Noun: jarl
Sample Sentences
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There were three kinds of Viking: thralls, karls and jarls. Thralls were the slaves. They were owned by karls and jarls. [2016, Louise Spilsbury, “Powerful Kings and Suffering Slaves”, in The Vikings: Dig Up the Secrets of the Dead (History Hunters), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Raintree, →ISBN, page 18:]
Nouns inflected like jarl
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *erlaz
3. Proto-Norse ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaʀ)
4. Old Norse jarlbor.
5. English jarl
6. From Old Norse jarl, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaʀ). Cognates include Old English eorl. Doublet of earl and eorl. See: Old Norse Nouns '
jarl', Old English Nouns '
eorl'.