drot
Danish
/drɔt/
noun
Definitions
- (archaic) king
Etymology
Inherited from Old Danish drotten inherited from Old Norse dróttinn (lord, leader) inherited from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz (leader, lord, chief).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*druhtinaz
Gloss
leader, lord, chief
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
長
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dright English
- drighten English
- ruhtinas Finnish
- *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- drott Norwegian Bokmål
- *druhtinaz Proto-Germanic
- drott Norwegian Nynorsk
- dryhten Old English
- drihten Middle English
- dróttinn Old Norse
- dróttning Old Norse
- yfirdróttning Old Norse
- dronning Danish
- drottinn Icelandic
- truhtin Old High German
- *druhtin gmw-pro
- drotin Old Swedish
- drotten Old Danish