different between carl vs karl

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English carl, from Old English carl, a borrowing from Old Norse karl (“man, husband”), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Doublet of churl.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??l?/

Noun

carl (plural carls)

1. A rude, rustic man; a churl.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) A stingy person; a niggard.

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain.

Alternative forms

• carle

Verb

carl (third-person singular simple present carls, present participle carling, simple past and past participle carled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.
   • , New York 2001, p.210:

     […] full of ache, sorrow, and grief, children again, dizzards, they carle many times as they sit, and talk to themselves, they are angry, waspish, displeased with everything […]

Anagrams

• ACLR, CRLA

Old English

Etymology

From Old Norse karl (Swedish karl (“man”)), from Proto-Germanic *karlaz (“man, male”). Cognate with Old High German karl, karal and related to Old English ?eorl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?rl/, [k?r?l]

Noun

carl m

1. a freeman, a man of middle rank or social class (in Norse and Anglo-Saxon society)
2. (by extension) a man
3. (by extension, in compounds) a male

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse karl (“man”), from Proto-Norse ??????? (karilaz), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz, cognate with English churl, German Kerl, Dutch kerel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??l/, [?k?æ?l]

Noun

karl c (singular definite karlen, plural indefinite karle)

1. farmhand (a man working at at farm)
2. groom, ostler (a man looking after horses)
3. (informal) bloke, chap, guy

Inflection

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Norse ??????? (karilaz), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?artl/, [k?ärt??]
• IPA^(key): /k?atl/, [k?ät??]
• Rhymes: -artl
• Rhymes: -atl

Noun

karl m (genitive singular karls, nominative plural karlar)

1. man (male human)
2. husband
3. male of a species
4. (video games) a character (in a video game, or in a RPG)
5. (chess) a chess piece, a chessman

Declension

Synonyms

• (man): karlmaður m, maður m
• (husband): eiginmaður m, maður m
• (male of a species): karldýr n
• (a character): persóna f, tölvuleikapersóna f
• (chess piece): taflmaður m, maður m

Derived terms

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• kall

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ??????? (karilaz), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Compare Old English ceorl, Old High German karal, karl.

Noun

karl m

1. a man

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Icelandic: karl
• Faroese: kallur
• Norwegian: kall, kar (Bokmål), kar (Nynorsk)
• Old Swedish: karil?
  • Swedish: karl
• Elfdalian: kall
• Danish: karl
• Jamtish: kall, karr (< *karaz)
• Westrobothnian: kjall, kjar (< *karaz)
• ? Old Norse: Karl (given name)
  • Icelandic: Karl, Carl
  • Faroese: Karl
  • Norwegian: Karl, Carl
  • Old Swedish: Karl
    • Swedish: Karl, Carl
  • Old Danish: Karl
    • Danish: Karl, Carl
      • ? Greenlandic: Karl, Kaarali, Kaarale
  • ? Old Norse: Karli, Karle, Kalli (diminutive)
    • Icelandic: Karli
    • Norwegian: Karly, Karle, Kalle, Calle
    • Old Swedish: Karle, Kalle
      • Swedish: Karli, Karle, Carli, Carlie, Karly, Kalle, Calle
        • ? Estonian: Kalle
    • Old Danish: Karli
      • Danish: Karli, Karly, Kalle, Calle
        • ? Greenlandic: Kaali
    • ? Finnish: Karli, Karle, Kaarle, Kalle, Kale, Kali, Kalla, Kallu
      • ? Estonian: Kalle
      • ? Swedish: Kaarle
    • ? Sami: Gállá, Kálle
  • ? English: Karl, Carl
    • ? Cebuano: Karl, Carl
  • ? Finnish: Karl
  • ? Sami: Kárral
• ? Middle English: carl
  • Scots: carl, cairl, karl
  • English: carl

References

• karl in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish karil?, from Old Norse karl, from Proto-Norse ??????? (karilaz), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??r/
• Homophone: kar

Noun

karl c

1. man (male human)
2. husband
3. (male) member of a work force, employed to perform some particularly heavy or physically demanding job

Usage notes

Has connotations of being manly, and is as such somewhat frowned upon by certain feminists; but it also may have connotations of being able to perform a certain task. Compare the formulaic expression karl för sin ... (with some attribute), which denotes someone who is up to par with his role, and is able to perform at least by some minimal standards on his own. Here the role is usually something associated with the given attribute, though karl för sin hatt is associated with a more generic male role.

Declension

See also

• karl för sin hatt
• karlakarl

Anagrams

• klar