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karl
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)
- farmhand (a man working at at farm)
- groom, ostler (a man looking after horses)
- (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)
- man (male human)
- husband
- male of a species
- (video games) a character (in a video game, or in a RPG)
- (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
- 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
- Danish: Karl, Carl
- ? 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
- Swedish: Karli, Karle, Carli, Carlie, Karly, Kalle, Calle
- Old Danish: Karli
- Danish: Karli, Karly, Kalle, Calle
- ? Greenlandic: Kaali
- Danish: Karli, Karly, Kalle, Calle
- ? 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
- man (male human)
- husband
- (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
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charles
Asturian
Verb
charles
- second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of charlar
Spanish
Verb
charles
- Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of charlar.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of charlar.
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