jarl

From Old Norse jarl, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaz). Cognates include Old English eorl (English earl).

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)l

jarl (plural jarls)

1. (historical) A medieval Scandinavian nobleman, especially in Norway and Denmark.

From Old Norse jarl, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaz), from Proto-Germanic *erlaz, akin to Old English eorl (English earl).

• IPA^(key): /jartl/
• Rhymes: -artl

jarl m (genitive singular jarls, nominative plural jarlar)

1. jarl
2. earl (especially applied to nobles of Britain in modern times)

From Old Norse jarl

jarl m (definite singular jarlen, indefinite plural jarler, definite plural jarlene)

1. (historical) jarl (a title given to the highest noblemen in Norse times. Went out of use in the 14th century.)
2. an earl (British nobleman)

• “jarl” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse jarl

• IPA^(key): /jɑrl/

jarl m (definite singular jarlen, indefinite plural jarlar, definite plural jarlane)

1. (historical) jarl (a title given to the highest noblemen in Norse times. Went out of use in the 14th century).
2. an earl (British nobleman)

• “jarl” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Norse ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaz), from Proto-Germanic *erlaz.

jarl m (genitive jarls)

1. (poetic) a highborn, noble man or warrior
2. earl (in dignity next to the king)

• Old Danish: ierl
• → Danish: jarl (reborrowed)
• → English: jarl
• Faroese: jallur
• → Finnish: jaarli
• Icelandic: jarl
• Norwegian: jarl
• Old Swedish: iarl, iærl
  • Swedish: järl
• → Swedish: jarl (reborrowed)

• “jarl” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• jarl in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press