klockare

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish klokkare, klukkare. By surface analysis, klocka (“bell”) +‎ -are (“-er”). Cognate of Norwegian and Danish klokker, German Glöckner, Finnish lukkari.

Noun

klockare c

  1. parish clerk and organist
  2. (historical) lay official at a church with responsibilities comparable to that of a sacristan, verger, sexton, beadle, or precentor

Declension

Declension of klockare
nominative genitive
singular indefinite klockare klockares
definite klockaren klockarens
plural indefinite klockare klockares
definite klockarna klockarnas

Derived terms

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.