karl
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse karl (“man”), from Proto-Norse ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (karilaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz, cognate with English churl, German Kerl, Dutch kerel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaːˀl/, [ˈkʰæˀl]
Noun
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Norse ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (karilaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰartl/, [kʰärt͡ɬ]
listen (file) - IPA(key): /kʰatl/, [kʰät͡ɬ]
listen (file) - 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
Derived terms
- karlakór
- karlaveldi
- karldýr
- karlfauskur
- karlkyn
- karlleggur
- karlmaður
- karlmannlegur
- karlmenni
- karlmennska
- karlremba
Norwegian Nynorsk
References
- “karl” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Norse ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (karilaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Compare Old English ceorl, Old High German karal, karl.
Declension
Derived terms
- akrgerðikarl m (“ploughman, reaper”)
- arftǫkukarl m (“one taken as someone who has made another his heir”)
- augnakarl m (“pan of the hip-joint”)
- barnakarl m (“a children's friend”)
- bragðakarl m (“sly fellow”)
- búandkarl m (“farmer”)
- búkarl m (“farmer”)
- ellikarl m (“old man”)
- ferjukarl m (“ferryman”)
- fretkarl m (“contemptible fellow”)
- heljarkarl m (“one doomed to die, accursed”)
- hærukarl m (“hoary (old) man”)
- hórkarl m (“adulterer”)
- húskarl m (“housecarl”)
- karlafolk n (“male folk”)
- karlafǫt n pl (“men's attire”)
- karlasæti n (“seat for men”)
- karldyrr f pl (“the men's door”)
- karlefni n (“a promising lad”)
- karlfjǫldi m (“multitude of men”)
- karlfǫt n pl
- karlgildr (“as good as a man”)
- karlhǫfuð n (“a man's head (carved)”)
- karlhǫfði m (“a carved man's head, figurehead”)
- karlkenndr (“masculine”)
- karlklæði n (“men's clothes”)
- karlkostr m (“a (good) match”)
- karlkyn n (“the male sex”)
- karlleggr m (“agnates”)
- karlmaðr m (“man”)
- karlmennska f (“manhood, valour”)
- karlsift (“on the male side”)
- karlsvipt f (“relationship by descent on the male side”)
- kerling f
- kolakarl m (“charcoal-maker”)
- kotkarl m (“cottager”)
- okrkarl m (“usurer”)
- plógkarl m (“ploughman”)
- saltkarl m (“salt-burner”)
- skrafkarl m (“chatterbox”)
- skrattakarl m (“vile wizard”)
- skítkarl m (“dirty fellow”)
- stafkarl m (“poor beggar”)
- sækarl m (“sea-carl”)
- trollkarl m (“male troll”)
- vagnkarl m (“wagoner”)
- varðkarl m (“warder”)
- vatnkarl m (“jug”)
- villukarl m (“heretic”)
- vitakarl m (“beacon watchman”)
- þorpkarl m (“churl”)
Descendants
- Icelandic: karl
- Faroese: kallur
- Norwegian: kall, kar
- Jamtish: kall, karr (< *karaz)
- Elfdalian: kall
- Old Swedish: karilʀ[1][2]
- Swedish: karl
- Danish: karl, kal
- Norwegian Bokmål: kall
- ⇒ Old Norse: Karl (given name)[3]
- Icelandic: Karl, Carl
- Faroese: Karl
- Norwegian: Karl, Carl
- Old Swedish: Karl
- Old Danish: Karl
- ⇒ Old Norse: Karli, Karle, Kalli (diminutive)
- → English: Karl, Carl
- → Finnish: Karl
- → Sami: Kárral
- → Middle English: carl
References
- “karl”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. Volume II. 237th page.
- Antiqvarisk Tidskrift för Sverige. Tionde Delen. 1887-1891. 305th page.
- Pfaff, Judith (2018). Nordic Names. Web.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish karilʀ, from Old Norse karl, from Proto-Norse ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (karilaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑːr/
audio (file) - Homophone: kar
Noun
karl c
- man (male human)
- Synonym: man
- Bra karl reder sig själv
- A good man manages on his own (proverb)
- 1970, “Sjörövar-Fabbe [Pirate Fabbe (pet form of Fabian)]”, Astrid Lindgren (lyrics), Georg Riedel (music):
- Sjörövar-Fabbe, farfars far, är minsann en sjusärdeles karl. Kring alla hav han far och far, tjohej hadelittan lej.
- Pirate Fabbe, my great-grandfather, is indeed a remarkable man [or "one hell of a man," except not vulgar]. Around all the seas he sails [goes/travels] and sails, tjohej hadelittan lej [nonsense phrase].
- 1972, Ted Gärdestad (lyrics and music), “Jag vill ha en egen måne [I want a moon of my own]”:
- Du har då aldrig trott på tårar. Det passar inte för en karl. Om man är över femton vårar, finns inga känslor kvar.
- You have never believed in tears [The "då" roughly works as an emphasizer: "Well, you have ..."]. It doesn't suit a man. If you are over fifteen years old [over fifteen springs], there are no feelings left.
- 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
| Declension of karl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | karl | karlen | karlar | karlarna |
| Genitive | karls | karlens | karlars | karlarnas |
See also
- manlig (“manly”)
References
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