drake
Swedish
/ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/
noun
Definitions
- dragon
- kite
- a male duck, drake
- a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish draki inherited from Old Norse dreki derived from Middle Low German drake derived from *drakō (dragon).
Origin
*drakō
Gloss
dragon
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
竜
Emoji
🐲
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- traakki Finnish
- traakkipuu Finnish
- dracō Latin
- δράκων Ancient Greek
- drakkula Swedish
- draksegel Swedish
- kula Swedish
- segel Swedish
- drake Norwegian Nynorsk
- draca Old English
- dreki Old Norse
- drage Danish
- dreki Icelandic
- trahho Old High German
- dreki Faroese
- *drakō gmw-pro
- drake Middle Low German
- draki Old Swedish