different between jarl vs jail

English

Etymology

From Old Norse jarl, from Proto-Norse ?????? (erilaz). Cognates include Old English eorl. Doublet of earl.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /j??l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /j??l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l

Noun

jarl (plural jarls)

1. (historical) A medieval Scandinavian nobleman, especially in Norway and Denmark.

Translations

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse jarl, from Proto-Norse ?????? (erilaz), from Proto-Germanic *erlaz, akin to Old English eorl (English earl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jartl/
• Rhymes: -artl

Noun

jarl m (genitive singular jarls, nominative plural jarlar)

1. jarl
2. earl (especially applied to nobles of Britain in modern times)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse jarl

Noun

jarl m (definite singular jarlen, indefinite plural jarler, definite plural jarlene)

1. (historical) jarl (a title given to the highest noblemen in Norse times. Went out of use in the 14th century.)
2. an earl (British nobleman)

References

• “jarl” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse jarl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?rl/

Noun

jarl m (definite singular jarlen, indefinite plural jarlar, definite plural jarlane)

1. (historical) jarl (a title given to the highest noblemen in Norse times. Went out of use in the 14th century).
2. an earl (British nobleman)

References

• “jarl” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ?????? (erilaz), from Proto-Germanic *erlaz.

Noun

jarl m (genitive jarls)

1. (poetic) A highborn, noble man or warrior.
2. earl (in dignity next to the king)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Icelandic: jarl
• Faroese: jallur
• Norwegian: jarl
• Old Swedish: iarl, iærl
  • Swedish: järl
• Old Danish: ierl
• ? Danish: jarl (reborrowed)
• ? English: jarl
• ? Finnish: jaarli
• ? Swedish: jarl (reborrowed)

References

• “jarl” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• jarl in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Alternative forms

• gaol (UK, Australia, Ireland, dated)

Etymology

From Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Vulgar Latin *caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). Doublet of cage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

jail (countable and uncountable, plural jails)

1. A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
2. (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
3. (horse racing) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
4. In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
5. (computing, FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.

Usage notes

• (place of confinement): Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, jail requires no article after certain prepositions: hence in jail (“detained in a jail”), go to jail (“become detained in a jail”), and so on. The forms in a jail, go to a jail, and so on do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the jail, rather than detention there.
• Until Monopoly popularised the spelling jail in the UK and Australia, gaol was the standard spelling in these countries.
• In the United States, there is a formal distinction between the terms jail and prison – the former refers to facilities run by local governments, the later refers to facilities run by the state and federal governments; however, this distinction is not always observed in informal usage. By contrast, in most of the rest of the English-speaking world, the two terms are synonymous.

Synonyms

• (place of confinement): slammer, hoosegow

Hypernyms

• (place of confinement): correctional facility, correctional institution

Coordinate terms

• (place of confinement): big house, prison

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ??? (jel)
• ? Urdu: ???? (jel)

Translations

Verb

jail (third-person singular simple present jails, present participle jailing, simple past and past participle jailed)

1. To imprison.

Synonyms

• imprison
• incarcerate

Translations

Anagrams

• jali