calf

• n.[解剖学]腓腹筋、ふくらはぎ、子牛、子牛の皮膚、（クジラなどの大型哺乳類の）子牛

子、イルカと語源は同じ。

calf

calf: English has two distinct words calf, both of Germanic origin. Calf ‘young cow’ goes back to Old English cealf, descendant of a prehistoric West Germanic *kalbam, which also produced German kalb and Dutch kalf. Calf of the leg [14] was borrowed from Old Norse kálfi, of unknown origin.

calf (n.1)

"young cow," Old English cealf (Anglian c?lf) "young cow," from Proto-Germanic *kalbam (cognates: Middle Dutch calf, Old Norse kalfr, German Kalb, Gothic kalbo), perhaps from PIE *gelb(h)-, from root *gel- "to swell," hence, "womb, fetus, young of an animal." Elliptical sense of "leather made from the skin of a calf" is from 1727. Used of icebergs that break off from glaciers from 1818.

calf (n.2)

fleshy part of the lower leg, early 14c., from Old Norse kalfi, source unknown; possibly from the same Germanic root as calf (n.1).

1. The snow，except where it drifted，was only calf -deep.

吹雪いて積もった場所を除いて、雪は足の腹だけが深い。

2.I rubbed the velvety grooves inside the calf 's ears.

子牛の耳の中の柔らかい溝をさすっています。

3.Hillsden was complain-ing of cramp in his calf muscles.

ヒルズデンはふくらはぎがけいれんしていると言った。

4.He suffered a pulled calf muscle.

彼はふくらはぎの筋肉を引き裂いた。

5.I 've torn a calf muscle.

ふくらはぎの筋肉を引き裂いた。