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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“round object”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball”). Perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”).
Noun
kolfr m
- clapper, tongue of a bell
- a kind of bolt
- svá skjótt (snart) sem kólfi skjóti (skyti)
- swift as an arrow
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References
- Entry "kólfr" on page 248 in: Geir T. Zoëga "A Concise Dictionary of Old Islandic", Oxford at the Claredon Press (1910).
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “kulba(n)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 309