in the sense of something frozen and thus hard), from an unclear root ḱl(H)- or kl(H)- (“hard”); or related to Proto-Germanic halluz (“boulder, rock, stone”), from Proto-Indo-European (s)kel- (“to cut, hew”).