Note 588 — Chapter II · THE SURVIVAL OF PAGAN DEITIES. (continued 4)

The word καλίκι or καλίγι is a diminutive form from the Latin caliga. Besides its original meaning ‘shoe,’ it has acquired now the sense of ‘hoof.’ The transition was clearly through the sense of ‘horse-shoe,’ as witness the verb καλιγόνω, ‘I shoe a horse.’