hval
Old Swedish
noun
Definitions
- whale
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse hvalr (whale) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (whale).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hwalaz
Gloss
whale
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
鯨
Emoji
🐋 🐳
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- vaali Finnish
- valas Finnish
- Narwal German
- *(s)kʷálos Proto-Indo-European
- hval Norwegian Bokmål
- kval Norwegian Bokmål
- *hwalaz Proto-Germanic
- behandlingsval Swedish
- grindval Swedish
- kommunalval Swedish
- presidentval Swedish
- urval Swedish
- val Swedish
- valberedning Swedish
- valfri Swedish
- valfråga Swedish
- valkrets Swedish
- valrav Swedish
- valresultat Swedish
- kval Norwegian Nynorsk
- narkval Norwegian Nynorsk
- hwæl Old English
- hrosshvalr Old Norse
- hvalr Old Norse
- reyðarhvalr Old Norse
- hvalur Icelandic
- hvalur Faroese
- *hwal gmw-pro
- walvisk Old Dutch
- hwal Old Saxon
- *fālēs Proto-Samic