hákarl
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Icelandic hákarl (“shark”).
Noun
[edit]hákarl (uncountable)
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse hákarl (“a shark”), há- (“marks fish of the shark kind”) + karl (“a man”). Related to háfur (“a dogfish”) and hár (“dogfish”).[1] Compare the Faroese hákallur[1] and Russian аку́ла (akúla).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hákarl m (genitive singular hákarls, nominative plural hákarlar)
- a Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus
- any shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish)
Usage notes
[edit]Declension
[edit]declension of hákarl
m-s1 | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hákarl | hákarlinn | hákarlar | hákarlarnir |
accusative | hákarl | hákarlinn | hákarla | hákarlana |
dative | hákarli | hákarlinum | hákörlum | hákörlunum |
genitive | hákarls | hákarlsins | hákarla | hákarlanna |
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See Icelandic hákarl. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. The Icelandic word comes from Old Norse, why should I have to see Icelandic for the etymology?
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hákarl m (genitive hákarls, plural hákarlar)
- a shark
Declension
[edit] Declension of hákarl (strong a-stem)
masculine | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hákarl | hákarlinn | hákarlar | hákarlarnir |
accusative | hákarl | hákarlinn | hákarla | hákarlana |
dative | hákarli | hákarlinum | hákurlum | hákurlunum |
genitive | hákarls | hákarlsins | hákarla | hákarlanna |
Descendants
[edit]- → Middle Dutch: haeye
- Icelandic: hákarl m (“Greenland shark”)
- Faroese: hákallur m (“basking shark”)
- Norn: håkilling m (“large shark”)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: håkall m (“Greenland shark”), ⇒ håkjerring (< hákerling)
- → Northern Sami: áhkạlakkis
- → Kildin Sami: а̄һклэӈӈк (āhkleŋŋk), а̄һклиӈӈк (āhkliŋŋk)
- → Skolt Sami: akkli
- → Middle Russian:
- Russian: аку́ла f (akúla)
- → Adyghe: акул (akʷul)
- → Azerbaijani: akula
- → Bashkir: акула (akula)
- → Belarusian: аку́ла f (akúla)
- → Bulgarian: аку́ла f (akúla)
- → Bezhta: акула (akula)
- → Kazakh: акула (akula)
- → Kyrgyz: акула (akula)
- → Macedonian: ајкула f (ajkula)
- → Tatar: акула (aqula)
- → Turkmen: akula
- → Ukrainian: аку́ла f (akúla)
- → Uyghur: ئاكۇلا (akula)
- → Uzbek: akula
- Russian: аку́ла f (akúla)
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