krondike
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- a wide ditch, trench or small canal financed through the state (crown) budget
Etymology
Compound from Swedish krona (crown, state, government, coronet) + Swedish dike.
Origin
Swedish
dike
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- krona English
- kruuna Finnish
- kruunu Finnish
- ruunu Finnish
- corōna Latin
- 1-krona Swedish
- 10-krona Swedish
- 2-krona Swedish
- 5-krona Swedish
- Karlskrona Swedish
- brandkronad kungsfågel Swedish
- dike Swedish
- enkrona Swedish
- femkrona Swedish
- krona Swedish
- kronoassistent Swedish
- kronofogde Swedish
- kronvittne Swedish
- kröna Swedish
- ljuskrona Swedish
- tiokrona Swedish
- trädkrona Swedish
- tvåkrona Swedish
- díki Old Norse
- krone Danish
- krona Latvian
- krona Slovak
- krona Lithuanian
- krone Norwegian
- kråvnnå Lule Sami