kræft
Danish
[ˈkʁ̥æfd̥]
noun
Definitions
- cancer disease
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German kreft inherited from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (cancer, crab) derived from Latin cancer (crab, a cancer, cancer, lattice, barrier, grid, tumor) derived from Ancient Greek καρκίνος (crab, cancer, crayfish).
Origin
Ancient Greek
καρκίνος
Gloss
crab, cancer, crayfish
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
癌
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Cancer English
- cancer English
- cancrine English
- cancrivorous English
- carcino- English
- *carcinus Latin
- cancer Latin
- cancriculus Latin
- cancriformis Latin
- cancrulus Latin
- Augenkrebs German
- Blasenkrebs German
- Blutkrebs German
- Darmkrebs German
- Knochenkrebs German
- Krebs German
- Krebsart German
- Krebsarzt German
- Krebsdiagnostik German
- Krebsentstehung German
- Krebserkrankung German
- Krebsforschung German
- Krebsforschungszentrum German
- Krebsmedizin German
- Krebstherapie German
- Lungenkrebs German
- Magenkrebs German
- Marmorkrebs German
- Prostatakrebs German
- krebsauslösend German
- krebserzeugend German
- krebskrank German
- carcino Italian
- carcino- Italian
- boomkreeft Dutch, Flemish
- heremietkreeft Dutch, Flemish
- kreeft Dutch, Flemish
- kreeftachtig Dutch, Flemish
- kreeftslak Dutch, Flemish
- rivierkreeft Dutch, Flemish
- zeekreeft Dutch, Flemish
- cancer French
- cancre French
- chancre French
- cáncer Spanish, Castilian
- καρκίνος Ancient Greek
- *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European
- *gerbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *grebʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *karkros Proto-Indo-European
- kreft Norwegian Bokmål
- câncer Portuguese
- *krabitaz Proto-Germanic
- eremitkräfta Swedish
- kräfta Swedish
- kräftskiva Swedish
- lyskräfta Swedish
- kreft Norwegian Nynorsk
- cancer Old English
- bekræfte Danish
- cancer Danish
- krebs Danish
- krebseklo Danish
- kræftpatient Danish
- kræftpind Danish
- patient Danish
- pind Danish
- chancre Old French
- càncer Catalan, Valencian
- կարկին Armenian
- cancer Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- Kanser Indonesian
- canker Middle Dutch
- creeft Middle Dutch
- crevet Middle Dutch
- crebiz Old High German
- krebiz Old High German
- kreef Afrikaans
- cancèr Norman
- krebz Middle High German
- *krabit gmw-pro
- *krevit Old Dutch
- kreft Middle Low German
- krevit Old Saxon
- càncer Occitan
- krævet Old Swedish
- *kankros Proto-Italic
- cáncer Asturian
- *krebit, *krabit Frankish
- *krebitja, *krabitjō Frankish
- kræfti Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
- krævs Scanian