háls
Icelandic
/hauls/
noun
Definitions
- neck, throat
- (pars pro toto) a person (used only in set phrases)
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse hals (neck).
Origin
Old Norse
hals
Gloss
neck
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Hawes English
- hawse English
- hawsehole English
- hawsepipe English
- hals Norwegian Bokmål
- *halsaz Proto-Germanic
- hals Swedish
- hals Norwegian Nynorsk
- halse Middle English
- hals Old Norse
- ᛋᚴᛅᚾᛘᛅᛚᛋ Old Norse
- Helsingør Danish
- hals Danish
- bindi Icelandic
- blaðra Icelandic
- blöðruhálskirtill Icelandic
- festi Icelandic
- hálsbindi Icelandic
- hálsfesti Icelandic
- hálskirtill Icelandic
- hálsmen Icelandic
- kirtill Icelandic
- men Icelandic
- hálsur Faroese
- hars Westrobothnian