Noun: kraken
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | kraken |
| Plural m | krakens |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like kraken
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Norwegian kraken (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), definite singular of krake (“sea monster”) (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), both from Old Norse kraki (“sea monster”, literally “something twisted”), from Proto-Germanic *krankaz (“crooked”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
kraki'.
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