hákarl
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English
Etymology
From Icelandic hákarl (“shark”).
Noun
hákarl (uncountable)
Icelandic
Etymology
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
Noun
hákarl m (genitive singular hákarls, nominative plural hákarlar)
- a Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus
- any shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish)
Usage notes
Declension
| 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
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)
Old Norse
Etymology
From 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
Noun
hákarl m (genitive hákarls, plural hákarlar)
- a shark
Declension
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
- → 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)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)