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this name as perhaps 'possessing hard feet' ("alluding to standfastness or endurance"), from the Proto-Celtic roots *kal- 'hard' and *ped- 'foot', with *ped- contracting to -ed-. The singular form of the ethnic name is attested as Caledo (a Latinization of the Brittonic nominative singular n-stem *Calidu) on a Romano-British inscription from Colchester. However, some authors have doubted the link between Calidones and kalet-

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