ankare

See also: aṅkāre

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse akkeri. Cognate with Icelandic akkeri.

Noun

ankare n

1. (nautical) an anchor (tool to hook a vessel into sea bottom)
2. (Internet) anchor; an HTML/XHTML mark-up tag to define a position in a file, or a link to a URL.

Declension

Declension of ankare
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ankare	ankaret	ankare	ankarna
Genitive	ankares	ankarets	ankares	ankarnas

Synonyms

• ankar (in certain expressions)

Derived terms

• bogankare
• drivankare
• moringsankare
• murankare
• nyhetsankare
• stockankare
• varpankare

 

Related terms

• ankra
• förankra
• lätta ankar

Further reading

• ankare in Svensk ordbok.
• ankare in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• ekarna