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“I set an hour on my cal every day for a home workout. Then I’d be on calls for three hours, then I’d make a homemade breakfast, take a walk at lunchtime, work on something non-screen-related in the evening, cook dinner and go on a run,” she said.
Same as çal with the usual c:ç alteration in the first letter ( also cek:çek, cep:çep, cipë:çipë, etc.). Northern Gheg word, also used as first and last name, Cal + -i. Lambertz classifies Cali as an Illyrian name, but Çabej considers it unconvincing.
Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
13th century, Afonso Lopes de Baião, En arouca hũa casa faria; republished as chapter 1471, in Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, c.1526:
En arouca hũa casa faria Atantei grã sabor dea fazer Que ia mays custa nõ recearia Nen ar daria rẽ por meu auer Ca ey pedreyꝛos e pedra e cal E desta casa nõ mi mĩgua al Senõ madeyra noua q̃ queria
Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “cal”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
Although common, the usage of cal as a masculine-gender noun is proscribed.
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latincaballus(“horse”), from Latincaballus(“pack horse”), probably of Gaulish origin or from something further east, such as a Scythian and ultimately Proto-Iranian origin. The Romanian word likely went through an earlier hypothetical form *căal or *caual. Compare Aromaniancal.