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calum
hardness on the skin (
H.S.D.;
cathlum in
M`D.); from Latin
callum,
callus. It is not the obsolete
caladh, hard, Early Irish
calad, Welsh
caled, Old Breton
calat,
*kaleto-, root
kal, hard; Gothic
hallus, stone, Norse
helle,
hallr; Sanskrit
çilâ, stone.
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