ankare
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse akkeri. Cognate with Icelandic akkeri.
Noun
ankare n
- an anchor (tool to hook a vessel into sea bottom)
- (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 |
Related terms
- nyhetsankare
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
- profligacy
- immorality
References
- Adams, Douglas Q. (1999) A dictionary of Tocharian B (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN