måle
Danish
/mɔːlə/
verb
Definitions
- measure
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse mál (speech, language, matter, affair, size, measurement, time, meal, agreement, lawsuit, case) derived from Proto-Germanic *mēlą (time, measure, occassion, meal, measurement, sign, mark).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*mēlą
Gloss
time, measure, occassion, meal, measurement, sign, mark
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *meh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- mål Norwegian Bokmål
- *maþlą Proto-Germanic
- *mēlamiz Proto-Germanic
- *mēlą Proto-Germanic
- mål Swedish
- mål Norwegian Nynorsk
- māl Old English
- mǣl Old English
- mál Old Norse
- mæla Old Norse
- mål Danish
- målbar Danish
- målbarhed Danish
- måleusikkerhed Danish
- måling Danish
- usikkerhed Danish
- mál Icelandic
- mál Faroese
- 𐌼𐌴𐌻 Gothic
- *māl gmw-pro
- måhl Westrobothnian