male servant, menial, especially on a farm · serf, subordinate, someone unfree who serves another · a soldier, often a mercenary, of the 15th to 17th centuries
a farmhand (hired agricultural worker) · a person hired to do menial or questionable tasks; a goon, a lackey, a stooge. · a male person who has not yet reached manhood; a boy.
çekim: çoğul drängar · tamlayan drängs
köken: From Old Swedish drænger (“young man, boy, servant”), from Old Norse drengr (“boy; log, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz. See also Danish dreng (“boy”).
aile: drängstuga, drängtjänst
drängen Alfred i Emil i Lönneberga
Efter skörden bjöd man drängarna på öl och nybakt kornbröd.
Din far var en av hemliga polisens betalda drängar.
wedge (simple machine) · wedge (five-sided polyhedron) · wedge (something that creates a division)
çekim: çoğul kiilat · tamlayan kiilan
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German kīl (“wedge”), possibly but not necessarily through Swedish kil (“wedge”). Even an older Proto-Germanic borrowing has been suggested, but this runs into phonetic difficulties (the Low German word derives from earlier *kīþla-).
köken: From Old Norse Karl, from karl (“free man”), originally a nickname. Popularized by the fame of Charlemagne (Karl in Danish), from the same Proto-Germanic source.