FromMiddle English erl erle Old English eorl Proto-West Germanic *erl Proto-Germanic *erlaz Old Saxon erl Old Norse jarl Proto-Germanic *erōną *arōną Old Norse jara ( “ fight, battle ” ) ).Doublet ofeorl jarl ealdorman ( “ alderman ” ) .
earl (plural earls
( nobility ) British orIrish nobleman next inrank above aviscount and below amarquess ; equivalent to aEuropean count . A female using the style is termed acountess .( entomology ) nymphalid butterflies of the genusTanaecia counts andviscounts .a British or Irish nobleman
Afrikaans:graaf (af) Armenian:կոմս (hy) ( koms ) Azerbaijani:qraf Belarusian:граф m ( hraf ) ,грап m ( hrap ) ,эрл m ( erl ) Bulgarian:граф m ( graf ) ,ерл m ( erl ) Catalan:comte (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:伯爵 (zh) ( bójué ) Cornish:yurl m Czech:hrabě (cs) m Danish:jarl c Dutch:graaf (nl) m earl m Esperanto:grafo (eo) Estonian:krahv (et) Faroese:jarl m Finnish:jaarli (fi) French:comte (fr) m earl (fr) m Georgian:ერლი (ka) ( erli ) ,გრაფი ( grapi ) German:Graf (de) m Earl (de) m Greek:κόμης (el) m ( kómis ) Hindi:अर्ल (hi) m ( arla ) Hungarian:gróf (hu) Icelandic:jarl (is) m Ido:komto (io) Irish:iarla (ga) m Italian:conte (it) m Japanese:伯爵 (ja) ( はくしゃく, hakushaku ) Khmer:ព្រះ (km) ( prĕəh ) Korean:백작(伯爵) (ko) ( baekjak ) Latin:comes m Latvian:grāfs m Lithuanian:grafas m Macedonian:ерл m ( erl ) ,гроф m ( grof ) Manx:eearley m Marathi:अर्ल m ( arla ) Middle English:erl Norwegian:Bokmål:jarl m greve (no) m Nynorsk:jarl m greve m Old English:eorl m Old Norse:jarl m Persian:اَرل ( arl ) Polish:earl (pl) m hrabia (pl) m Portuguese:conde (pt) m Romanian:conte (ro) m Russian:граф (ru) m ( graf ) ,эрл (ru) m ( erl ) ( in Anglo-Saxon England before Norman conquest ) Scottish Gaelic:iarla m Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:гро̏ф m Roman:grȍf (sh) m Slovak:gróf (sk) m Slovene:grof (sl) m Spanish:conde (es) m Swedish:jarl (sv) c Thai:เอิร์ล Ukrainian:граф m ( hraf ) ,ерл m ( erl ) Urdu:اَرْل m ( arla ) Vietnamese:bá tước (vi) (伯爵 Welsh:iarll m
^ Dobson, E. J. (1957 )English pronunciation 1500-1700 [1] Clarendon Press , published1968 ,→OCLC § 7 ,page470 :Earl is recorded withę̄ by Cooper, and withĕ by Hodges, Price, Poole, Stringer, Brown, andRS .Arel Elar Lare Lear Rael Raël Real lare lear rale real Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish earl Middle English erle erl Old English eorl Proto-Germanic *erlaz *erōną *arōną Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-
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earl ( British or Irish nobleman ) earl in Polish dictionaries at PWN
