different between matt vs karl

English

Adjective

matt (comparative more matt, superlative most matt)

1. (chiefly British spelling) alternative spelling of matte

Noun

matt (plural matts)

1. (film) Alternative spelling of matte (“background, often painted or created with computers”)
2. Alternative spelling of mat (“an alloy in coppersmithing”)

Estonian

Noun

matt (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. checkmate (chess)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• matt in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/
• Rhymes: -at

Adjective

matt (comparative matter, superlative am mattesten)

1. dull (not shiny)
2. exhausted, weak, feeble (not lively, vigorous, energetic)
   • 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 624:

Declension

See also

• schachmatt
• mattsetzen

Descendants

• ? Polish: mat

Further reading

• “matt” in Duden online

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *matadak.

Verb

matt

1. (Salaca) creep

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: Matt

Adjective

matt (masculine matten, neuter matt, comparative méi matt, superlative am mattsten)

1. matte, dull, wan
2. feeble, weary

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French mat and German matt

Adjective

matt (neuter singular matt, definite singular and plural matte, comparative mattere, indefinite superlative mattest, definite superlative matteste)

1. (colour) dull, matt
2. weak, feeble, listless
3. (chess) checkmated
4. (glass) frosted

References

• “matt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French mat and German matt

Adjective

matt (neuter singular matt, definite singular and plural matte, comparative mattare, indefinite superlative mattast, definite superlative mattaste)

1. (colour) dull, matt
2. weak, feeble, listless
3. (chess) checkmated
4. (glass) frosted

References

• “matt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German matt.

Adjective

matt

1. weak, faint

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/

Adjective

matt (comparative mattare, superlative mattast)

1. weak, listless
2. (of colours) matte
3. (chess) checkmate, in the phrase göra någon matt

Declension

Antonyms

• (of colours): blank

Related terms

• mattsvart
• schack matt

See also

• mätt
• matta

Anagrams

• tamt

Westrobothnian

Adverb

matt

1. Alternative form of mått

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