kräkla
Swedish
Etymology
Constructed from krake + -la (“diminutive suffix”).
Noun
kräkla f
- diminutive of krake (“dry branch/trunk with spreading twigs”)
- whorl made from a small dry trunk with some twig stumps remaining at one end (the stirring bit)
- Synonym: grötkräkla
- a crosier (staff)
- Synonym: biskopsstav
- whorl made from a small dry trunk with some twig stumps remaining at one end (the stirring bit)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | kräkla | kräklas |
| definite | kräklan | kräklans | |
| plural | indefinite | kräklor | kräklors |
| definite | kräklorna | kräklornas |