stafkarl
Old Norse
noun
Definitions
- poor beggar
Etymology
Compound from Old Norse stafr (staff, stick, rod, support) + Old Norse karl (man, husband, male)root from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (stem, post, stiffen).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*stebʰ-
Gloss
stem, post, stiffen
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
茎
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- σταφυλή Ancient Greek
- *stebʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- kar Norwegian Bokmål
- *bōkastabaz Proto-Germanic
- *karilaz Proto-Germanic
- *karlaz Proto-Germanic
- *stabaz Proto-Germanic
- *stapulaz Proto-Germanic
- kar Norwegian Nynorsk
- stakkar Norwegian Nynorsk
- carl Old English
- Stafangr Old Norse
- arftǫkukarl Old Norse
- bókstafr Old Norse
- karl Old Norse
- karlmaðr Old Norse
- kerling Old Norse
- stafr Old Norse
- karl Danish
- karl Icelandic
- stafur Icelandic
- kallur Faroese
- stavur Faroese
- karilʀ Old Swedish
- staver Old Swedish
- stav Westrobothnian
- staf Old Danish
- kall Elfdalian
- ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ Proto-Norse
- ᛋᛏᚼᛒᚼ Proto-Norse