karl
Swedish
/kɑːr/
noun
Definitions
- man male human
- husband
- (male) member of a work force, employed to perform some particularly heavy or physically demanding job
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish karilʀ inherited from Old Norse karl (man, husband, male) inherited from Proto-Norse ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ inherited from Proto-Germanic *karilaz (elder, man).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*karilaz
Gloss
elder, man
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
男, 夫, 士
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Charlie English
- churl English
- churlish English
- churly English
- *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- kar Norwegian Bokmål
- *karilaz Proto-Germanic
- *karlaz Proto-Germanic
- *kirlaz Proto-Germanic
- dal Swedish
- dalkarl Swedish
- gås Swedish
- gåskarl Swedish
- kör Swedish
- körkarl Swedish
- rosig Swedish
- roskarl Swedish
- trolla Swedish
- trollkarl Swedish
- ung Swedish
- ungkarl Swedish
- kar Norwegian Nynorsk
- stakkar Norwegian Nynorsk
- carl Old English
- carlfugol Old English
- ċeorl Old English
- carl Middle English
- churl Middle English
- arftǫkukarl Old Norse
- karl Old Norse
- karlmaðr Old Norse
- kerling Old Norse
- stafkarl Old Norse
- karl Danish
- karl Icelandic
- karal Old High German
- kallur Faroese
- Kärel Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *karl Old Dutch
- kerl Middle Low German
- karilʀ Old Swedish
- tzirl Old Frisian
- bakukall Elfdalian
- kall Elfdalian
- liuotkall Elfdalian
- puostkall Elfdalian
- weðerkall Elfdalian
- ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ Proto-Norse