count (male ruler of a county) · earl (a British or Irish nobleman)
köken: 伯 (“count”) + 爵 (“nobility title”). Originally, the third highest among the 五等爵 (Gotōshaku, “Five Ranks”) in China under the Zhou dynasty. Used as an equivalent to the concept of the European "count" after the Meiji Restoration, during the establishment of a new peerage system called 華族 (Kazoku).
köken: Unadapted borrowing from English earl, from Middle English erle, erl, from Old English eorl, from Proto-Germanic *erlaz, from *erōną, *arōną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-.
a companion, comrade, partner, associate · an attendant, a servant · a count, an earl
çekim: çoğul comitēs · tamlayan comitis
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Latin -es Latin comes From com- (“together”) + -es (“-faring”).
aile: abbacomes, burgicomes, comes hī̆rsūtus, comes prīncipālis, comes silvester, comitium, comitō, comitor
a count (ruler of a county) · an earl (a British or Irish nobleman)
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 伯爵, composed of 伯 (“duke”) and 爵 (“nobility rank”), literally "the rank of a count; county". Mainly refers to the European rank. The Chinese rank did not include the suffix 爵 (tước), thus simply 伯 (bá). See also công hầu bá tử nam.
count, graf, earl (nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess in some Western European countries and in pre-revolutionary Russia; ruler of a county)
çekim: çoğul гра́фове
köken: Heraldic title used in Western Europe (specifically among the dominions of the Holy Roman Empire), from German Graf. First attested in 1876.