kerel

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See also: kêrel

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkeː.rəl/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ke‧rel
  • Rhymes: -eːrəl

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch kerel, carel, caerl, kerl, from Old Dutch *karl, *karal, *keril, from Proto-West Germanic *karil, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.

Cognate with German Kerl, Dutch Low Saxon keerl, West Frisian tsjirl, English churl, Danish karl.

Noun

kerel m (plural kerels, diminutive kereltje n)

  1. lad, fellow, bloke
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch kerle. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

kerel m (plural kerels, diminutive kereltje n)

  1. (historical or archaic) a long overgarment

References

  1. ^ Wörterbuch der Ostfriesischen Sprache. ten Doornkaat Koolman, J., Volume 2. 1879. 199th page.

Anagrams

Romani

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-
    Proto-Indo-European *-néwti
    Proto-Indo-Iranian *kr̥náwti
    Sanskrit कृ॒णोति॑ (kṛṇóti)
    Sanskrit क॒रोति॑ (karóti)
    Ashokan Prakrit 𑀓𑀭𑁄𑀢𑀺 (karoti)
    Prakrit 𑀓𑀭𑁂𑀇 (karei)
    Romani kerel

    Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑀭𑁂𑀇 (karei), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀓𑀭𑁄𑀢𑀺 (karoti), from Sanskrit क॒रोति॑ (karóti), from कृ॒णोति॑ (kṛṇóti), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kr̥náwti, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- + *-néwti. Cognate with Hindi करना (karnā), Punjabi ਕਰਨਾ (karnā), Nepali गर्नु (garnu), Gujarati કરવું (karvũ), Marathi करणे (karṇe), Bengali করা (kora), and Assamese কৰ (kor).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ke.ˈrel/, /kə.ˈrel/

    Verb

    kerel

    1. to do
      Na ʒanav so te kerav. ― I don't know what to do.
    2. to make, create, produce
      Morro dad kerdǎs o kazàn. ― My dad made the kettle.

    References

    • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “karṓti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 142
    • Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kerél”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 139b-140b
    • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “ker/el, -dǎs”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 192a
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