Etymology

callant

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Middle Dutch calant ← Picard kalant ← Old Northern French calant
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromchaloir“to heat, to care about”
  2. Old Northern French · derived fromcalant
  3. Picard · derived fromkalant
  4. Middle Dutch · derived fromcalant
  5. English todaycallant

From Middle Dutch calant (Modern Dutch klant), from Picard kalant, from Old Northern French calant, from Old French chaloir (“to heat, to care about”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.