artell

Inherited from Latin articulus. Doublet of article, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ərˈteʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾˈteʎ]

artell m (plural artells)

1. knuckle; joint of a toe or a finger

• “artell”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• artel

From Russian арте́ль (artélʹ), cognate with English artel, used in Swedish since 1839.

artell n or c

1. an artel, a cooperative, a team of workers, soldiers or prisoners in pre-communist Russia (or Finland) who share a common household

   Ofta anställer artellen en kokerska.

   Often the artel employs a [female] cook.

   Ersättning åt arbetare, som ej tillhöra artelen, betalas ur en bildad fond liksom räntor och amorteringar.

   Compensation for workers, who don't belong to the artel, is paid from an accumulated fund just like interests and mortgages.

• SAOB lists the word as neutral (singular definite artellet) with the plural either arteller or artell. Nordisk familjebok says "De egentliga artellen". Other texts seem to use artellen as singular definite, indicating the common gender.
• Despite the common definition that limits the use to pre-communist Russia, some texts from the early 1930s also describe artels as a variant of collective farms.

• arbetarförening
• arbetslag
• kooperativ
• matlag

• artell in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Artell l. Artel in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1904)
• Artel l. Artell in Carl Magnus Ekbohrn, Förklaringar över 100,000 främmande ord och namn m.m. (1936)