hwal
Old Saxon
noun
Definitions
- a whale
Etymology
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
- valas Finnish
- Narwal German
- *(s)kʷálos Proto-Indo-European
- hval Norwegian Bokmål
- kval Norwegian Bokmål
- *hwalaz Proto-Germanic
- kval Norwegian Nynorsk
- narkval Norwegian Nynorsk
- horshwæl Old English
- hwæl Old English
- hwælhunta Old English
- hwælhuntoþ Old English
- hwælweg Old English
- whale Middle English
- hrosshvalr Old Norse
- hvalr Old Norse
- reyðarhvalr Old Norse
- hvalur Icelandic
- hvalur Faroese
- *hwal gmw-pro
- walvisk Old Dutch
- *fālēs Proto-Samic
- hval Old Swedish