krókur
Icelandic
/ˈkʰrouːkʏr/
noun
Definitions
- hook
- detour, indirection
- corner, nook
- (music) crook, bocal (of instruments in the oboe family such as the oboe d'amore, cor anglais, heckelphone, and baritone oboe)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse krókr (hook, bend, bight) inherited from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (hook, bend).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*krōkaz
Gloss
hook, bend
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acrook English
- crook English
- crookback English
- crookbacked English
- crookbill English
- crooked English
- crooken English
- crookery English
- crooketh English
- crookle English
- crookneck English
- cruckle English
- cybercrook English
- uncrook English
- *ger- Proto-Indo-European
- *gerg- Proto-Indo-European
- *greg- Proto-Indo-European
- krok Norwegian Bokmål
- *krōkaz Proto-Germanic
- *krōkilaz Proto-Germanic
- krok Norwegian Nynorsk
- *crōc Old English
- croke Middle English
- crouchen Middle English
- krókr Old Norse
- crochet Old French
- Sauðárkrókur Icelandic
- sauður Icelandic
- ár Icelandic
- krókur Faroese
- cro Norman
- kroker Old Swedish
- krōker, kroker Old Swedish
- *krōk Frankish
- krok Old Danish