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kalverig
in Low German
Pronunciation:
/kalvəɾɪç/
adjective
Syllabication:
kal·ve·rig
kalviger
kalvigst
[1]
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Westmünsterland:
Bernhard Nienhaus:
Plattdeutsch in Rhade
Oldenburg:
Artur vor Mohr:
Vocalstand des oldenburgischen Niederdeutsch.
Soltau, Norden 1904, page 13
PDF, 1.6 MB
Cuxland:
Heinrich Teut:
Hadeler Wörterbuch: der plattdeutsche Wortschatz des Landes Hadeln (Niederelbe).
Wachholtz, 1959, volume 2, page 314
Ost-Mecklenburg:
Carl Friedrich Müller:
Reuter-Lexikon.
Leipzig 1905, Hesse & Becker Verlag, page 65
PDF, 5.1 MB
Low Saxon:
alvern
English:
silly
goofy
foolish
German:
albern
Examples:
Heff
di
nich
so
kalverig
!
Etymology:
Compound word constructed from:
Kalf
+
-ig
Rhyming words
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Plattmakers is a Low German dictionary that also provides translations in several languages. Get more infos.