spol
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
spol
- imperative of spole
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spuːɭ/
Noun
spol
- (dialectal, Eastern Norway) alternative form of spord (“fishtail”)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspɔl/
- Rhymes: -ɔl
- Syllabification: spol
Verb
spol
- second-person singular imperative of spolić
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spôːl/
Noun
spȏl m inan (Cyrillic spelling спо̑л)
- (usually Croatia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
- (usually Croatia) gender
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | spol | spolovi |
| genitive | spola | spolova |
| dative | spolu | spolovima |
| accusative | spol | spolove |
| vocative | spole | spolovi |
| locative | spolu | spolovima |
| instrumental | spolom | spolovima |
Derived terms
- spolni
Slovene
Etymology
Compare Old Church Slavonic полъ (polŭ, “gender, sex, half”), which derives from Proto-Slavic *polъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spɔ́l/
Noun
spȍl m inan
- sex, gender
- (grammar) grammatical gender
Declension
| Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | spòl | ||
| gen. sing. | spôla | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
spòl | spôla | spôli |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
spôla | spôlov | spôlov |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
spôlu | spôloma | spôlom |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
spòl | spôla | spôle |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
spôlu | spôlih | spôlih |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
spôlom | spôloma | spôli |
Further reading
- “spol”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025
Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Swedish sporþer, from Old Norse sporðr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)prend- (“to spring, rush”), see also Proto-Slavic *prę̀dati (“to jump, leap”).[1] Cognate to Norwegian Nynorsk spol, spor, spord.
Noun
spol
- (zoology, regional) tail for swimming (tail of a fish, seal, whale, snake, crustacean, even beaver)
- (zoology, regional) tailfin
References
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “sp(h)rend(h)-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 995-96