Noun: krake
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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«Krake» er et forferdelig ſlags Siøtrol [...] med mange [G]rene ſom en Mandæter [...] naar [hand] handfæſter dem udi et Skib, det da med Top oc Taul ſkal ham underfølge. (Kraken [in Danish] is a kind of a terrible sea monster … with many arms like a jellyfish … when [he] fastens them into a ship, it will with its [mast] top and the ropes follow him into the depth.) [1646, Christen Jenssøn, Den Norſke Dictionarium eller Gloſebog, pages 67-68:]
Nouns inflected like krake
snerke,
satire,
sminkebørste,
sjanse,
slange,
sonate,
single,
skugge,
skruve,
skotte,
skjede,
skalle,
hovudskalle,
skandale,
arbeidsstyrke,
renessanse,
gullbarre,
opiumsvalmue,
grisunge,
luftslange, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Norse kraki.
2. (sea monster): First mentioned by Christen Jensøn in 1646 in his Norwegian dictionary, later by Hans Egede (1734), Erik Pontoppidan (1753) and Søren Richart Hagerup (1770-s). See: Old Norse Nouns '
kraki'.
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