*erlaz

Runic: ᛖᚱᛚᚨᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈer.lɑz/

noun · masculine · a-stem

Meanings

man, nobleman

Probably from *erǭ (‘battle’), with agentive suffix *-ilaz, thus meaning ‘one who makes war’ with eventual semantic change to ‘nobleman’.

*erl (Proto-West Germanic)
- erl (Old Saxon)
*erl (Proto-West Germanic)
- eorl (Old English)
  - erl, ærl, eerl, eorl, erle, eryl, ȝerle, ȝierl, yerl (Middle English)
    - earl (English)
    - yerl, yarl (Scots)
ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaʀ), ᛁᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (irilaʀ) (Proto-Norse)
- jarl, ᛁᛅᚱᛚ (iarl) (Old Norse)
  - jarl (English)
  - jallur (Faroese)
  - jaarli (Finnish)
  - jarl (Icelandic)
  - jarl (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  - iærl (Old Danish)
  - jarl (Swedish)
ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaʀ), ᛁᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (irilaʀ) (Proto-Norse)
- jarl, ᛁᛅᚱᛚ (iarl) (Old Norse)
  - jarl (Danish)
    - jarl (Norwegian Bokmål)
ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaʀ), ᛁᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (irilaʀ) (Proto-Norse)
- jarl, ᛁᛅᚱᛚ (iarl) (Old Norse)
  - iarl, iærl (Old Swedish)
    - järl (Swedish)
Eruli, Heruli (Latin)