Veal
/viːl/noun
The meat of a young calf.
Did you know?Veal comes from the Old French word for a calf, and the same Latin root behind it also gave English the word calf through a different path.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*gʷou-
“cow, ox”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*kū
“cow”
Old English
English
cealf
“young bovine, calf”
Old French
Old French
veel
“calf; meat of a calf”
Middle English
English
veel
“meat of a calf”
Modern English
English
veal
“meat of a young calf”