Words that come from Middle Dutch “colve”

74 words across 27 languages descend from Middle Dutch colve — including golf, golfer, golfing, minigolf, nongolf, nongolfer, golfless, nongolfing.

See the etymology of colve itself →

English (16)

Finnish (14)

Norwegian Bokmål (5)

Czech (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Hungarian (3)

Polish (3)

Chinese (2)

Translingual (2)

Thai (2)

Portuguese (2)

Spanish (2)

Faroese (1)

Korean (1)

Japanese (1)

Italian (1)

Hebrew (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Dutch (1)

Russian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Arabic (1)

Zulu (1)

Burmese (1)

Swahili (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Icelandic (1)