renki
Finnish
attest
Definitions
- (chiefly) farmhand
- (obsolete) a boychild term of endearment "own son"
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish dräng derived from Old Norse drengr (young warrior, pole, log, boy) derived from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz (man, servant, staff, stake) derived from Norwegian dreng (thick stick, a boy, column, lad).
Origin
Norwegian
dreng
Gloss
thick stick, a boy, column, lad
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- isäntä Finnish
- isäntärenki Finnish
- kaappi Finnish
- kenkä Finnish
- kenkärenki Finnish
- palkka Finnish
- palkkarenki Finnish
- renginkaappi Finnish
- ryssän Finnish
- ryssänrenki Finnish
- saapas Finnish
- saapasrenki Finnish
- *drangijaz Proto-Germanic
- dräng Swedish
- trädgårdsdräng Swedish
- dreng Norwegian Nynorsk
- dreng Old English
- drengr Old Norse
- dreng Danish
- drengur Icelandic
- drongur Faroese
- reaŋga Northern Sami
- drænger Old Swedish
- dreng Norwegian
- renki Karelian