ankare

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse akkeri. Cognate with Icelandic akkeri.

Noun

ankare n

  1. an anchor (tool to hook a vessel into sea bottom)
  2. (Internet) anchor; an HTML/XHTML mark-up tag to define a position in a file, or a link to a URL.

Declension
Declension of ankare 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ankare ankaret ankare ankarna
Genitive ankares ankarets ankares ankarnas

Tocharian B

Etymology

From the intensive prefix e(n)- +‎ kare, the latter possibly from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire”), making it cognate with Latin cārus (“dear”).

Noun

ankare

  1. profligacy
  2. immorality

References
  • Adams, Douglas Q. (1999) A dictionary of Tocharian B (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10)‎, Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN
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