franker
See also: Franker
English
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse frakkar pl, from Proto-Germanic *frankô m (“spear”), cognate with Old English franca (“spear”), Franca (“Frank”), German Franke. Borrowed to Medieval Latin Francus, Old French franc (“free, sincere”), Byzantine Greek Φράγκος (Phránkos, “Frank, person from Western Europe”), Arabic إِفْرَنْجِيّ (ʔifranjiyy, “Frank, person from Western Europe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfʁɑŋˀkʰisɡ̊], [ˈfʁɑŋˀɡ̊ɐ]
Noun
franker c (singular definite frankeren, plural indefinite frankere)
- (historical) a Frank (a person from the historical Germanic tribe of the Franks)
- (obsolete) Frenchman
- (obsolete) West European (seen from the point of view of the Greeks and Middle Eastern people)
- Franconian (a person from the German region of Franconia)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse frankar pl.
Derived terms
See also
- frankar (Nynorsk)
References
- “franker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old Swedish
Declension
Declension of franker (strong a-stem)
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