Noun: kar
Gender: Masculine, Neuter
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | karen; karet |
| Pl. | karane; kara |
Sample Sentences
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Frackare kar är æcki tæll uthi hela slire giæll (There’s no greater guy in the whole Slidre parish) [1647, “Heel j moht kär syskon baan”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 49:]
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Karr. Een Karll. (Karr. A guy.) [16xx, David Klim, Ordsamling fraa Robyggjelaget, published in Ældre norske Sprogminder, published 1911, page 29:]
Nouns inflected like kar
futhark,
bordell,
bankkvelv,
utedass,
reaktant,
himmelkvelv,
solgisl,
bjørnelås,
formannskap,
firkløver,
målstrek,
flykrasj,
rampestrek,
artefakt,
slektskap,
curriculum vitae,
storkenebb,
brorskap,
hengelås,
glidelås, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Doublet of kall. See: Old Norse Nouns '
karl'.
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