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→ Proto-West Germanic: *kalik (see there for further descendants)
References
“calix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“calix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
calix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
calix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“calix”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“calix”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
^ Julius Pokorny, Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 1959.