troll
Polish
noun
Definitions
- troll (supernatural being)
- (colloquial) troll
Etymology
Borrowed from English troll (grotesque creature which lives in hills under bridges, person who provokes others for personal amusement to cause disruption) derived from Old Norse trǫll (conjurer, mage, witch).
Origin
Old Norse
trǫll
Gloss
conjurer, mage, witch
Concept
Semantic Field
Religion and belief
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
🧙 🧙♀️ 🧹 🪄
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Wintroll English
- backtroll English
- countertroll English
- troll English
- trollable English
- trollage English
- trollbuddy English
- trollee English
- troller English
- trollery English
- trollface English
- trollfic English
- trollicious English
- trollish English
- trollism English
- trollist English
- trollistic English
- trollitis English
- trollkind English
- trolllike English
- trollsome English
- trolltard English
- weretroll English
- trollare Italian
- trollen Dutch, Flemish
- trolear Spanish, Castilian
- troll Norwegian Bokmål
- *truzlą Proto-Germanic
- troll Swedish
- troll Norwegian Nynorsk
- trollheim Norwegian Nynorsk
- trǫll Old Norse
- trold Danish
- tröll Icelandic
- โทรลล์ Thai
- trøll Faroese
- טרול Hebrew (modern)
- 트롤 Korean
- tröll Westrobothnian
- trøll Scanian